Technical Team Lead

JR United Kingdom; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Insurtech company seeks a Technical Team Lead to manage a squad of engineers focused on SaaS product development. This role encompasses both technical leadership and team management, ensuring high performance and efficiency in system design. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background and proven leadership capabilities.

Benefits

Extensive benefits

10% bonus

Flexible work location

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team with a minimum of 3 direct reports.
• Strong communicator able to explain technical concepts to various stakeholders.
• Experience driving system design decisions ensuring scalability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a squad of 6 working on flagship product with hands-on technical expertise.
• Report to Director of Engineering, part of the technical leadership team.
• Drive a DevOps culture, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team mentoring

Communication

System design

DevOps culture

Tools

Java21

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS services

Job description

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??InsurTech | AI-Powered B2B/B2C SaaS

Technical Team Lead - We have been engaged by a leading Insurtech company to find a Technical Team Lead to oversee a squad of 6 working on their flagship product. Backed by a well-established global parent company, they operate with the agility of a scale-up while enjoying the stability of a larger organisation. Their technology powers underwriting and protection marketplaces, helping insurers and advisors streamline processes and deliver better outcomes for customers.

They are undergoing a multi-year transformation, modernising their architecture and shifting towards a product-focused, SaaS model.

The role of Tech Lead is a combination of hands-on technical expertise (30%) and people leadership (70%). You will report into the Director of Engineering being part of the technical leadership team for business vertical.

The tech stack consists of Java21, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm and various AWS services.

Requirements

• Experience leading an engineering team/squad (minimum of 3 direct reports)
• Experience mentoring engineers while fostering a culture of ownership
• Providing technical leadership and guiding system design decisions
• Working with product and your teams product manager to ensure the most important things hit the roadmap.
• Driving a DevOps culture, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes and improving deployment efficiency.
• We're looking for a strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to different audiences and stakeholders.
• Ability to drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability.