Tech Lead / Senior Full Stack Developer

Senior Full Stack Developer / Tech Lead

Hands‐on | Mission‐led organisation | Remote‐first

Remote first, with onsite days in London 1–2 times per month

35‐hour working week, 10% pension

18–24 month FTC, with potential to go permanent

£70,000–£85,000

We are looking for a hands‐on engineer who can lead from the front while shaping long‐term technical strategy. The organisation has recently completed a digital transformation, including a new website. A CRM migration is about to begin, and new tools and platforms will be built, including the use of AI to scale impact. Your work will directly shape the organisation’s internal technical capability and the long‐term technical roadmap for a national advisory service.

This is a mission‐driven, government‐funded organisation providing essential services to large numbers of people with leasehold properties across the UK, Wales, and Scotland.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Setting the technical direction of the organisation
• Taking ownership of a greenfield technical environment
• Building and leading a small engineering team
• Guiding architectural decisions while remaining hands‐on
• Influencing product strategy and contributing to the roadmap

Why Join?

• Greenfield work: build tools and systems from the ground up
• Mission‐led: your work will directly benefit people across the UK
• Strategic influence: shape the entire technical roadmap
• Grow a team: opportunity to hire and lead your own engineering team
• Modern technical landscape: work with current tools and cloud technologies

Requirements

• Strong hands‐on experience with Python (Django)
• Front‐end experience with JavaScript (React or Vue)
• Experience with relational databases
• Experience or exposure to Heroku
• Exposure to Azure or other cloud platforms
• Experience working in a small company (<50 people)
• Comfortable working in small, adaptable environments
• Prior experience leading teams and setting technical direction
• Experience building an engineering team
• Experience integrating AI APIs into products
• Wagtail CMS experience is a nice to have