Location: East Kilbride
Salary: £50-60K Per Annum
Benefits: Discretionary bonus, healthcare, pension, life assurance, hybrid working, career development, and regular team events
The Client:
We’re partnering with a well-established, product-led technology business delivering large-scale, high-impact software solutions used across the UK. Their platforms process billions of transactions annually and support critical, real-world systems used by millions of people every day. With a strong reputation for innovation, reliability, and customer delivery, they are continuing to invest in modern, cloud-native technologies and are expanding their engineering capability to support new product development and market growth.
The Candidate:
This role would suit a highly capable full-stack engineer who enjoys working across the entire technology stack and taking ownership of end-to-end solutions. You will be technically strong and comfortable leading from the front, mentoring others, and influencing technical direction. You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy solving complex engineering challenges while driving best practices across a team.
The Role:
This is a hands‑on Engineering Technical Lead position, where you will play a key role in designing and delivering modern, cloud‑native applications. You will work across a cutting‑edge stack, including TypeScript and AWS (CDK), within a microservices architecture, contributing to both backend services and frontend applications. Alongside development, you will provide technical leadership, helping to shape architecture, improve engineering standards, and support the growth of the wider team.
Key Duties:
* Lead by example through hands‑on development and problem solving.
* Drive architectural and technical decisions across projects.
* Build and deliver scalable, secure, cloud‑native solutions.
* Develop and maintain systems using TypeScript and AWS (CDK).
* Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and security.
* Mentor and support engineers, contributing to team development.
* Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and DevOps teams.
* Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
* Ensure systems are designed for scalability, resilience, and observability.
Requirements:
* Strong experience as a full‑stack developer (not purely frontend or backend).
* Experience delivering solutions in AWS, ideally using AWS CDK.
* Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD practices.
* Experience working with microservices architectures.
* Ability to design and build secure, scalable, and resilient systems.
* Strong understanding of software engineering best practices.
* Experience mentoring or supporting other developers.
* Comfortable working in Agile environments.
Nice to have (not essential):
* Experience working within payments or regulated environments.
* Exposure to banking or financial systems.
* Experience managing or working with third‑party suppliers or offshore teams.
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