Full Stack Lead Engineer
We’re partnering with a fast-growing, mission-driven EdTech / Higher Education technology business transforming how universities manage international admissions, compliance, and the student journey.
They’re hiring a Full Stack Tech Lead to take ownership of high-impact product areas, lead delivery across frontend and backend, and help shape the technical direction of a platform used at scale.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading full stack delivery with React, TypeScript, Node.js
- Designing and building secure, scalable APIs and user-facing features
- Owning performance, reliability, and scalability challenges end-to-end
- Mentoring engineers, setting standards, and improving engineering practices
- Contributing to DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, and pipeline optimisation
- Helping the team adopt practical Generative AI tooling to ship better, faster
What we’re looking for
- Strong hands-on experience across TypeScript / React / Node / REST APIs
- AWS experience (serverless is ideal): Lambda, SQS, S3, Cognito, API Gateway, EventBridge
- Microservices + event-driven patterns
- PostgreSQL plus at least one of DynamoDB/Redis
- Comfortable leading technical decisions and collaborating with product & design
Unfortunately for this position the client is unable to offer any form of sponsorship.