Tech Lead – Integrations (Hands-On)

🌳🌳🌳 Tech Lead – Integrations (Hands-On) | API / Backend

| Up to £80,000 + Excellent Benefits 🌳🌳🌳

Multiple hires

Are you an experienced Tech Lead or Senior Software Engineer who enjoys staying close to the code while leading a high-performing team?

We're partnering with a market-leading, product-led technology business that's transforming a sector where technology genuinely improves people's lives. As they continue to scale, they're looking for an experienced Tech Lead – Integrations to take ownership of a critical platform responsible for synchronising data across core products and third-party integrations.

This is a genuine 70% hands-on engineering / 30% leadership role where you'll shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and build scalable, high-performance integration services used at significant scale.

💻 What you'll be doing

• Leading a small team of approximately four engineers
• Remaining hands-on with development (around 70% coding)
• Owning the technical direction and architecture of the integrations platform
• Designing and building scalable API-driven backend services
• Making pragmatic architectural decisions around scalability, reliability and maintainability
• Driving engineering best practices through code reviews, testing and automation
• Acting as the technical escalation point within the squad
• Working closely with Product and QA to deliver high-quality software
• Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers
• Supporting hiring, onboarding and the continued growth of the engineering team

⚙️ Tech Environment

Backend: PHP (Symfony), Python

Frontend: Vue.js (headless integrations)

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

You'll be working on large-scale distributed systems handling thousands of requests per minute, integrating multiple platforms and managing datasets containing hundreds of millions of records, with performance, resilience and scalability at the heart of everything.

🌟 What we're looking for

• Experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer or similar technical leadership role
• Strong experience building API-driven backend systems
• Passion for remaining hands-on whilst leading a team
• Excellent understanding of scalable architecture and object-oriented design
• Experience working across production full-stack applications
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• A collaborative, pragmatic engineering mindset focused on delivering quality software

➕ Nice to have

• Experience working with high-throughput or data-intensive platforms
• Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture experience
• Exposure to integration platforms or distributed systems
• Experience working within complex or regulated industries

🎁 What's on offer

• Up to £80,000 salary
• Fully remote working across the UK
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Additional birthday leave
• Private medical insurance
• Pension
• Health & wellbeing support, including 24/7 GP access and Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid volunteering days
• Ongoing learning, training and career development
• Collaborative engineering culture with genuine technical ownership

🚀 Why apply?

This is an opportunity to:

• Lead a business-critical integration platform
• Stay genuinely hands-on while progressing your leadership career
• Influence architecture, engineering standards and technical strategy
• Work on high-scale distributed systems with real engineering challenges
• Join a product-led business where engineering is central to the company's continued growth and success

📅 Interviewing now – apply today to be part of the next stage of growth.