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Technical Lead

Key points

  • 06/07/26
  • London, City of Westminster
  • £95k - 115k per year + Plus bonus plus growth shares plus pension and other benefits
  • Permanent
  • Software Engineering
  • Full time

Job role

Technical Lead

Location: London (Fitzrovia) | Hybrid (1 day per week in the office)
Salary: £115,000 + Annual Bonus + Growth Shares

We're partnering with a fast-growing FinTech that is transforming the mortgage market through innovative technology and exceptional engineering. Following significant growth and continued investment in its platform, they are looking to hire a Technical Lead to play a key role in shaping the future of their engineering capability.

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine technical excellence with architectural influence. Working closely with Engineering, Product and Business stakeholders, you'll help design, build and scale core products while raising engineering standards across the organisation.

You'll remain actively involved in software development, mentoring engineers, reviewing code and driving best practices, while helping shape technical direction in a collaborative and pragmatic way.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and deploy scalable production software solutions.
  • Lead technical discussions and influence architecture decisions.
  • Develop high-quality code across backend and frontend services.
  • Build secure, reliable and maintainable cloud-native applications.
  • Develop AI-powered tools for brokers and underwriters
  • Build and productionise LLM, RAG and agentice AI capabilities
  • Support and mentor engineers through code reviews and technical coaching.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
  • Champion engineering best practices across testing, security, CI/CD and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience with Python.
  • Experience with React (TypeScript), Django and FastAPI.
  • Strong AWS cloud and application development experience.
  • Expertise building APIs, distributed systems and scalable applications.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, Git and CI/CD.
  • Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience.
  • FinTech or Financial Services experience would be advantageous.

Technology Stack

  • Python
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • REST APIs

AI Technologies

LLMs

RAG and grounding patterns

Agentic workflowds

Prompt design and structured outputs

Benefits

  • £115,000 base salary
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Growth shares / equity opportunity
  • Hybrid working (1 day per week in London)
  • 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Private healthcare cash plan
  • Pension scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Modern Central London office
  • Excellent career progression opportunities

If you're a hands-on Technical Lead who enjoys solving complex problems, building modern software and helping engineers perform at their best, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

Benefits

Plus bonus plus growth shares plus pension and other benefits

Apply now

Matt Challis

Software Engineering Managing Consultant, London

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