[Hiring] Technical Lead @Prolific

Role Description

As a Technical Lead within the Enterprise Experience Team, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence across one of our product development teams. You will lead the technical direction of projects, ensuring the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions, while providing guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers across the team. The role may also include line management responsibilities for less experienced team members.

• Lead Technical Projects: Oversee the design and implementation of key projects, delivering innovative solutions that align with business goals and customer needs.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to define project scope, timelines, and resources, providing expert technical guidance.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Create high-quality, efficient code, uphold coding standards through code reviews and contribute to strategic initiatives and standards through the Technical Authority Group.
• Mentor and Develop Team Members: Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, mentoring others and assisting in hiring and onboarding new talent.
• Influence Technical Direction: Play a key role in strategic technical decisions, promoting the adoption of new technologies and processes to enhance product functionality and performance.
• Own Deliverables: Take responsibility for products and features developed by the team, ensuring successful deployment and ongoing support.

Qualifications

• Extensive Technical Leadership Experience: Proven experience in technical leadership or senior software development roles with strong problem-solving and strategic thinking skills.
• Experience with login and authorisation systems, organisation and permission management, and multi-tenant/multi-user architectures, including hands-on work with tools such as Auth0 and Okta.
• Technical Experience: Extensive experience with Python and cloud-based environments.
• Product Focus: A product engineering mindset and focus on business impacts of technical efforts.
• Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to lead diverse teams and collaborate effectively with various stakeholders.
• Agile Methodologies Familiarity: Knowledge of agile practices and project management techniques.

Requirements

• Key Technologies: We ask for expertise in some, and the willingness to learn where required.
• Cloud Platforms: AWS and GCP.
• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures.
• Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB.
• DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Benefits.
• Remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.