Technical Lead

Hands-On Technical Lead (JVM/Kotlin) 💰 £115,000 - £130,000 + bonus + excellent Benefits 📍 Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone 1) Want to manage and lead a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy? Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?🌍🌱 Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands-on with day-to-day coding. You'll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. This opportunity is 70% hands-on and 30% people management and line manager responsibilities. What You'll Do

• Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems.
• Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)
• Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset.
• Collaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling, and system design.
• Grow and shape your team 💻 Kotlin (JVM), Springboot, Ktor, AI tooling, AWS, distributed systems, microservices, CI/CD, modern engineering practices and methodologies What They're Looking For
• Deep JVM/backend experience; Kotlin a bonus, but not required.
• Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
• Experience scaling production systems in fast-moving product environments.
• Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact? Apply now and help shape the future of clean energy at scale. 🚗🔌