Technical Lead

Technical Lead | React Native | TypeScript | AWS Remote UK | £70k-£80kpa We’re working with a growing health and wellness technology business that is investing heavily in a new generation of digital products. They are now looking for a Technical Lead to take a key role in the design and delivery of a modern, cloud-native platform. This is a genuine opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards and technical direction from an early stage, while remaining hands-on with the code. You’ll lead delivery across mobile, backend and web , with React Native forming an important part of the customer-facing product. The environment React Native / Expo TypeScript AWS, including ECS and Lambda RDS and ElastiCache AWS CDK GitHub and modern CI/CD Automated testing, observability and monitoring AI-assisted development tooling What you’ll be doing Leading the architecture and development of a new scalable platform Remaining hands-on with TypeScript and AWS Taking technical ownership of React Native applications across iOS and Android Building and integrating secure APIs and third-party services Establishing strong engineering, testing and deployment practices Owning mobile release processes and app-store delivery Mentoring engineers and helping build a high-performing development team Working closely with product and business stakeholders to turn commercial objectives into technical solutions What we’re looking for You’ll ideally already be working as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or experienced Senior Engineer and have strong commercial experience across: TypeScript AWS React Native applications running in production Modern cloud architecture CI/CD and automated testing Infrastructure as Code, ideally AWS CDK API and third-party integrations Experience with Expo, mobile release engineering, payment integrations, offline mobile applications or health / fitness technology would be particularly useful. This would suit someone who enjoys the combination of technical leadership and hands-on engineering , and wants considerably more influence than they might have within an established engineering environment. Remote within the UK (preference for candidates within a commutable distance from Manchester for occasional team meetings) If you’d like to hear more, apply or drop me a message for a confidential conversation.