Chroma Recruitment
Technical Lead
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About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Technical Lead - Software Engineering & Infrastructure to take ownership of a growing digital platform estate, cloud infrastructure, and systems integration environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical excellence with people leadership, guiding a small team of talented engineers while remaining actively involved in architecture, development, DevOps, cloud operations, and complex technical problem-solving. If you're passionate about building scalable platforms, improving engineering practices, and mentoring teams, we'd love to hear from you.
The Role
As Technical Lead, you'll act as the senior technical authority across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and production operations. You'll lead a team of four engineers while working closely with key business stakeholders and external technology partners. You'll play a central role in shaping technical strategy, driving platform reliability, improving engineering standards, and delivering technology solutions that support business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Software Engineers and a Solutions & Operations Engineer.
- Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and career development planning.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across software development, infrastructure, and DevOps.
- Drive engineering best practices through coaching, architecture reviews, and code reviews.
- Provide technical oversight and challenge to third-party development and integration partners.
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Software Development & Architecture
- Own the technical roadmap and architecture for critical business platforms.
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade applications using: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
- Support modern web and eCommerce platforms built using technologies such as Next.js and headless CMS solutions.
- Define and continuously improve development standards, testing practices, and release management processes.
- Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Integration & Systems
- Lead the design and support of enterprise integrations connecting digital platforms, ERP systems, finance platforms, and third-party services.
- Ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data flows across business systems.
- Assess technical feasibility, risks, and dependencies for new projects and initiatives.
- Drive improvements in integration architecture, monitoring, and support processes.
Infrastructure & Operations
- Design and maintain secure, resilient cloud environments primarily within AWS.
- Own platform monitoring, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
- Implement observability best practices using modern monitoring and telemetry tools.
- Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and service improvement initiatives.
- Continuously improve reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
What We're Looking For
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Essential Experience
- Experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or similar senior technical role.
- Strong track record managing production platforms and improving availability, performance, and reliability.
- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
- Experience with modern React-based frameworks such as Next.js.
- Strong AWS cloud architecture and operational experience.
- Hands-on experience with: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), DevOps practices.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise integrations and middleware solutions.
- Knowledge of security best practices, access control, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable Experience
- eCommerce platform development experience.
- Knowledge of n8n, Boomi, Redis, Python, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
- Experience with hybrid-cloud environments.
- ERP, PIM, search platform, or product catalogue integrations.
- AWS certifications.
- Experience within B2B commerce, manufacturing, industrial distribution, or similar sectors.
- Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering performance frameworks.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.
Pay range and compensation package
£70,000-85,000 per annum
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