Angular Technical Lead
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Job description
The Technical Lead plays a pivotal role in modernising the Magentus healthcare radiology software portfolio which is a collection of Angular web apps with a Java backend. We are looking for an experienced engineer with proved experience in Angular, Storybook, Typescript and ideally Java. Experience in health-tech will be advantageous but not essential.
This is a key role to support and drive our journey into: event driven SOA; multi-tenancy; CICD; component standardisation; shift left of quality and driving full ownership of the software delivery lifecycle.
True leadership is a key part of the role, and a successful candidate must have a proven track record in leading and shaping a team, investing through technical guidance, mentoring, seasoned in Agile, Kanban, Lean.
What You'll Be Doing
Technical Leadership:
- Lead a squad with a delivery team in the UK and one offshore working alongside the Product Manager, Delivery Lead, other Team Leads and Architects.
- Guide the development of our suite of Angular Applications to reach feature parity with our legacy Java application.
- Define and enforce modern engineering and architectural guardrails across teams.
- Be hands-on, leading by example, pairing, reviewing designs, prototyping, and mentoring through reusable software patterns and real code.
- Champion clean architecture, automated testing, and DevOps practices (e.g., CI/CD, observability, IAC).
- Coach teams on modern engineering practices and support their journey into leveraging the benefits of AI and spec driven development.
Solution Design & Cloud Architecture:
- Design robust, scalable software solutions for deployment on AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3).
- Establish the reference architecture and migration roadmap for the modernised platform.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical direction with product goals.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native and serverless patterns.
- Support our infrastructure team in delivering Infra-as-code (AWS CDK/Terraform) and observability into delivery workflows.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning across EMEA tech teams.
Influence & Mentoring:
- Act as a trusted technical partner to engineers and managers, shaping design decisions and reducing complexity.
- Provide coaching and feedback to strengthen technical capability and delivery quality.
- Champion emerging technologies to maximise engineer contribution, delivery capability and customer value.
- Identify technical skill gaps and support continuous learning opportunities across the department.
Requirements
- Deep Angular expertise (5+ years in senior and lead roles), including modern frameworks, with experience scaling enterprise-grade systems.
- Experience in translating Figma designs to standardised components built in Storybook.
- Well versed in implementing tooling to ensure code quality, test coverage, accessibility standards, security compliance.
- Proven experience transforming legacy or monolithic systems into modular event-based architectures - ideally using Kafka.
- Hands-on AWS expertise (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation/CDK), including designing cost-efficient, secure deployments and observability pipelines.
- Experienced in CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, designing reusable workflows, integrating automated testing, security and observability into deployment pipelines.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Confidence with containerisation and observability tools.
Beyond technical excellence, this role demands curiosity, coaching ability, and the pragmatism to guide teams through large-scale change.
Benefits & conditions
Why Join Magentus?
Compensation package:
- Up to £90,000 per annum
- Annual renumeration review and performance bonus programme
- £250 annual home-working allowance
Hybrid Working
- Three days a week in our London (Farringdon) office, and two days from home.
Our Leave Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing with service
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Your birthday off
- Option to swap a public holiday for a religious holiday of your choice
- Pawrental Leave to welcome new pets
- Up to two paid volunteering days per year
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Leave
Protection and Wellbeing:
- Income Protection & 4x Death in Service
- Private healthcare with BUPA (discounted family cover available)
- Mental health & wellbeing support via Employee Assistance Programme
- Free flu jabs + paid time off to give blood
- Enhanced sick pay
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Magentus Software Limited is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees feel valued and respected.
