Technical Lead

Prenetics; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Prenetics, Hong Kong-based health tech leader, seeks a Technical Lead to own architecture and delivery for our DTC and subscription platforms. You will lead a small, high-caliber team while remaining hands-on where it matters most, ensuring fast, reliable, scalable releases across Shopify and ERP integrations.

You will balance speed today with maintainability tomorrow, mentor engineers, and partner with product, design, growth, and ops to drive data-driven decisions and secure system health at

Qualifications

• Personally owned production systems at scale or clear trajectory explained concisely.
• Hands-on leadership with continued code shipping.
• Strong across a modern web and cloud stack (TypeScript/Node, React, Python, AWS/GCP).
• Shipped consumer-facing or ecommerce products under real-world load.
• Data-driven decisions with metrics and instrumentation.
• Able to operate in ambiguity and shape playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability of order, subscription, and inventory data flows across Shopify, ERP, and fulfillment partners.
• Own end-to-end architecture and delivery for product lines across web, subscription, and data.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions balancing speed and maintainability.
• Lead and mentor engineers; set code quality, testing, and CI/CD standards.
• Recruit and grow the team as business scales.
• Instrument uptime, latency, conversion, renewal; prioritize by data.
• Partner with Growth on data foundation; ensure clean data to ad platforms.
• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term prevention.

Skills

Shopify Plus

Full-stack development

TypeScript/Node

React

Python

AWS/GCP

Data-driven

Leadership

E-commerce

CI/CD

Tools

Skio

Klaviyo

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Shopify Plus architecture

Job description

IM8 is a next-generation health and longevity brand co-founded by David Beckham and Prenetics (NASDAQ: PRE), on a mission to make world-class nutritional science accessible to everyone. Launched in late 2024, IM8 grew Q1 2026 revenue nearly 6x year-over-year to $33.8M, and the company has raised full-year 2026 IM8 revenue guidance to $190M–$210M. Over 60% of revenue is generated outside the US. We ship to 43 countries, and our athlete partner roster includes David Beckham, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Aryna Sabalenka, Ollie Bearman, and Inter Miami CF.

We are built on science, not story — our flagship Daily Ultimate Essentials carries 90 active ingredients, we run randomized controlled trials on our products, and we hold a clinical-grade standard in a category notorious for shortcuts.

Our business is subscription at its core. Every basis point of NRR we add compounds — into LTV, into payback, into the ability to outspend everyone else on acquisition. Retention isn't a department at IM8. It is the model.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Technical Lead, based in Hong Kong, to own the architecture and delivery of the platforms behind our DTC and subscription business: Shopify Plus at the core, our subscription engine (Skio), lifecycle marketing (Klaviyo), ERP (Microsoft Dynamics 365), and 3PL integrations across US, EU, UK and HK warehouses. You will set technical direction, lead a small, high-caliber team, and stay hands‑on in the code that matters most.

Your mandate: make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and built to scale - every release, every customer, every market.

What You'll Do

Technical Ownership & Architecture

• Own the reliability of order, subscription, and inventory data flows across Shopify, ERP, and fulfillment partners, including scaling, monitoring, alerting, and failure recovery.
• Own end‑to‑end architecture and delivery for one or more product lines across web, subscription, and data.
• Make pragmatic build‑vs‑buy and system‑design decisions that balance speed today with maintainability tomorrow.
• Own reliability, performance, and security across your services.

Hands‑On Delivery

• Stay in the code - review, unblock, and ship the hard parts yourself.
• Set and enforce the bar for code quality, testing, and CI/CD.
• Turn ambiguous product goals into shippable technical roadmaps.

Team & Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers; raise the standard through how you build, not just what you say.
• Partner daily with product, design, growth, and ops to sequence what gets built and why.
• Recruit and grow the team as the business scales.

Data, Reliability & Accountability

• Instrument what matters - uptime, latency, conversion, renewal - and use it to prioritise, not vibes.
• Partner with Growth on the marketing data foundation. Ensure clean, complete event and product data flows to ad platforms (server‑side tracking, conversion APIs, catalog feeds).
• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and long‑term prevention.
• Report clearly on delivery, risk, and technical health to leadership.

What We're Looking For

Non‑Negotiable

• Delivery credentials. You have personally owned production systems at meaningful scale - or a clear, specific reason why that benchmark doesn't apply to your trajectory. If you can't make that case in a sentence, this isn't your role.
• Hands‑on leadership. You have led or mentored engineers while still shipping code yourself. You are not a manager who stopped building.
• Full‑stack depth. Strong across a modern web and cloud stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node, React, Python, AWS/GCP), with real system‑design judgment.
• Consumer‑scale experience. You have shipped consumer‑facing or e‑commerce products under real‑world load.
• Data‑driven. You drive decisions and accountability with metrics and instrumentation, not opinion.
• Builder mindset. Comfortable with ambiguity, fast decisions, and shaping the playbook rather than inheriting one.
• Communication. You align technical and non‑technical stakeholders without friction.
• Shopify Plus depth. You have operated a high‑volume Shopify Plus stack in production: checkout extensibility, app ecosystem architecture, multi‑currency selling.

Nice to Have

• Experience in health‑tech, DTC, or subscription/ecommerce environments.
• Subscription platform experience (Skio, Recharge, or similar).
• Experience running structured experimentation programs: prioritizing and measuring tests and working with storefront developers who ship them.
• Experience building AI/ML‑driven product features.

You Must Be AI‑Native

Active, fluent daily AI tool usage is mandatory, not optional. We expect you to be embedding AI into every workflow you touch on day one.

Beat Claude Challenge

Shortlisted candidates complete a role‑specific assignment, scored against a baseline we generate using Claude — same data, blind review. To advance, your thinking needs to be better than what the best AI produces. Ties don't advance.

Want to stand out? Head to our GitHub repo and submit your Beat Claude challenge: https://github.com/Prenetics/beat-claude

Join us to make a huge impact as we revolutionize healthcare. The thing we most value is working with talented, growth‑minded people, who don’t hesitate to jump into creative problem solving. We don’t believe in up or out, we don’t believe in rest and vest. We want to give you the opportunity to grow with us. Neither your career nor Prenetics is a sprint — they’re both marathons.

In our hiring process, we look at building a team with three essential factors: adaptability, ability and passion. We’ve discovered the greatest achievements come from the right people working collaboratively towards a shared goal. As Prenetics and our vision continues to grow, you’ll have the opportunity to constantly change and evolve with us.