Lead Full Stack Developer

Who this role is for

You are probably senior at a scale-up or a larger company today. You may have recently moved into a management track and found that you miss building, or you may be at the point where the next step is leading people and you want that step to come with code still attached.

This is that role. You lead, you set direction, you own the relationship with the rest of the business, and you stay hands-on. If you want to run a large organisation, we are too small for you. If you want to stop being interrupted, this is the wrong role. If you want the scope of a lead without giving up the work, this is a good fit.

You are not being hired to stop writing code. The split is roughly 60% hands-on engineering, 40% leading technically and aligning.

What you’ll do

Build (approximately 60%)

• Implement, maintain, and continuously improve a robust, scalable, high-performance backend and cloud infrastructure.

• Take full ownership of architecture and software development across the full cycle, from prototype to production.

• Ensure stable and reliable real-time data flow between buildings and the cloud, including monitoring and alerting.

• Lead the reduction of technical debt and the consolidation of our platform.

Lead and align (approximately 40%)

• Translate commercial and product priorities from the leadership team and internal stakeholders into technical work, and give an honest read on cost, risk, and sequencing before anything is committed. Write these down. Decisions here are made in short documents, not in meetings, and this bullet is most of what you will be writing.

• Contribute to what we build, not only how. Product direction here is shaped by the people closest to the system, and you will be one of them.

• Grow the team. You will define what we need, run technical interviews, make the call on candidates, and own whether people ramp up well.