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Technical Lead - TypeScript / React Native
ÂŁ40,000 - 70,000
Minerva Walk, London
ÂŁ40,000 - 70,000
Requirements
Must:
We are specifically seeking candidates with:
- Experience in strong engineering environments (high-calibre startups, scaleups, or product-led teams)
- Clear career progression demonstrating growth, responsibility, and impact
- Demonstrated leadership ability: mentoring engineers, guiding decisions, supporting delivery
- Desire to remain hands-on (approx. 80% coding) while providing effective technical leadership
Technical Skills:
- Deep experience with TypeScript, React Native, React, Node, Postgres, GCP/Firebase
- Full-stack mindset: mobile, backend, web, SQL
- Track record of writing production-ready, maintainable, and observable code
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced release culture (multiple deploys/day)
- Product-focused mindset with strong user empathy
- 5+ years of engineering experience in high-velocity product environments
- Experience with AI-powered software engineering tools (Cursor, Windsurf, v0, etc.)
Preferred:
- Ability to work from the London office 3 days per week
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Responsibilities
In this truly hands-on leadership role, I will:
- Lead end-to-end development and delivery of features across mobile, backend, and internal tools
- Shape the technical roadmap and make high-impact architectural and scaling decisions
- Maintain high quality, reliability, observability, and performance across all applications
- Act as a mentor and technical guide, establishing strong engineering principles and practices
- Drive engineering productivity using modern AI-accelerated development tools
- Remain highly hands-on—writing production code daily and unblocking the team when needed
- Collaborate directly with founders, influencing both technical and product direction
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Description
I am seeking an exceptional Tech Lead—someone who has risen through high-performing engineering environments (especially startups and scaleups), shows clear progression, and is widely regarded as an A-player. This role combines strong leadership capability with a deep love of coding. I am looking for an engineer who has already shown real influence and impact within strong product-led organizations: someone who has led teams, mentored engineers, made architectural decisions, and delivered at pace, yet still wants to spend around 80% of their time writing high-quality production code. You will be working on: - Mobile Apps: TypeScript, React Native, Expo - Backend: TypeScript, GCP/Firebase Cloud Functions, GCP Pub/Sub, Postgres, Prisma - Web Apps: TypeScript, React, Vercel - Internal ERP: TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel - Deployment: High-velocity release culture—multiple deployments per day to tens of thousands of users Benefits: - Salary range of £80–100k per annum (depending on experience & location) - Annual performance bonus up to 15% - Fully remote or hybrid working (GMT hours)
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