Technical Lead

Join our global team as a Technical Lead, where you will be responsible for promoting quality and excellence in our web-based solution delivery. You will lead the development of assigned projects, translate business goals into a clear technical plan, and communicate progress to stakeholders. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, where you will plan, code, and review while being accountable for the technical outcome of the project team. You will also set the team's technical direction, own architecture and design decisions, and ensure coding standards and best practices are upheld.

Promote quality and excellence in web-based solution delivery, leading the development of assigned projects and translating business goals into technical plans.

Lead a team working in a heavily AI-tooled environment, using coding assistants and agents, while preserving codebase quality and maintaining guardrails for reliable AI output.

Experience establishing team practices from scratch on a new engagement

Responsibilities

• Set the team's technical direction, own architecture and design decisions across the composable stack, and uphold coding standards and best practices.
• A track record delivering corporate and enterprise-scale web properties: multi-site, multi-brand or multi-region platforms with high traffic, complex governance and many stakeholders
• Search, AEO and GEO: technical SEO, structured data, and structuring content so it performs in AI-driven search and answer engines
• Performance: Core Web Vitals, performance budgets, caching and CDN strategy, and image, font and script optimisation
• React: strong production experience, ideally with Next.js or a similar framework, covering SSR, SSG and ISR rendering strategies
• Integration development: REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, authentication (OAuth, SSO) and connecting a CMS to CRM, DAM, PIM, search and analytics platforms
• AI-assisted development: daily, fluent use of AI coding tools, with the judgement to review, test and reject their output so the codebase stays clean and maintainable

Requirements

Right to work in the UK

• Proven ability to turn a technical vision into a clear, actionable plan a team can execute
• 8+ years in software development, including at least 2 years leading a team's technical direction

Excellent communication with non-technical audiences

• Composable architecture: designing MACH-style (microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless) solutions and making sound build-versus-buy decisions
• Migrations: leading content or platform migrations at scale, using n8n or similar automation tools (e.g. Make, Zapier, custom ETL) as well as scripted approaches
• Engineering practice: Git workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment to platforms such as Vercel, Netlify, AWS or Azure
• Headless CMS: hands-on delivery with at least two of Sanity, Contentful,, Strapi or Webflow, including content modelling, editorial workflows, localisation and preview
• Node.js and TypeScript: building APIs, serverless functions, middleware and scripts
• Accessibility: in-depth knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, ARIA and semantic HTML, with hands-on assistive-technology testing
• Experience writing AI usage policies or engineering guidelines for a team
• Experience with commerce or search platforms in a composable stack (e.g. Shopify, commercetools, Algolia)

Preferred

• Consulting or agency experience, managing client relationships alongside delivery
• Certifications or partner experience with Sanity, Contentful or other composable vendors
• Familiarity with design systems and tools such as Storybook and Figma