Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead

La Fosse — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 hour ago

Lead Full-time Hybrid Visa History ✓ £80000 + bonus

Skills

Java React Azure technical leadership software architecture technical standards Salesforce Data Engineering

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Own technical direction for a greenfield digital transformation within a large fitness and wellbeing technology environment. You will shape architecture and engineering standards across digital, integrations, data, and related platforms while helping establish a new cross-functional squad. This is a senior individual-contributor leadership role with broad technical influence rather than line management.

Highlights

High-impact greenfield technology role with strong compensation and bonus, ownership of technical direction, and the opportunity to establish a new engineering squad for a large-scale digital transformation.

Description

Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead – Fitness & Wellbeing Technology Barbican & Epsom | Hybrid (1 day/week in office) We're working with one of the UK's largest healthcare and fitness organisations as they re-platform their entire Fitness & Wellbeing technology ecosystem! They are building a best-in-class member app, paperless onboarding, self-service accounts, and end-to-end automated payments and member management. They're looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead to own technical direction across a workstream spanning Digital, Integrations, Salesforce and Data Engineering. This is a high-impact, design-and-standards role supporting millions of member interactions - not a line management position (IC role) This role will be working on a greenfield project (currently in the discovery phase) where you will be re-platforminng their mobile applications, website & back office applications. You will be spearheading a BRAND NEW squad (Spotfiy model) that will include 6 x Engineers + BA/ Architect/ Product Owner You'll: Own low-level solution design, including third-party system integrationsAct as the accountable lead for engineering quality, consistency and delivery pace across multiple workstreamsWork closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers and third-party partners to align technical approachEnsure solutions meet enterprise architecture and engineering standards end-to-endProvide technical guidance and constructive feedback to engineering teams (no direct reports)Identify and mitigate cross-workstream technical riskSupport service management transition, ensuring solutions are stable and operationally readyHelp drive technical decisions + work closely with an Architect/ Head of Dept You'll bring: Strong experience leading technical design and delivery, with ownership of engineering quality and outcomesProven ability to define technical direction and produce high-quality low-level designsBroad experience across mobile & web development, API integrations, data engineering and SalesforceHands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred) with DevOps practicesExcellent communication skills + able to translate complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiencesExperience working in multi-supplier/partner environments Tech Requirements: Senior Level or in depth understanding with the below + experience leading on projects/ architecture/ Stakeholder managementJava/ Spring/ Rabbit MQReact/ TypeScriptAzure (Open to AWS)SalesforceSQL A plus: React NativeFitness/ Wellness industry experience Paying up to £80k + Bonus (up to 10%) and 1 day on site in London OR Surrey office 2 stage interview process & very urgent hire