Tech Lead

We’re looking for a Tech Lead to join our team at Futurice UK. As Tech Lead you care deeply about the success of the team and enjoy the role of mentor to more junior members of the team to help upskill them. You help contribute to a culture of continuous learning and sharing by giving your own opinions and seeking out the perspectives of others.

Does this sound like you?

You’re a technical product expert, with an eye for user experience and latest technology trends; helping clients and teams alike understand why certain features, architecture and technologies should be chosen. You’re stack agnostic with extensive knowledge with both front and back development that covers the full delivery cycle.

Technical skills

• You are equally comfortable with frontend and backend technologies along with their infrastructure. You might have a preference or even a speciality in one of them; however, we'd expect you to be flexible and work across the whole stack
• You still enjoy working hands-on in the code and are focused on delivery goals

Collaboration

• You enjoy collaborating with designers and product owners to innovate and devise great technical solutions to meet user needs
• Familiar with Agile, Waterfall and other delivery methodologies
• You know all the aspects of building a software and can support junior members of the team
• You can help teams to focus on project goals to reach the best delivery outcome

Attitude and preferences

• Whether it's JavaScript frameworks, APIs, databases or DevOps - web is your thing!
• To you, a browser is not just a rendering tool, it's your medium of choice
• Eager to learn and grow in collaboration with wonderfully nice and extremely talented people, mostly in small, cross-functional teams

What you will be responsible for

• Finding the best technical solution for the problem and help articulate it to clients
• Implement complex, multi-layered services using a modern application stack such as ReactJS/Typescript for the frontend and Node.js for the backend.
• Build products with an eye for user experience and help clients understand why certain features and technologies should be chosen
• Mentor and coach more junior members of the team to help upskill them
• Contributing to a high functioning tech team culture, sharing your expertise and learning from others
• Active contributor to project delivery activities to ensure technical risk is managed - this includes release planning, estimation, capacity planning, retrospectives
• Creating team momentum to help drive through uncertainty. You do all this while keeping the project within a time/budget envelope and actively managing risks.
• Helping Futurice clients learn from our agile approach and embed it within their organisations.

At Futurice UK, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. When you join us as a Tech Lead, you'll become part of a team that values your well-being, growth, and contributions.

Here's what you can look forward to:

Our Culture

At Futurice UK, we put people first. Mutual respect and trust are the foundations of our team, enriched by curiosity, talent, and energy. We value self-starters who thrive in a low-hierarchy environment built on Nordic straightforwardness. If you're eager to be part of a culture that emphasises transparency and collaboration, you'll find your home with us.

How we work

We are a dynamic team of designers, strategists, and software engineers dedicated to creating a progressive environment and culture. Operating on a remote-first basis centred in London, we regularly gather in person to collaborate and strengthen our team spirit. We pride ourselves on our craft and our commitment to a people-first, one-team mentality that drives impactful results.

Flexibility

We understand that life doesn't always fit into a traditional 9-to-5 schedule. Whether you're not a morning person or need to pick up the kids from school, we offer flexible working hours and locations. We believe well-rested people produce their best work, so we support flexible arrangements that allow you to balance personal commitments with concentrated, impactful work.

Growth and Development

Your professional growth is important to us. We conduct progression reviews twice a year to provide regular opportunities for feedback, goal setting, and career development. Our flexible work policy supports continuous learning and adaptation, ensuring you have the resources and support to advance your career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary benchmarked externally and internally for salary fairness: Our Lead level banding is £75,000-£100,000
• Company pension contribution of 6% (increasing with tenure)
• Private health insurance with WPA
• 25 days of holidays + 1 extra for your birthday
• 25 days of holidays + plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday too. We offer a long service annual leave scheme of an additional day per year after three years’ unbroken service, up to a maximum of 30 days
• A tiered parental leave policy, which offers 16-weeks maternity full pay and 4- weeks partner full pay (dependant on your tenure)
• A Learning budget of £1200 per year for self initiated learning, books and training courses
• EV salary sacrifice (dependant on your tenure)
• A flexible wellbeing budget of £50 per month (via a Juno platform subscription)
• A remote-first setup with two days per month to co-work together in London

Don’t worry about whether you’re a 100% fit! Take a look at what we do and what we've done and get in touch. Don’t just tell us where you’ve worked or studied, tell us who you are, where you are heading, and why you want to join us!

More about our process

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter explaining why you would like to work at Futurice UK to joinus@futurice.co.uk.

We usually follow the following format for interviews, currently all held remotely:

• 30min video/telephone introductory call
• 1hr interview with 2 people, a developer and a designer
• 1hr tech task interview with 2 developers
• 1hr interview with 2 directors

Salary: £75,000-£100,000

Inclusion and diversity are critical to the success of Futurice, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. We will offer interviews at times that suit your schedule and circumstances. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make the process more accessible and convenient for you.