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Technical Lead (TypeScript | Node.js | AWS | Serverless | Headless Ecommerce)
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Technical Lead — Fully Remote
TypeScript | Node.js | AWS | Serverless | Headless Ecommerce
Want to lead technically without spending your entire week in meetings?
We are working with a fast-growing D2C subscription brand in the pet space, and we're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to join its expanding digital team.
This is a genuine 50/50 technical leadership and coding role. You'll have ownership of architecture and technical direction, lead engineers through complex delivery, and still spend a significant part of your week writing production code.
The opportunity
The business is investing heavily in its digital and ecommerce capability, moving established brands away from legacy platforms and onto a modern, scalable infrastructure.
You'll take technical ownership of a delivery squad working across large-scale ecommerce migrations and new digital products.
The work is varied. Current projects across the wider team include personalisation, A/B testing, AI-powered search and customer-facing digital tools, alongside the continued evolution of the core ecommerce platform.
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You'll be trusted to make decisions rather than simply execute someone else's architecture.
What you'll be doing
Around 50% of your role will remain hands-on, with the other half focused on architecture, technical leadership, removing blockers and helping the wider team deliver.
You'll:
- Lead the technical direction of your squad
- Design and evolve scalable architectures
- Remain hands-on with TypeScript, Node.js and AWS
- Build and integrate APIs and services
- Help engineers solve complex technical problems
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions based on business requirements
- Support major platform migrations and new product launches
- Work closely with product and business stakeholders
- Mentor developers and raise engineering standards across the team
What we're looking for
You'll probably already be a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or Lead Full Stack Developer. We're also open to an exceptional Senior Engineer ready to make the move into a Technical Lead position — but you'll need to already be demonstrating technical ownership and leadership in your current role.
Technically, we're looking for strong experience with:
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- JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js
- AWS, particularly serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway and SQS
- Building and designing APIs
- Microservice/service-based architectures
- Modern frontend development
- Web performance and scalable applications
Experience with headless ecommerce, MACH/composable architecture or platform migrations would be particularly valuable. And if you've worked with Commercetools, even better — although it isn't essential.
Why consider it?
This is a chance to join a digital team that's still early enough in its journey for you to have a genuine influence over how things are built.
You won't be joining as a manager who occasionally looks at code.
You'll be expected to challenge decisions, shape architecture, support your engineers and build things yourself.
If you're a strong TypeScript/Node engineer who enjoys the architectural and leadership side of engineering but doesn't want to give up coding, we'd like to hear from you.
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