Full Stack Tech Lead - TypeScript, React, AI tools - start-up

Richard Wheeler Associates
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 100K

Job location

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Mobile Application Software
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Prism (Software)
Next.js
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
TypeScript
Web Applications
Google Cloud Platform
React
Firebase
Expo.io
Backend
Google Cloud Functions
React Native

Job description

You'll be directly responsible for shipping critical code, while also mentoring other engineers, driving technical strategy, and ensuring the platform scales with rapid international growth. They deploy multiple times per day, and you'll need experience in a similar environ. Tens of thousands of customers rely on the code working instantly and reliably.

Further, you will be a key partner to the founders, translating business goals (eg US expansion) into a clear technical roadmap and high-quality, high-velocity execution., * Mobile Apps: their core customer apps where members buy the product (TypeScript, React Native, Expo)

  • Backend: (TypeScript, GCP/Firebase Cloud Functions, GCP Pub/Sub, Postgres, Prisma)
  • Web Apps: Customer-facing sign-up and account management portals. (TypeScript, React, Vercel)
  • Internal ERP: their 'mission control' for managing stock, customers, and operations. (TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel)

Requirements

  • Strong experience across the stack: TypeScript, React Native, React, Node, Postgres, GCP/Firebase.
  • A genuine full-stack mindset: happy working in the mobile app, web apps, backend, and writing SQL when needed.
  • Confident writing efficient, production-ready code - fast, reliable, observable, and easy to maintain.
  • Comfortable with a high-pace release culture (multiple deploys per day).
  • Product-focused, enabling you to empathise with users and steer feature development.
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in a fast-moving startup or product-led environment.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work in GMT-friendly time zones.
  • Deep practitioner of AI-powered SWE tools (Cursor, Windsurf, v0, etc.) and excited to push productivity to the limit.

Crucially, you will be able to translate the product goals and strategy into technical details by working well with founders, marketing team and product; manage your time effectively between managing other dev's output and still being a strong individual contributor; be technically strong in order to make sure the full stack is robust with minimal outages, bugs/ errors etc., This is an inflexion point for the business. The successful applicant will be pivotal in shaping the product and overall business, working closely with marketing - including providing feedback 'on the fly' - and customers. The work is exceptionally varied. You will be self-driven, used to taking ownership of your work, be motivated by the need to work hard! It is probable that you will have strong experience of a broadly similar position and enterprise.

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