Technical Lead - Liverpool

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services, APIs, integrations and data flows
• Provide architectural guidance across the wider engineering team
• Remain hands-on with development while shaping the future of a modern, large-scale platform
• Work across the full stack, including modern frontend technologies and cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with Product teams, stakeholders and fellow engineers
• Help establish engineering standards and influence development processes
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and spec-driven development approaches
• Provide technical mentorship across the team
• Influence technology decisions and long-term platform strategy

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• Cloud
• Frontend
• GCP
• React
• TypeScript
• NodeJS
• JavaScript

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We are an established technology-led organisation investing heavily in the future of our engineering function as part of a major platform transformation programme. We offer a senior, AI-first engineering environment where you can shape technical strategy, platform direction and engineering standards. This is a hybrid role with two days per week in our Liverpool city centre office, and we also offer an annual training and conference budget, private healthcare, a company bonus scheme, investment in modern tooling and AI-powered development platforms, and an active social and charity events calendar.

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Experience with React and Next.js
• Proven track record designing and delivering scalable software architectures
• Cloud experience across Azure, AWS or GCP
• Strong understanding of API design, integrations and distributed systems
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers
• Passion for modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering best practice