Technical Lead Full Stack

Bango plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic technology company in Cambridge is seeking a Technical Lead Full Stack to guide their Engineering Team. This role involves owning the technical architecture and system design while collaborating with product teams. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record with modern JavaScript frameworks and cloud technologies, alongside strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Join this exciting environment where you can make a significant impact.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous share-option scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan

25 days holiday

Gym discount

Free snacks and drinks

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as an engineer in a commercial development environment.
• Experience delivering commercial full-stack applications using JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience with cloud technologies and databases.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical representative for the team and coordinate during escalations.
• Spend around 60% of your time writing code and designing solutions.
• Ensure software aligns with standards and enables integration with other teams.

Skills

Commercial full-stack web-based applications

Next.js and React

Agile development

Troubleshooting skills

Strong communication

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

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Bango enables content providers to reach more paying customers through global partnerships. Bango revolutionized the monetization of digital content and services, by opening-up online payments to mobile phone users worldwide. Today, the Digital Vending Machine drives the rapid growth of the subscriptions economy, powering choice and control for subscribers. The world’s largest content providers—including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—trust Bango technology to reach subscribers everywhere. Bango, where people subscribe.

Role

At Bango, the Technical Lead is responsible for the technical leadership, quality, and innovation within their Engineering Team. You lead through your technical credibility, influence, and systems thinking, not through line management. You shape how the team builds, learns, and improves. You own and evolve the technical architecture and system design of the solutions the team builds, based on input, guidance, and requirements from Bango’s Product or Delivery teams. It is crucial that you understand Bango’s customers and how the solutions you build benefit or impact them. You will share this understanding with the members of your team, guiding and collaborating closely with them.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical representative for the entire team, and coordinator during escalations.
• Remain hands‑on, typically spending around 60% of your time writing code and designing solutions.
• Own and evolve the technical architecture and system design for solutions within a team.
• Ensure software designed and architected aligns to Bango standards, that it does not needlessly re‑invent existing solutions and enables other teams to integrate effectively.
• Collaborate with other technical leads and teams where dependencies or shared components are identified.
• Responsible for leading definition of work and collaborating with Product Managers or Technical Integrations Specialist to break down high‑level requirements into tangible work items your team can create solutions for.
• Key contributor to Bango’s engineering principles and best practices.
• Guide and work with the team to understand Bango’s customers.
• Promote team ownership on areas such as quality, stability, and performance.
• Prepare technical documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Create clarity in delivery through architectural leadership and pragmatic trade‑offs.
• Support an open culture of collaboration and communication within the team.
• Support the team with technical mentoring and adoption.
• Participate in code‑review processes and provide detailed feedback where required.
• Collaborate with other members of the technical leadership community, enabling other teams through knowledge and sharing.
• Lead technical presentations both internally and externally to the team.
• Amplify others, making great engineering work visible inside and outside the team.
• Review processes regularly, identify potential improvements, and present them to the technical leadership community to improve standards across Engineering.
• Experiment and de‑risk initiatives, adoption of technologies, design patterns, or processes.

Essentials

• At least 5 years experience as an engineer in a commercial development environment.
• Proven experience delivering commercial full‑stack web‑based applications using Next.js and React. Expertise with any other JavaScript framework can be considered.
• Experienced in leading and implementing changes with software development teams.
• Strong troubleshooting skills combined with good analytical and pragmatic problem‑solving skills as an individual, as a team member and as a leader.
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles, including the commitment to deliver solutions in small, incremental releases.
• Passionate about technology and enthusiastic, capable of hitting the ground running.
• Able to influence and manage internal stakeholders to ensure customer objectives are understood and met.
• Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS, Google, or Azure.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Elastic‑search).
• Ability to develop and experiment with higher‑level languages such as Python.
• Understanding of and professional experience with Linux (process management, memory management, signals, etc.) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) including its benefits.
• Working experience in Agile development teams and understanding of development processes and concepts.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, both spoken and written.
• Able to manage your own time and handle multi‑tasking.
• Experience in dealing with complex technical challenges and escalations.
• Understand lower and higher‑level architectural concepts.
• Able to demonstrate understanding in development paradigms and common design patterns.

Desirables

• Hands‑on experience with cross‑border projects across multiple time zones and different business cultures.
• Experience working with customers and customer‑facing teams.
• Knowledge in networking, CDNs, caching, etc.
• Experience working and collaborating with Technical Project Managers.
• Experience in mentoring and developing engineers of varying levels and backgrounds.
• Good working knowledge of designing and architecting solutions comprised of small, functional services.
• Experience with queuing or streaming design patterns, using technologies such as SQS or Kafka.
• Experience in identifying process issues and driving resolutions forward.
• Flexibility for occasional international travel.

Benefits

• A friendly, informal working environment
• Your own Bango buddy to help you settle in
• Béni‑time (flexible working hours)
• Bango social events
• Choose your own headphones, keyboard & mouse
• Generous share‑option scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• 25 days holiday a year, increasing to 28 days with 4 years service
• Cycle to work, gym discount
• Weekly Pilates & Yoga classes (virtual)
• Financial support for employee activity groups and charitable activities
• Free fruit, drinks and snacks, limitless tea, coffee and good quality espressos
• Company‑branded hoodie to keep you happy and comfortable
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 1Password
• Income Protection
• Bango branded Chillys bottle and coffee cup

Interested in this exciting opportunity? We would love to hear from you!

Location: UK – Cambridge

Job Title: Technical Lead – Full Stack