Sadler Recruitment
Technical Lead
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Job Title: Technical Lead (Hands-On, Client-Facing)
Location: Central Cardiff – Hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 days from home)
Salary: Circa £70,000 depending on experience, with equity open to discussion
About the Role
Our client is a small, growing digital consultancy in central Cardiff. All new work is serverless on AWS using TypeScript, Node and React, backed by a strong AWS relationship and a cloud consultancy that supports the infrastructure. Older projects are WordPress and CMS-based, and the team uses Cursor and AI assistance daily. The work is mainly new project delivery, in a lean, supportive team with a family feel and a calm, well-run working environment.
The role covers the whole of technical delivery: hands-on coding, leading the developers, client contact and planning with the MD. That is a wider remit than leading a single project or team, and for the right person the MD is prepared to discuss equity and share ownership.
The company has recently won a project with one of the UK's leading sports organisations, is winning further work with sports clubs, and has its own CRM and learning management platform that can be used in other industries, with partners in place to sell it.
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Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on development: Writing production code in TypeScript, Node and React, mainly on new builds, and moving legacy WordPress applications onto the modern stack.
- Technical standards: Setting the technical direction and coding standards, and enforcing them through code reviews.
- Team leadership: Leading and mentoring the developers, and planning workload with the MD based on cost, availability and team dynamics.
- Clients and delivery: Speaking directly with clients, reporting status and risks clearly, and challenging directors and stakeholders when the technical or commercial case requires it.
Experience Required
- Experience as a lead developer, or as a senior developer who has led a project and a small team and had a say in the technical standards.
- Hands-on commercial experience with React, TypeScript and Node.
- REST and GraphQL APIs, plus Postgres and MongoDB.
- Git workflows and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of AWS and experience of Agile delivery.
- Experience of mentoring developers and dealing directly with clients.
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Skills & Attributes
- Able to explain technical decisions to non-technical people in plain language.
- Able to weigh cost and availability alongside technical factors when making a decision.
- Raises problems early and openly.
Desirable
- AWS serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway and Cognito.
- AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor.
- Agency experience, or experience of migrating WordPress sites to a modern architecture.
What's on Offer
- Circa £75,000, with equity and share ownership open to discussion as the company grows.
- Full authority over technical direction and a direct say with the MD in how work is planned, with the scope of the role growing as the business does.
- Mainly new project work on a modern serverless stack.
- A calm, well-run business with a lean, supportive team.
- Hybrid working from central Cardiff, with 3 days in the office and 2 from home.
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