We’re on the lookout for a Technical Squad Lead who’s as passionate about clean, scalable backend engineering as they are about leading brilliant engineers. If you thrive on solving complex problems, championing engineering excellence, and driving innovation across teams this is your next move.
As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll guide a squad of engineers to design, build, test, and ship high-quality backend solutions. You’ll set the technical direction, raise standards, modernise our tooling and SDLC, and empower your team to deliver at pace.
Interested? Take a look at the below to understand what you'll be doing in your role as a Technical Squad Lead at Evri!
1. Designing and delivering efficient, scalable, end-to-end applications
2. Writing high-quality, well-tested code that aligns with modern frameworks and engineering best practice
3. Leading engineers of all seniorities, setting goals, and driving performance
4. Keeping applications secure, up to date, and fully aligned to our engineering policies
5. Driving DevEx improvements, CI/CD standardisation, and automation
6. Owning the SDLC - collaborating closely with Test to ensure strong coverage and automation
7. Supporting architecture with design decisions, trade-offs, and solution evaluations
8. Prioritising and clearing technical debt
9. Delivering cost optimisation and driving adoption of AWS best practices
10. Managing repos, documentation, environments, pipelines, and engineering hygiene
11. Running demos, championing innovation, and pushing forward POCs
Still interested? Great news! Here’s what you’ll bring:
12. 8+ years’ experience in backend software engineering
13. Deep experience with Java, Maven, Spring Boot, TypeScript
14. Strong understanding of REST APIs, WebSockets & cloud-native engineering
15. Hands-on expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Fargate, CloudFormation/CDK)
16. Solid grounding in CI/CD, DevOps automation, and modern SDLC (Scrum, BDD, TDD)
17. Experience leading engineers and driving delivery in agile environments
18. A passion for collaboration, coaching, innovation, and raising the engineering bar