🚀 Technical Lead / Lead Software Engineer (Go, PHP, AWS) | Remote UK
One of the UK's Fastest-Growing Technology Scale-Ups
£75,000–£95,000 + Exceptional Benefits + Remote First
Lead Teams. Shape Architecture. Build Technology at Scale.
The Opportunity
We're partnering with one of the UK's most exciting and fastest-growing technology businesses as they continue a period of exceptional growth and investment.
Their SaaS platform powers mission-critical decision-making for global organisations, processing vast amounts of data and delivering real business impact at scale.
Following significant growth, they're investing heavily in engineering leadership and are seeking experienced Technical Leads and Lead Engineers to help shape the next generation of their platform.
This is a role for someone who loves technology, enjoys leading engineers, and wants genuine influence over architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction.
You'll join a business where engineering is at the heart of every strategic decision and where Technical Leads are trusted to make a real impact.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
You'll play a key role in a major platform evolution programme as the business continues its journey from a mature PHP ecosystem towards a modern cloud-native architecture built around Go, APIs, distributed services, and AWS.
This isn't a greenfield start-up.
Nor is it a legacy environment.
It's the sweet spot: a successful, profitable, high-growth technology business with real scale, real customers, and exciting technical challenges.
The Role
This is a 70% hands-on engineering and 30% leadership position.
We're specifically looking for leaders who still love writing code, solving complex technical problems, and contributing to architecture.
You will:
🌳 Lead a team of talented software engineers
🌳 Remain actively involved in software development
🌳 Shape technical strategy and architecture
🌳 Mentor and develop engineers
🌳 Drive engineering excellence across your team
🌳 Partner with Product and Engineering Leadership
🌳 Influence the future direction of a rapidly scaling platform
What You'll Be Doing
Technical Leadership
🌳 Designing and building scalable services using Go
🌳 Modernising and evolving a large-scale PHP platform
🌳 Building high-performance APIs and backend services
🌳 Driving architectural decisions across multiple product areas
🌳 Leading code reviews and engineering best practices
🌳 Solving complex scalability, reliability, and performance challenges
🌳 Contributing across backend and frontend technologies
🌳 Championing clean code, testing, and maintainability
People Leadership
🌳 Leading, mentoring, and coaching software engineers
🌳 Conducting regular 1-to-1s
🌳 Supporting career development and growth
🌳 Building high-performing engineering teams
🌳 Creating a collaborative and inclusive engineering culture
🌳 Supporting hiring and team expansion
What We're Looking For
Essential
✅ Strong commercial Golang experience
✅ Strong commercial PHP experience
✅ Previous experience leading software engineering teams
✅ Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers
✅ Experience operating as a Technical Lead, Team Lead, Lead Engineer, or Hands-On Engineering Manager
✅ Strong API design and development experience
✅ AWS cloud experience
✅ Strong Object-Oriented Programming principles
✅ Modern software architecture experience
✅ Full-stack development experience
✅ Experience building and scaling complex production systems
Technical Environment
Backend
🌳 Golang
🌳 PHP
🌳 REST APIs
🌳 Microservices
🌳 Event-Driven Architecture
Cloud & Platform
🌳 AWS
🌳 Docker
🌳 Kubernetes
🌳 CI/CD
🌳 Infrastructure as Code
Front End
🌳 JavaScript
🌳 TypeScript
🌳 Vue.js
🌳 Modern SPA Architecture
Engineering Practices
🌳 SOLID Principles
🌳 Clean Architecture
🌳 Domain-Driven Design
🌳 Automated Testing
🌳 Continuous Delivery
The Person
We're looking for someone who combines technical depth with leadership capability.
You'll likely be:
🌳 A highly respected senior engineer or technical leader
🌳 Someone who leads through technical credibility
🌳 Passionate about mentoring and developing others
🌳 Comfortable making architectural decisions
🌳 Excited by scale, complexity, and modern engineering practices
🌳 Naturally curious and constantly learning
🌳 Someone who enjoys building both great software and great teams
What You'll Receive
🌳 £75,000–£95,000 DOE
🌳 Remote-first working
🌳 Private healthcare
🌳 Enhanced pension
🌳 Generous holiday allowance
🌳 Learning & development budget
🌳 Innovation and hack weeks
🌳 Career progression opportunities
🌳 High-trust, low-politics culture
🌳 Access to some of the most interesting engineering challenges in the UK technology sector
Apply If...
You are an experienced Go engineer with a strong PHP background, have successfully led engineering teams, enjoy mentoring others, and want to play a significant role in the growth of one of the UK's most exciting technology scale-ups.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and real influence within a business that is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in its technology future.