Tech Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Tech Lead based in United Kingdom.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Tech Lead to take ownership of technical direction, execution, and team leadership within a fast-growing, post-Series A startup.

You’ll work closely with the founding team and play a central role in shaping engineering priorities and delivering high-impact products.

A major focus will be leading greenfield initiatives powered by Large Language Models and modern AI technologies.

The role combines technical leadership with people and process management, while remaining strongly hands-on - with around 75% of your time spent close to the code.

You’ll help solve challenging engineering problems across a modern, scalable sales technology platform used by rapidly growing businesses.

You’ll also act as a key bridge between engineering and product, ensuring effective collaboration across multiple initiatives.

This role offers an excellent path for a strong technical leader looking to develop toward an Engineering Manager position.

Accountabilities

• Partner closely with the founders to define engineering priorities, execution plans, and technical direction.
• Serve as a key link between engineering and product, maintaining alignment across teams and parallel projects.
• Lead greenfield projects from concept through delivery, including products and capabilities powered by LLMs and AI technologies.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers while maintaining a high standard for engineering quality.
• Plan and facilitate engineering sprints to enable predictable, efficient, and high-quality delivery.
• Remain hands-on with the codebase, contributing through coding, code reviews, debugging, architecture, and platform improvements.
• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges while improving system stability, scalability, and performance.
• Build and grow a high-performing engineering team, taking ownership of the recruitment process from sourcing through hiring.
• Support engineers’ professional development through regular feedback, mentorship, and meaningful growth opportunities.
• Contribute to broader engineering practices, processes, and initiatives across the organization.

Requirements

• Several years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience taking technical ownership of projects or teams.
• Previous experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Engineer with leadership responsibilities, or in a comparable technical leadership position.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to remain hands-on, with a willingness to spend significant time coding, reviewing changes, and debugging.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and a genuine interest in helping others grow.
• Previous people-management or team-leadership experience is highly valued, particularly for candidates looking to progress toward an Engineering Manager role.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and leadership.
• Experience delivering complex projects in fast-paced environments and coordinating multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Familiarity with AI, Large Language Models, NLP, or other modern AI technologies is a strong advantage.
• Ability to reason about system architecture, scalability, reliability, and engineering trade-offs.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, or similar technologies is welcome, but direct experience with this specific stack is not required.
• A pragmatic, ownership-oriented mindset and the ability to balance technical excellence with business and product priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Health insurance.
• Stock options.
• Remote working opportunity within the eligible region.
• Flexible, distributed working environment.
• Opportunity to work on greenfield products involving LLMs and modern AI technologies.
• Significant technical ownership and direct exposure to company leadership.
• Strong opportunities for professional growth, including a potential path toward Engineering Management.
• Collaborative and technically ambitious startup environment.
• Annual company trip to a secret destination.
• Inclusive workplace committed to valuing skills, knowledge, personality, and diverse backgrounds.