Carousel Consultancy Ltd
Senior Tech Lead - FinTech
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Senior Tech Lead - PHP, Node.js, React, AWS - Successful FinTech - UK Remote-First – Highly Competitive Salary
We have a fabulous opportunity to join a successful FinTech as their Senior Tech Lead, on a UK remote-first basis.
Joining the engineering team that develops and maintains the technology that powers the entire fintech platform, the Senior Tech Lead will help drive architecture decisions and evolve the platform as the company scales.
This is a hands-on role that would suit Tech Leads who enjoy coding and technical ownership, solving complex problems, guiding team members and building reliable systems.
What’s on offer?
This is a great opportunity to join a scaling organisation where you will have the opportunity to shape platform architecture as the company grows and continue on your career trajectory. Joining an experienced team with strong autonomy, this is a remote-first role with the option to work from the London office.
Our client is offering a highly competitive salary, tech equipment of choice, 25 days annual leave + BH, pension scheme and private medical.
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Key responsibilities
- Designing and implementing robust solutions
- Reviewing code and advising on architecture decisions
- Resolving complex technical issues
- Working closely with the tech team to evolve the platform
- Designing scalable backend systems and services
- Shaping the platform architecture
- Enhancing the platform and DevOps - collaborating with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services, refining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling and supporting monitoring, scaling and reliability
- Leading technical discussions and design reviews
- And more!
The tech environment
Backend: PHP (Laravel, Syfony), JavaScript / TypeScript (Node.js, serverless services)
Frontend: React / TypeScript, React Native
Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda)
Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
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Skills and experience required
- Solid software engineering experience (c8+ years), working as a Senior, Staff, Principal Engineer or Tech Lead
- FinTech or regulated environment
- Strong backend and system design experience
- Solid understanding of AWS and cloud architecture
- PHP and/or NodeJS for backend development
- React / Typescript and/or React Native for frontend development
- Experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments
- Familiarity with Helm and CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to lead and mentor engineers
- Happy to be hands-on
- Collaborative nature
- Clear, confident communication skills
Interested in this Senior Tech Lead opportunity?
If you want to be considered for this fantastic opportunity then please ensure your CV showcases all your key skills and experience and submit it ASAP, quoting ‘AE - Senior Tech Lead - Fintech’
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