The Technical Lead overseas the design and development of technical solutions within a team. They ensure solutions meets customer and business needs and align to technical best practices. Our successful candidate will coach, mentor, develop and be an advocate for agile software delivery practices, such as continuous delivery and test automation. 

Your Responsibilities:  

• Partner with stakeholders to support solution discovery 

• Identify gaps in technical capability, and work with architects and others to resolve these 

• Align technical solutions to customer and business needs 

• Advocate and support Agile ways of working 

• Promote and support best practices 

• Remove impediments and distractions to optimise team performance 

• Building Product Capabilities: You’ll be working on developing product features to increase user adoption, which is critical to the success of the platform

Leadership 

• Collaborate with team members to identify and fix technical problems 

• Analyse customer and business needs and design and develop solutions that meet them 

• Manage technical debt and ensure that solutions remain updated and supported 

• Conduct security audits and identify areas of improvement 

• Guide a team through technical issues and challenges 

• Continuously learn and develop yourself and others helping to meet team technical goals 

• Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values 

 
Software Engineering 

• Design and develop efficient, testable, and maintainable solutions 

• Ensure solutions meet customer and business needs 

• Continuously manage and reduce technical debt 

• Support and advocate secure coding practices 

• Support and advocate engineering best practice 

• Advocate and adopt modern architectural solutions where appropriate, such as microservices, event driven architecture, and serverless 

• Support the uptime and availability of solutions in production 

Who you are: 

• 7+ years professional experience in a senior software engineering role 

• A Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated equivalent experience 

• Demonstrated understanding of Agile principles and processes 

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices 

• Commercially minded with the ability to hit the ground running, and to build and maintain constructive working relationships at all levels 

• Excellent adaptive team leadership capabilities including the ability to foster productive team dynamics, engage and enable teams and coach for performance 

• Strong Technical Expertise: The right candidate should have strong cloud development experience with Serverless and/or containers. They need to have successfully delivered projects in this space, ideally using modern web development frameworks like React (or similar JSX component-based libraries). 

• Experience in Relevant Domains: They should be familiar with eCommerce, checkout, and order fulfillment processes. Experience with observability platforms and data-driven development practices will also be important. 

• Leadership & Mentorship: The individual must be a good mentor, able to guide team members, collaborate with Agile Delivery Leads (ADL), Business Analysts (BA), and UX teams, and work closely with architects to ensure best practices are followed. 

• Ability to embrace change in a fast-paced environment 

• Experience within travel or other internet-scale environments and understanding of the travel or retail industry (Desired)