Tech Lead - API Platform

🌳 URGENT: TECH LEAD | GREENFIELD PRODUCT BUILD 🌳 Ruby | TypeScript | Go | Python | PHP | Remote UK | Up to £80k + Benefits New Product | High Impact | 70% Hands-On / 30% Leadership Areti Group is partnering with a high-growth technology organisation going through an exciting period of product expansion. We’re looking for an exceptional Tech Lead to join a newly forming product team and take ownership of the technical direction, architecture and delivery of a brand-new product from the ground up. This is a genuine hands-on Tech Lead position - ideal for someone who wants technical ownership and leadership responsibility without stepping away from the code. 🛠️ The Essentials 💻 Remote UK✈️ Monthly travel to the South Coast⚡ Full-time | 37.5 hours👨 💻 70% hands-on engineering / 30% leadership🏗️ Brand-new product - greenfield development🤝 Work as part of a Tech / Product / Design leadership triad 💡 Why This Role Stands Out ✔️ Build something from the ground up rather than inheriting an established product ✔️ Own the technical direction and have genuine influence over architecture and engineering decisions ✔️ Stay deeply hands-on while mentoring and developing a team ✔️ Work closely with Product & Design to turn ideas into robust technical solutions ✔️ Help shape the engineering standards, development practices and technical roadmap ✔️ Take a product through discovery → development → launch → future phases ✔️ Join an organisation where the technology has a genuine real-world impact 🛠️ Tech Environment The organisation has a broad modern engineering estate including: RubyTypeScriptGoPythonPHPCloud & modern engineering practicesYou don't need experience across the entire stack - they're looking for strong object-oriented engineering fundamentals and the ability to work confidently with modern software architecture. 🎯 What You'll Be Doing 🔹 Owning the technical direction and architecture of a brand-new product 🔹 Leading by example through hands-on development 🔹 Making key architectural and technical decisions 🔹 Establishing high engineering standards around code quality, testing and automation 🔹 Working closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions 🔹 Acting as the team's technical escalation point 🔹 Reviewing code and driving engineering best practice 🔹 Mentoring and developing engineers within the team 🔹 Helping take the product from early-stage development through to market launch 🔹 Working within 2-week Agile/Scrum sprints 🧠 What We're Looking For ✔️ Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer or Senior Software Engineer ✔️ Strong experience within a product engineering environment ✔️ Excellent hands-on software development skills ✔️ Strong understanding of architecture and system design ✔️ Experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages ✔️ Experience mentoring, supporting or leading other engineers ✔️ Comfortable making technical decisions and trade-offs ✔️ Pragmatic, collaborative and commercially aware approach ✔️ Someone who enjoys building products rather than simply maintaining them ✨ Nice to Have ➕ Experience working across Ruby, TypeScript, Go, Python or PHP ➕ Experience building greenfield products ➕ Experience taking products from concept through to production ➕ Strong Agile/Scrum experience ➕ Experience working closely with Product and Design 🎁 Package & Benefits 💰 Competitive salary up to £80,000 🌴 25 days holiday + bank holidays 🎂 Birthday off ➕ Additional annual leave with tenure 🏥 Private Medical Insurance 💼 Pension contribution 🧠 Health & wellbeing support 📚 Learning & development opportunities 🎉 Regular social events ⏰ Why Apply Now? 🔥 This is an opportunity to join a newly forming team at the beginning of a major product journey. You'll have genuine ownership over the technology, influence the architecture from day one and still spend the majority of your time building, solving problems and writing production code. If you're a Senior Engineer or Tech Lead who wants to build something new, influence technical direction and lead from the front - I'd love to speak with you. 📩 DM me for the full details or to discuss the opportunity confidentially.