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🌷This is one for the Technical Leads! | Technical Lead Backend Distributed Systems | Hybrid 2 x a week London | £100 - £120k + bonus + benefits 🔥| Fintech 💵 |
We're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to join an engineering team building complex, real-time backend systems where performance, reliability, and correctness are critical.
This is a highly technical role suited to someone who still enjoys solving complex engineering problems, leading architectural decisions, and raising engineering standards across a senior development team 🔥
Essential Requirements:
- Proven experience designing and owning backend architecture for complex production systems
- Strong background building real-time, distributed, or event-driven applications
- Excellent understanding of transactional systems, concurrency, race conditions, locking, idempotency, or consistency
- Commercial experience with AWS and cloud-native services such as Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, or Kafka
- Solid SQL and data modelling skills with experience designing scalable transactional data models
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, resilience, failure recovery, and production support best practices
- A hands-on technical leader who mentors engineers, drives technical standards, and leads architecture through influence rather than people management
- Experience using modern AI engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or CodeRabbit within a professional software development environment
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This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging, high-throughput systems where architectural ownership, engineering excellence, and modern development practices are genuinely valued.
If working within a highly technical role in finance seems up your street, then drop me your CV and contact number for a discussion further: beya@sr2rec.co.uk 📩
Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 + benefits + bonus 🔥
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