Engineering Team Lead
The Access Group (company site, opens in a new tab)On-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–48 LPA
Posted on 4 Sept
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About This Role
- Split responsibility between hands-on coding (50%) and leading engineering streams (50%) including architecture, process, and people management.
- Own technical direction, code quality standards, AI tooling adoption, and delivery performance for up to eight engineers across up to two streams.
- Manage engineering process, sprint ceremonies, recruitment, performance cycles, and incident handling ensuring reliable, secure, and predictable software delivery.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: Proven experience leading software engineering teams with hands-on coding and architectural decision-making.
- Strong software engineering background with expertise in Java, TypeScript/React, SQL, cloud databases (Azure/AWS), RESTful APIs, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Demonstrated AI tooling adoption in development workflows and leadership in embedding AI in engineering practices.
- No explicit notice period mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced engineering leader capable of balancing coding and people leadership responsibilities within distributed teams (UK and India).
- Technical strategist who actively drives AI integration to improve development speed, quality, and feedback loops.
- Operator skilled at maintaining engineering quality bars while managing delivery, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies in a fast-paced environment.