About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 110,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or Senior Engineer with significant technical ownership
- Strong hands-on development skills with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience building APIs, backend services and cloud-based applications
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue
- Solid understanding of system design, databases, performance and scalability
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, as well as CI/CD and production monitoring
- Track record of improving existing systems while continuing to deliver useful features
- Approachable leadership style, with experience mentoring engineers and working across teams
- Experience modernising platforms, building event-driven systems or supporting distributed engineering teams would be valuable
- Interest in building useful technology with a positive impact; previous care-sector experience is not essential
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery from initial design through development, release and ongoing operation
- Stay hands-on with coding, architecture and code reviews
- Evolve the platform, balancing new features with reliability, maintainability and technical debt
- Coach engineers and encourage collaborative problem-solving
- Work with product and business stakeholders to turn user needs into practical technical solutions
- Improve development workflows, automated testing, deployment processes and monitoring
- Make clear technical decisions and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues
Technologies
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Frontend
- JavaScript
- React
- TypeScript
- Vue
- NodeJS
More
We are recruiting a Technical Lead Engineer for a tech-for-good business developing software for the care sector. This role combines technical leadership, practical engineering and social purpose, with the opportunity to shape technical direction while staying close to the code. The product supports people who deliver care. The salary is £100,000–£110,000 plus benefits, with hybrid working that includes two days per week in London. We are working with Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited, which is acting as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
last updated 46 week of 2026