Full Stack Team Lead

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead to join our engineering team. We value "T-shaped" engineers - you will not only be expected to be hands-on with code, but your responsibilities will also include architectural decision-making, mentoring, and ensuring delivery excellence.

You will lead the design and implementation of new features across our AWS-hosted backend, web, and mobile frontends. You will be a technical anchor for the team, championing best practices, optimising for scale and security, and helping team members grow.

Our Tech Stack

We operate a high-availability architecture on AWS.

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot.
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL (RDS / Aurora), Cassandra (DataStax / IBM Astra), SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ.
• Frontend: TypeScript (Angular), Bootstrap.
• Mobile: Native Android & iOS.
• Infrastructure: AWS, Linux, CI/CD., * Technical Leadership: Lead the design and development cycles. Make high-level architectural decisions and resolve complex technical blockers for the team.
• Mentorship & Growth: Foster a culture of excellence. Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews and technical planning.
• Architecture & Systems: Contribute to design, planning, and improvements to our overall system architecture.
• Operational Excellence: Development and support of the production environment, leveraging your Linux and networking knowledge to ensure reliability, security, and performance. Propose and implement change across the production environment.
• Mobile Strategy: Contribute to the technical direction of our mobile apps, bridging the gap between backend capabilities and native app requirements.
• Quality Standards: Champion clean code and automated testing. You will be the guardian of the codebase quality., * Java Ecosystem: Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework (Boot/Core).

• Modern Async Patterns: Experience with, or a strong desire to implement, Reactive Programming standards to improve system scalability and responsiveness.
• System Architecture: Strong experience designing scalable and complex distributed systems.
• Linux & Ops: Strong command of the Linux shell, systems administration, networking fundamentals, and security best practices.
• Frontend & Mobile Awareness: Solid understanding of TypeScript/Angular and the specific challenges of serving native mobile clients (Android/iOS).
• Databases: Deep understanding of data modeling for Relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra/Astra) stores.
• Leadership: Proven experience overseeing team members, managing technical debt, and driving
• Agile processes.

Desirable / Bonus Skills

• Mobile Development: Hands-on experience building native apps is a massive plus.
• Other Languages: Proficiency in other languages, especially Python (for scripting/automation).
• Cloud Architecture: Advanced AWS experience (Designing VPCs, IAM roles, EKS/ECS, CloudFormation or Terraform, etc.).
• Legacy Integrations: Familiarity with Apache CXF.
• DevOps Mindset: Experience setting up or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and build automation (Maven/Gradle).

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