Technical Team Lead

JR United Kingdom; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Insurtech company is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide a squad on their flagship product. This role blends hands-on technical expertise with significant people leadership, aimed at modernising their architecture towards a product-focused, SaaS model. Join a dynamic team embedded within a larger, stable organisation, driving innovative change in the insurance sector.

Benefits

Extensive Benefits

10% Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team (minimum of 3 direct reports).
• Experience mentoring and fostering a culture of ownership.
• Ability to balance system design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a squad of 6 engineers on flagship product.
• Drive CI/CD process improvements.
• Collaborate with product managers on roadmap items.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

DevOps culture

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS services

Job description

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?Extensive Benefits and 10% bonus

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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 and be part of the technical leadership team for the business vertical.

The tech stack includes 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 and fostering a culture of ownership
• Providing technical leadership and guiding system design decisions
• Collaborating with product managers to prioritize roadmap items
• Driving a DevOps culture, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes, and improving deployment efficiency
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Ability to make system design decisions balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability