Technical Lead: TS/Node.js on AWS & Serverless

Acquire; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer architecture and technical direction while continuing to write production code. The role blends leadership with coding, owning the delivery of large-scale ecommerce migrations and new digital products.

You’ll balance architecture work with mentoring, working across features like personalisation, AI-powered search, and customer-facing tools, collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver scalable, performant

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of delivery squads and architecture ownership.
• Strong TypeScript/Node.js development experience.
• Hands-on with serverless on AWS and modern frontend.
• Experience with headless ecommerce, MACH/composable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad's technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Design scalable architectures and guide migrations.
• Remain hands-on with TypeScript/Node.js and AWS.
• Build and integrate APIs and services, mentor engineers.

Skills

AWS

APIs

Microservices

Frontend development

Web performance

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

SQS

Commercetools

Job description

Acquire in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer architecture and technical direction while continuing to write production code. The role blends leadership with coding, owning the delivery of large-scale ecommerce migrations and new digital products.

You’ll balance architecture work with mentoring, working across features like personalisation, AI-powered search, and customer-facing tools, collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver scalable, performant