Technical Team Lead

JR United Kingdom; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Insurtech company in Central London seeks a Technical Team Lead to oversee a squad innovating on their flagship product. This role balances technical expertise and people leadership, contributing significantly to their ongoing transformation towards a product-focused, SaaS model. Ideal candidates have a strong background in team management and advanced knowledge of modern development practices.

Benefits

Extensive Benefits

10% Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team with at least 3 direct reports.
• Strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to various stakeholders.
• Ability to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability in system design.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guide system design decisions.
• Drive a DevOps culture, ensuring smooth CI/CD processes.
• Work with product managers to prioritize the roadmap.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

DevOps

System Design

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

AWS

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 being part of the technical leadership team for the 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 team's 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.