Technical Lead Ruby TypeScript - Developer Experience
Client Server
Overview
As Technical Lead you shape the technical strategy and architecture for Developer Ecosystems, guiding API/SDK design for scalability. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives to expand client libraries and oversee the full lifecycle from design to release. You mentor engineers, review contributions, and foster open-source collaboration while interfacing with the developer community. This role blends hands-on coding with leadership, within a product‑driven, B2B SaaS environment focused on real-time messaging scale.
Pay / Benefits- Salary up to 130k
- EMI share option scheme
- 28 days annual leave
- Enhanced maternity and parental leave
- Personal learning and development budget
- BUPA health insurance + dental + mental health
- Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for Developer Ecosystems (iOS, Web, Infra/Automation)
- Set API/SDK design guidelines for consistency, usability, and scalability
- Lead cross-team initiatives to expand and improve client libraries
- Oversee the full development lifecycle from design to release and ongoing product evolution
- Mentor engineers, review contributions, and raise the technical bar
- Guide external contributors and open-source collaboration; communicate with the developer community to feed product direction
- Senior software engineer with experience building developer tooling and APIs
- Hands-on experience with Ruby, TypeScript and React
- Experience in a product-focused B2B SaaS environment
- Proven ability to make technical decisions that drive projects
- Comfort with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor
- Customer- and product-focused mindset; collaborative and pragmatic; mentoring experience
- Strong CS fundamentals (OOP, Data Structures, Design Patterns)
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- mentoring
- Ruby
- TypeScript
- React
Reference: WJ-747_30162085