Technical Lead, Core Services

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical architecture and strategic direction for Aveni’s core platform services.

• Design and develop scalable, event-driven services utilizing AWS.

• Enhance client-data ingestion processes to facilitate configuration-based onboarding.

• Construct and maintain APIs for consistent access to client and CRM data.

• Create robust multi-tenant systems ensuring strong data isolation, security, and operational controls.

• Lead data lifecycle management, encompassing retention, deletion, residency, and GDPR compliance.

• Develop resilient third-party platform and API integrations, incorporating authentication, rate limiting, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery.

• Make and document architectural choices, representing Core Services during Architecture Review Board discussions.

• Elevate engineering standards across testing, observability, security, reliability, and operational ownership.

• Stay actively engaged with production code, mainly using Node.js and AWS.

• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, design discussions, and technical coaching.

• Assist the team in utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate controls.

• Provide technical leadership to a team of approximately six to seven engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience, showcasing a solid history of technical leadership and architectural decision-making.

• In-depth production experience with Node.js, especially in backend, API, and distributed systems.

• Strong background in designing and operating cloud-native systems on AWS.

• Experience in building event-driven architectures and understanding asynchronous distributed systems.

• Proven experience in designing production systems with complex multi-tenancy, data isolation, or data lifecycle needs.

• Solid experience integrating with third-party APIs, including handling rate limits, partial failures, retries, and reconciliation.

• Strong grasp of reliability, observability, security, and operational ownership.

• Experience in making architectural trade-offs and effectively communicating technical decisions.

• A record of mentoring engineers and enhancing engineering standards.

• Willingness and ability to remain hands-on while providing technical guidance.

• Production experience with Python in addition to Node.js (desirable).

• Familiarity with Auth0, AWS Cognito, or similar identity and access management technologies (desirable).

• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0 and authentication/authorization patterns (desirable).

• Experience in the financial services sector or another regulated environment (desirable).

• Experience managing data residency, retention, and GDPR erasure requirements at scale (desirable).

• Participation in Architecture Review Boards or similar governance forums (desirable).

• Experience in establishing or enhancing AI-assisted software engineering practices (desirable).

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first working environment across the UK.

• Work abroad policy available.

• Access to co-working spaces.

• 34 days of holiday (including flexible bank holidays) plus your birthday off.

• Company-wide off-site events.

• Optional Personal Development Plan.

• Flexible benefits platform.

• Life Insurance coverage.

• Income Protection plan.

• Critical Illness cover.

• Pension plan with up to 5% matched employer contributions and optional increased contributions.

• Private health and dental care.

• Potential share options available.

• Enhanced family leave policy.