Tech Lead - Node.js/React/Typescript/MongoDB/AWS

Tech Lead - Node.js/React/Typescript/MongoDB/AWS - is required by fast growing and highly successful health tech organisation.

The Tech Lead is the technical heartbeat of a product squad, responsible for balancing hands-on engineering, mentorship, and strategic technical decision-making to drive high-impact outcomes. This role partners closely with Product Management and Design to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that align with organisational goals. As a senior technical leader, the Tech Lead sets technical direction within the squad, champions best practices, and creates the conditions for fast, reliable delivery while supporting the growth and development of engineers.

As a Tech Lead, you will:
(Responsibilities & Deliverables)

Technical Leadership & Craft

Technical Craft:

• Partner with Product Managers to lead development on critical paths while guiding squad delivery.
• Define and uphold squad-level engineering standards, architecture patterns, and refactoring priorities
• Champion developer productivity tools, processes, and ways of working within the squad.
• Maintain a strong hands-on contribution to the codebase, leading by example

Systems Design:

• Architect major features and services within the squad, ensuring alignment with the wider organisational technical vision.
• Review and provide feedback on peers' designs to maintain coherence, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure technical decisions balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health

Quality Mindset:

• Own end-to-end quality for squad deliverables, including testing strategy, monitoring, and release plans.
• Lead incident post-mortems, embedding learning loops and preventative improvements.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt to improve system reliability and developer experience

Problem Solving

• Unblock the squad on complex technical challenges and root-cause analysis.
• Coach engineers in structured debugging, problem decomposition, and solution design.Support sound technical decision-making under ambiguity and constraints.

Product & User Mindset

User Centricity

• Advocate for user needs in technical decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Design to deliver real-world value efficiently and effectively.
• Champion the why behind what is being built, ensuring technical solutions clearly support user outcomes.

Data-Driven Impact:

• Use delivery, quality, and usage metrics to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
• Apply data insights to inform technical decisions and continuously improve team performance.
• Balance qualitative feedback with quantitative signals to guide prioritisation.

Delivery & Operations

Delivering at Pace:

Create the conditions for fast, reliable, and high-quality delivery.

Lead technical planning for complex features and systems, identifying risks early and aligning on engineering trade-offs.

Ensure clear technical direction during execution to maintain momentum and focus.

Technical Scoping:

Partner with Product Managers and Design to assess technical feasibility and surface dependencies.

Provide clear, engineering-led estimates that inform scope, sequencing, and roadmap decisions.

Support pragmatic trade-offs that maximise impact while managing risk.

Operations (Ops):

Own the squad's production systems, including monitoring, performance, rollback, and incident response.

Drive effective bug management and prioritisation.

Champion automation of repetitive operational tasks to improve reliability and reduce cognitive load.

Leadership & People Management

Mentorship & Coaching:

Line-manage 3-5 engineers, providing regular feedback, career guidance, and growth opportunities.

Support engineers in setting development goals and building technical and behavioural skills.

Cultivate a blame-free culture focused on learning, improvement, and knowledge sharing.

Growth Mindset:

Model continuous improvement through learning, experimentation, and reflection.

Share new practices, tools, and technical insights across the squad and wider engineering team.

Encourage adaptability and curiosity in the face of changing requirements and technologies.

Ownership & Accountability:

Take accountability for the squad's technical deliverables and outcomes.

Align engineering efforts with squad goals and organisational priorities.

Set clear technical direction, foster strong ownership within the team, and step in early when risks arise.

Model a culture of accountability, transparency, and no-blame resolution.

Have strong hands-on engineering experience and the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable systems.

Are comfortable leading technical decision-making while remaining pragmatic and delivery focused.

Have experience mentoring and line-managing engineers, supporting both performance and growth.

Can partner effectively with Product Managers and Designers to translate product goals into business outcomes

We'd love to hear from you if you:
(Technical Skills & Capability)

• Have strong hands-on engineering experience and the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable systems.
• Are comfortable leading technical decision-making while remaining pragmatic and delivery focused.
• Have experience mentoring and line-managing engineers, supporting both performance and growth.
• Can partner effectively with Product Managers and Designers to translate product goals into technical solutions.
• Have a strong quality mindset, with experience in testing strategies, monitoring, and operating production systems.
• Are a clear communicator with the ability to influence, coach, and align others around technical direction.
• Bring a collaborative, ownership-driven approach and thrive in a fast-moving, outcome-focused environment.

Excellent training and career development opportunities exist for the right candidate.

Basic salary £95-105,000 + excellent benefits

Based London/remote