Technical Lead

Understanding Recruitment
London, UK
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£130,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Computing Platforms Continuous Integration DevOps Distributed Systems Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Spring-boot Backend Kotlin Microservices

Job description

Hands-On Technical Lead (Kotlin)

💰 £130,000 + bonus + excellent Benefits

📍 Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone 1)

Want to manage and lead a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy?

Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?🌍🌱

Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK’s most exciting clean tech companies.

As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands-on with day-to-day coding. You’ll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. This opportunity is 70% hands-on and 30% people management and line manager responsibilities.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems.
  • Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)
  • Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset.
  • Collaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling, and system design.
  • Grow and shape your team

💻 Kotlin (JVM), Springboot, Ktor, AI tooling, AWS, distributed systems, microservices, CI/CD, modern engineering practices and methodologies

What They’re Looking For

  • Deep JVM/backend experience; Kotlin a bonus, but not required.
  • Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
  • Experience scaling production systems in fast-moving product environments.
  • Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management

Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact?

Apply now and help shape the future of clean energy at scale. 🚗🔌

Requirements

  • Deep JVM/backend experience; Kotlin a bonus, but not required.
  • Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
  • Experience scaling production systems in fast-moving product environments.
  • Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management

Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact?

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