Skills

Leadership JavaScript C# CI/CD Kubernetes Architecture Autonomy Azure react .NET CI/CD Pipelines

Job Specifications

Technical Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer (Platform)

Technical Team Lead

London (Hybrid: 2-3 days per week)
£90,000-£110,000 + strong benefits

Our client is a fast-scaling, well-funded technology company building a platform used by some of the UK's best-known brands. They're now looking for a hands-on Technical Team Lead to drive the next phase of their engineering evolution.

This is a rare opportunity to own a major platform migration, influence long-term technical strategy, and step into a leadership role with a clear progression path toward CTO as the business scales.

If you love building high-quality software at scale, leading talented engineers, and making meaningful architectural decisions - this role is for you.

The Opportunity

As Technical Team Lead, you'll combine around 60% hands-on coding with strong technical leadership. You'll guide a growing team of engineers, define engineering standards, and work closely with partner agencies to deliver a modern, scalable SaaS platform.

You'll also play a pivotal role in a strategic migration away from legacy Service Fabric architecture toward a Kubernetes-based backend, helping to define the future technical foundation of the entire product suite.

This is a high-impact role where your decisions will genuinely shape the company's technology and growth trajectory.

What You'll Be Doing

Leading and mentoring a team of 3-6 engineers, with significant growth planned

Remaining deeply hands-on, contributing ~60% of your time to coding

Defining and owning the technical strategy for the Connect 2.0 platform migration

Architecting scalable backend systems using Kubernetes

Driving modern frontend development with React

Setting engineering standards and best practices across internal teams and partner agencies

Making key decisions across architecture, integrations, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure

Collaborating closely with product and leadership to influence roadmap and direction

Helping build a secure, high-performance, modern SaaS platform

What You'll Bring

Strong engineering background across backend (Kubernetes) and frontend (React)

Experience leading teams or mentoring engineers in a senior capacity

Proven experience designing, building, and scaling modern SaaS platforms

Solid cloud experience (Azure preferred)

Ability to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions

Confident communicator who works well across teams and with external partners

Pragmatic, hands-on mindset with a passion for quality engineering

Architectural experience - or clear ambition to move into a broader strategic role

Tech Stack

Backend: Kubernetes, C#, .NET

Frontend: React, JavaScript

Infrastructure: Azure, Cosmos DB, modern CI/CD pipelines

Legacy: Service Fabric (during transition only)

Why This Role Stands Out

Ownership of one of the company's most strategic technical initiatives

Real autonomy and influence over engineering and product direction

A growing team with clear leadership responsibility

Defined progression toward a CTO-level role

Well-funded, scaling business with strong momentum

Hybrid working: 2-3 days per week in a London office

Competitive salary: £90,000-£110,000 + strong benefits

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

About the Company

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