Tech Lead – Go, React

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead and assist in various client projects through active coding, software architecture, solution design, delivery leadership, and project management.

• Achieve high-value, impactful results for clients while delivering dependable and scalable solutions.

• Oversee a team of technical direct reports engaged in client projects.

• Offer actionable feedback, technical mentorship, and guidance to direct reports.

• Collaborate with clients at all levels to comprehend challenges, set expectations, and maximize business value.

• Act as the engagement lead representing CreateFuture.

• Articulate designs, trade-offs, and constraints in alignment with client objectives.

• Direct architecture, solution design, and documentation; make sensible technology selections.

• Contribute code when necessary and establish engineering standards for reviews, testing, and maintainability.

• Diagnose complex issues and drive root-cause resolutions and follow-up actions.

• Take ownership of technical outcomes by defining scope, estimating, planning, and tracking agreed-upon goals.

• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating them with options, impacts, and recommendations.

• Ensure actionable backlogs and realistic plans; communicate timelines and team structure requirements.

• Mentor direct reports, eliminate obstacles, address performance challenges, and conduct team meetings, one-on-ones, objective setting, and reviews.

• Contribute to hiring efforts, delivery practices, standards, and pre-sales activities.

• Build trusted client relationships, translate business requirements into technical strategies, manage expectations and scope, and identify follow-on opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a hands-on technical leader in delivering complex software solutions.

• Demonstrated thought leadership in helping clients and colleagues understand contemporary technology and processes.

• Capability to line-manage a team of engineers while also contributing personally to delivery.

• Commercial proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript.

• Commercial experience with at least one major cloud platform: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Familiarity with modern infrastructure practices such as containers, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.

• Strong foundation in delivery fundamentals including estimation, planning, and management of risks, issues, and dependencies.

• Ability to communicate designs and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proficient in navigating difficult conversations and providing actionable feedback; capable of establishing clear standards and holding individuals accountable.

• Desirable: experience in customizing Scrum or Kanban methodologies to fit specific contexts.

• Desirable: involvement in change transformation projects that incorporate substantial Artificial Intelligence adoption.

• Desirable: a wide-ranging skill set across multiple languages or disciplines, such as Rust, test automation, or DevOps/platform engineering.

• Desirable: experience across various cloud platforms and cloud-native services.

• Desirable: contributions to recruitment and pre-sales within a consultancy framework.

• Desirable: representation of CreateFuture within the external technology community.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote options.

• A supportive and welcoming company culture.

• Investment in your professional and personal development.

• Occasional travel to client locations or CreateFuture offices as required.

• Flexible time management that prioritizes impact over activity.

• A clear, fair, and respectful hiring process.

• Assistance or adjustments available during the application process.