Tech Lead - Go & React

Location: United Kingdom; remote UK. Flexible hybrid and remote options are available, with occasional travel to client sites or hirify.global offices when needed.

Company

hirify.global is a technology consultancy delivering reliable, scalable software solutions and using artificial intelligence and modern technology to create high-impact client outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead architecture, solution design, technical documentation, and pragmatic technology choices for complex client projects.
• Contribute code where appropriate, set engineering standards, and ensure reviews, testing, maintainability, and root-cause fixes.
• Own technical delivery outcomes, including scope, estimation, planning, timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, and actionable backlogs.
• Line-manage engineers, provide technical guidance and actionable feedback, run team rituals, address performance issues, and support continuous improvement.
• Build trusted client relationships, translate business needs into technical plans, manage expectations and trade-offs, and represent hirify.global as the engagement lead.
• Contribute to hiring, delivery practices, pre-sales, and the external technology community.

Requirements

• Proven, hands-on technical leadership delivering complex software.
• Commercial experience in at least one of Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript, on the backend or frontend.
• Commercial experience with at least one major cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with modern infrastructure practices, including containers, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong delivery fundamentals covering estimation, planning, and risk, issue, and dependency management, with early escalation and clear options and impacts.
• Ability to communicate designs and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to handle difficult conversations, give actionable feedback, set clear standards, and hold people accountable.

Nice to have

• Experience tailoring Scrum or Kanban ways of working to context and driving continuous improvement.
• Experience with change transformation projects involving significant artificial intelligence adoption.
• Breadth across multiple languages or disciplines, such as Rust, test automation, or DevOps and platform engineering.
• Experience across multiple clouds and cloud-native services.
• Experience contributing to recruitment and pre-sales in a consultancy context.
• Experience representing a consultancy in the external technology community.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working with hybrid and remote options.
• Flexible time management focused on impact, collaboration, client time, and focused work rather than rigid activity rules.
• Supportive and friendly culture with investment in professional and personal growth.
• Office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London, and Bulgaria, with occasional travel when needed.

Hiring process

• Call with the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Role-specific capability interview.
• Depending on the role, a short presentation, practical or technical task, or values-focused conversation may be required, with details provided in advance.