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Technical Lead

LB485
  • £120,000 - £130,000
  • London Area

Technical Lead (Full Stack Team - React.js/JVM)

💰 £120,000 - £130,000 + bonus + excellent Benefits

📍 Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone 1)


Want to manage and lead a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy?

Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?🌍🌱


Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK’s most exciting clean tech companies.


As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands-on with day-to-day coding. You’ll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. This opportunity is 70% hands-on and 30% people management and line manager responsibilities.


What You’ll Do

  • Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems.
  • Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)
  • Contribute to fullstack design using Next.js (60%) and Kotlin (40%), supporting a polyglot mindset.
  • Work directly with customers/stakeholders and product managers
  • Collaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling and system design.
  • Grow and shape your team


💻 Next.js, React.js, Kotlin (JVM), Springboot, Ktor, AI tooling, AWS, distributed systems, microservices, CI/CD, modern engineering practices and methodologies


What They're Looking For

  • Deep fullstack engineering experience; any Frontend & JVM backgrounds
  • Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
  • Experience scaling production systems in fast-moving product environments.
  • Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management


Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact?

Apply now and help shape the future of clean energy at scale. 🚗🔌

Charlotte Young Head of Java & Kotlin Recruitment

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