Technical Lead

Tech Lead

Manchester (Hybrid)

 £85,000 - £95,000 + Bonus + Additional Benefits

The Business 

This is one of the world's most renowned financial services organisations. They have just received significant investment to grow the Manchester function and are now looking for technical leads to support that growth. 

The Role

This is an opportunity to support a brand new team and a relatively new office. Shaping the culture and the team will be at the heart of this role. 

You'll work across the full stack, build the technical roadmap and curate the technical strategy. All whilst remaining very hands-on day-to-day in the code. 

Key responsibilities:

• Drive engineering best practices and technical standards
• Reduce technical debt and improving the platform performance
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions 
• Designing scalable solutions alongside the Architecture team
• Mentor and coach engineers
• Involved in the code day to day

About You

• Strong full-stack development experience (Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Node.js, Python or similar)
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS preferred, Azure/GCP welcome)
• Experience mentoring and influencing technical teams
• Exposure to AI tools and technologies such as Claude and Gemini
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Knowledge of microservices, distributed systems and modern architectures
• Experience with CI/CD and modern engineering practices

If you'd like to be part of a brand new team, with a chance to shape the engineering culture, this role could be for you.