Technical Lead - FinTech SaaS Start Up

Tech Lead

Overview

Industry | SaaS / RegTech

Title | Tech Lead

Impact | Own architecture, mentor engineers, and build tools that make complex regulation simple

Stack | React, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, AWS

Location | London (Hybrid 3 days in office)

Salary | Competitive + Benefits

Perks | 25 days holiday, private medical insurance, hybrid setup, L&D budget, electric car scheme, volunteering days, unlimited 1:1 coaching

Why youll care

• Youll walk into real ownership: stabilise a high-usage product, lead engineering decisions, and shape a rebuild thats already in motion.
• You get autonomy without politics: leadership defers to experts, moves fast, and backs good decisions. The roadmap has teeth: make it stable, then ship one disruptive product by March .
• You wont be stuck in meetings. Youll code, review, mentor, and choose the tools/patterns that make the platform reliable and scalable as hundreds of clients come online through acquisitions.

Youll like this if

• Youve always been more than just a developer.
• You care about why somethings being built as much as how . You like clean architecture, smart tooling, and fast iteration. Youd rather ship meaningful code than over-engineer a perfect system no one uses.

Here, youll guide a small team building a SaaS platform used by financial and fintech firms to manage regulatory complexity. Its a space full of nuance, and youll help make it simple turning legislation into usable, elegant software.

Youll set the technical direction, decide how things are built, and mentor others while staying hands-on in the stack. Expect a mix of architecture, code, and collaboration all with enough freedom to make your mark.

This isnt a corporate tech lead job where you spend your days in Jira tickets and meetings. Its a place where smart, curious engineers can build with purpose.

Youll be doing things like

• Set the technical direction: architecture, reliability, performance, security.
• Lead through code: build/refactor in TypeScript/React; review PRs; raise standards.
• Line-lead the engineering team (London + Near-Shore) day-to-day.
• Partner with product/UX to turn messy regulatory workflows into simple software.
• Guide cloud choices (AWS serverless today; microservices/K8s/AI later) and keep costs sane.
• Keep delivery cadence strong (Jira, CI/CD, two-week sprints).

Youll fit well if you

• Are a front-end-biased full-stack engineer (React + TypeScript/Node) who can lead.
• Know AWS well enough to prioritise uptime, performance, and cost.
• Mentor well, explain trade-offs simply, and enjoy turning chaos into clarity.
• Have seen both startup scrappiness and scaled quality .
• RegTech/fintech is a plus, not a must curiosity wins.

Why youll enjoy it

Youll work in a small, close-knit team that actually collaborates - no egos, no politics, no layers of approval. The pace is fast, the problems are interesting, and your ideas matter.

Process

30-min intro take-home (small, pragmatic) 45-min code review 60-min final (HM + director).

Fast sequencing: code review and final often scheduled same day.

What happens next

Send your profile or a short note about something you stabilised or scaled.

If its a fit, well move quickly.