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Technical Lead
Location: Remote (must live within commuting distance of Exeter)
Salary: Competitive
About Ucheck
We are Ucheck - we are not just a background check provider; we are an engine of trust, safety, and compliance for UK businesses. We empower organisations to hire safely, quickly, and legally by verifying the credentials and histories of potential employees.
Ucheck is part of the Citation Group - a collective of businesses dedicated to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises across a range of essential services. We know that running a business means juggling a lot. Our mission is to ease these pressures by providing expertise, guidance, and solutions that enable business leaders to focus on what they do best. From HR and Health & Safety to Cybersecurity, E-Learning, and ISO compliance, we’ve got you covered.
Citation has achieved strong growth through a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, continually broadening our expertise, services, and reach to create a one-stop shop that supports businesses across the UK, Canada, and Australia.
The Role
Ucheck is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to inspire, develop, and lead its software engineering team.
Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop the Ucheck engineering team, creating a positive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.
- Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and support career development.
- Foster psychological safety, encourage knowledge sharing, and reduce key person dependencies.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and team capability.
Technical Leadership
- Define the technical direction of the Ucheck platform, balancing business needs with security, scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- Remain hands-on where needed through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and solution design.
- Work with architects and technical leaders across the Citation Group to drive engineering best practice.
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Engineering Excellence
- Champion high standards of code quality, testing, security, and documentation.
- Drive continuous improvement, ensuring technical debt, platform health, and engineering quality are prioritized alongside product delivery.
- Promote secure, maintainable, and well-tested software development practices.
AI First Engineering
- Lead the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, embedding them into day-to-day development.
- Coach the team on the effective, responsible, and secure use of AI to improve productivity, quality, and delivery.
- Encourage innovation while establishing clear standards and governance for AI-assisted development.
Delivery & Platform Ownership
- Work closely with Product, QA, and the Verification Software Development Manager to deliver high-quality software predictably and efficiently.
- Improve planning, estimation, and delivery discipline while balancing new features with maintenance, security, and technical debt.
- Support platform reliability, observability, CI/CD, operational resilience, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with Product, QA, Infrastructure, Security, and stakeholders across the Citation Group.
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and priorities clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Represent the engineering team and contribute to cross-functional and Group-wide initiatives.
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Required Experience and Skills
Essential
- Previous experience as a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, Development Lead, or Engineering Manager within a software-development environment.
- Demonstrable experience of line-managing and developing software engineers.
- Strong experience of leading teams through delivery, technical, and interpersonal challenges.
- Strong commercial experience with PHP.
- Experience working with MySQL or a comparable relational database platform.
- Experience delivering and operating software on AWS.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and integration patterns.
- Experience with Agile software delivery and iterative product development.
- Experience establishing or improving engineering standards and working practices.
- Experience with code review, automated testing, and secure software development.
- Experience balancing feature development with technical debt, maintenance, and platform health.
- Experience working directly with Product Owners and business stakeholders.
- Experience communicating technical risks and trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing production systems and supporting operational improvement.
- Daily or regular use of AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) with demonstrable productivity gains.
Benefits
- 25 Days of Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays
- Birthday Bliss: A day off on your birthday.
- Post-Wedding Bliss: Extra one week of holiday for newlyweds.
- Growing Families: Vouchers and special perks for expectant parents.
- Healthcare cash plan
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