Digital Tech Lead

About the company At First Line Software, we drive business success with cutting-edge IT solutions and a relentless focus on innovation. Since 2010, our global team of over 300 professionals has excelled in industries including healthcare, data engineering, and retail digitalization. By leveraging Generative AI, we deliver impactful results and help clients stay ahead of the curve. Join us to be part of a collaborative team that values growth, excellence, and social responsibility. Let's see what we can create together! The project and your role You'll join a digital engineering team responsible for a set of guest-facing digital products: a guest portal, a loyalty platform, a public-facing booking website, and an AI concierge and booking assistant, all built on a modern, cloud-native stack. As Digital Tech Lead, you will be the most senior hands-on engineer on the team, setting technical direction while staying embedded in the code and the delivery itself. Your responsibilities: Provide hands-on technical leadership across all digital engineering delivery — setting standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and release managementLead architecture and solution design for new digital features and products, working with the Integration Architect to keep alignment with the wider architectureConduct code reviews and architecture assessments with nearshore partner teams, ensuring outputs meet the required engineering standardsActively contribute to delivery — writing code, building features, and shipping working software alongside the product engineering teamOwn the technical definition of user stories — breaking down business requirements into well-scoped engineering tasks and acceptance criteriaIntroduce and embed modern engineering practices: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerisation, code quality gatesAct as the technical accountability lead for nearshore digital engineering partner teams — reviewing architectures, assessing quality, and ensuring delivery meets required standardsIdentify and address performance gaps in partner engineering quality and velocityMentor and develop internal Data & Digital Product Engineers in digital engineering best practicesContribute to engineering capability build — tooling, practices, and onboarding standards for new engineers Your skills Modern web engineering: ASP.Net, .NET8, C#, React, Next.js, TypeScript, REST and GraphQL APIsCloud: AWS — Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Amazon ConnectDevOps: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)CMS and digital experience platforms: Optimizely, Bloomreach, or equivalentAI/ML integration: LLM orchestration (LangChain), conversational AI, WhatsApp Business APISecurity and compliance: OWASP standards, PCI-DSS awareness4+ years in digital engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or principal engineer capacityProven hands-on experience in modern web architectures (React/.NET or React/Next.js, API-first design)Experience leading engineering quality and standards across hybrid engineering modelsA practitioner-first approach — you write code and review code, leading by doing rather than only directingStrong communication skills — able to explain technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders Nice to have: Consumer-facing digital product experience: eCommerce, hospitality, travel, or retail What we can offer Our modern stack projects are the right mix of exciting and challengingGain access to our diverse range of training programs, courses, and certificationsChoose your work style — this role is hybrid, with 3 days a week in the officeEnhance your language skills with our corporate English classesWork from anywhere and explore the world with our Workation program