Technical Leader

Parser Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Hybrid work model

Travel perks

Job summary

Parser is seeking a Technical Lead in London to combine deep technical expertise with strong engineering leadership. You will stay hands-on with the codebase while guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

In this role, you’ll translate business requirements into robust technical designs, review code, drive best practices, and collaborate closely with product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java/Kotlin and modern backend frameworks.
• Hands-on coding experience and ability to review complex designs.
• Strong grasp of distributed systems, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide confident technical leadership and guidance to engineers.
• Stay hands-on with the codebase and contribute when needed.
• Lead architectural reviews and drive design decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into robust solutions.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

REST APIs

React JS

AWS

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

TDD

DevOps

Distributed systems design

Job description

Technical Lead

Who is Parser?

Technology alone does not create impact—the right teams do. Founded in 2018, Parser is a boutique technology services and consulting firm helping global organisations solve complex business challenges through digital transformation, product development and AI enablement.

We are a fast-growing team of 340+ engineers and consultants across Europe (UK, Spain, Portugal), the Americas (US, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia), and the Middle East. We combine global reach with a mindset focused on agility, senior expertise, and close collaboration.We work as an extension of our clients’ teams, helping them define the right problems, shape solutions, and deliver technology-driven outcomes that create measurable business value. Our expertise spans software engineering, AI & data, product development, and customer experience, delivered by teams that combine strong technical depth with a consulting mindset.

Why Join Us?

If you are looking for a place where you can think beyond execution, take true ownership of outcomes, influence decisions, and continuously learn alongside top-tier specialists in a truly global environment, we’d love to meet you.

How will you impact?

As a Technical Leader, you'll combine deep technical expertise with strong engineering leadership.

You’ll be expected to be hands-on and actively involved in the codebase, while providing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions.

Your key responsibilities:

• Provide confident technical leadership and guidance to engineers, helping the team make sound technical decisions and solve complex engineering problems.
• Stay hands-on with the codebase, contributing to implementation, debugging, technical investigations, and complex engineering challenges when needed.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring high standards for code quality, maintainability, security, performance, and testability.
• Lead architectural reviews and technical design discussions, challenging assumptions and helping the team make pragmatic, scalable architecture decisions.
• Own and evolve technical standards and engineering practices, promoting consistency across the codebase and development teams.
• Identify and manage technical dependencies, including library, framework, service, and platform dependencies, ensuring they remain secure, supported, and aligned with our technology strategy.
• Mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, constructive feedback, and coaching.
• Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and identify technical risks and trade-offs early.
• Drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, security, and resilience across our systems.
• Identify and manage technical debt, prioritizing improvements that provide meaningful value to the team and the product.
• Promote engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry practices, evaluating when new technologies can provide meaningful improvements to our products and engineering processes.

What you'll bring to the role:

We value confidence, technical curiosity, creativity, and a passion for building great products. We're looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership, making decisions, challenging ideas constructively, and getting into the details when required.

While we don't believe in rigid checklists, experience or interest in the following areas is a plus:

• Strong software engineering experience, particularly with Java, Kotlin, or other modern programming languages.
• Strong backend development experience, including Spring Framework / Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.
• Strong hands-on engineering skills, with a willingness and ability to contribute directly to production code.
• Experience designing and reviewing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers, with the ability to influence and provide direction without relying on formal authority.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as React JS is desirable.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, with AWS preferred.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, TDD, DevOps, observability, and automated quality gates.
• Confident communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical decisions, challenge assumptions, and explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Pragmatic technical judgment, balancing long-term architectural goals with business priorities and delivery constraints.
  

As a Team, We Love To:

• Build reliable, scalable systems that empower millions of travellers.
• Keep our codebase clean and our architecture elegant.
• Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews, technical standards, and continuous improvement.
• Learn from each other, share knowledge, mentor, and grow together.
• Take ownership of technical challenges and solve them collaboratively.
• Celebrate wins, reflect on misses, and always aim higher.
• Use our travel perks to explore the world.

Location:

• Candidates based in UK/London: Hybrid model, 2-3 days per week in the office at Angel, London

You will receive:

• The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
• The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.
• A highly competitive compensation package.
  
• Private medical insurance.

Parser is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to support your participation.

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Parser may use AI-assisted tools during certain stages of the recruitment process to support operational efficiency. Our recruiting teams use AI to streamline note-taking and scheduling. All hiring decisions are made by people, with human review and oversight.

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