Technical Lead - Full or Part time
AutoTrader UK
Overview
In this Technical Lead role, you steer engineering efforts with vision and practical know-how, guiding a diverse team to deliver robust software. You balance leadership with hands-on coding, shaping systems and architecture while mentoring others. You collaborate with leads to define a long-term technical vision and help recruit and grow talent. This role offers a collaborative, hybrid environment and the chance to influence a fast-growing automotive platform.
Pay / Benefits- salary 70k+
- annual bonus via shares (10%)
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- private medical cover
- pension scheme with employer contributions
- car salary sacrifice scheme
- Lead and mentor a diverse engineering team in an inclusive, high-performing environment
- Deliver software projects efficiently by optimizing team output and collaboration
- Contribute as an engineer through coding, design, and system shaping
- Support recruitment by evaluating candidates and participating in hiring processes
- Conduct code reviews and foster continuous learning and improvement culture
- Collaborate with other leads to define and execute the long-term technical vision
- Leadership in guiding and nurturing teams to reach their potential
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance
- Software engineering background with comfort across languages and tools
- Proven track record delivering technical projects
- Strong collaboration and knowledge-sharing mindset
- Web application design and RESTful API know-how in a microservices context
- Structured programming approach (TDD) and expertise in architectural/system design
- Proficiency with SQL/relational databases
- collaboration
- continuous improvement
- communication
- microservices architecture
- RESTful APIs
- web application design
Reference: WJ-747_30181693