Tech Lead

Job Description

You'll report into the Director of Technology and will nurture passionate engineers to create next-generation software solutions for Threads. Psychological safety is at the very heart of who we are. We work in Agile squads who are open and value continuous improvement and sharing knowledge. We will provide you with mentorship and the tools for you to learn and further develop within your career, not only as an Engineer but also as a Leader.

We are integrating our client and internal systems to create a next-generation solution to help us to lead in luxury chat-based commerce. We believe what we're creating will set a new path for chat commerce in the fashion industry, and retail overall.

Check out the progression path for this role here.

We are open to flexible working, please ask us at the interview stage.

Requirements

You Will:

• Lead and mentor other engineers in the team
• Contribute to one or several projects at all stages of their life cycle, not just the technical stages, but you may also be involved in problem discovery and product development.
• Nurture the team through development, mentorship, and recruit and onboard new talent
• Design systems and solutions, writing code, automated tests and deployment.
• Learn new technologies and bring this knowledge to the team.
• Ensuring your work and the work of your team is not only deployed but used through measurement and alerting.
• Set goals and development targets for the Engineers within the managed team and support the team with feedback and development plans as they progress;
• Engage with the team’s Product Manager into developing and execution product plans
• Work with the team’s product manager on designing and measuring the success metrics

You Have:

• Experience mentoring engineers
• Experience as a technical leader, guiding technical direction, implementation choices, coding styles and the establishment of best practices
• Expert knowledge in developing services and API's using Node.js
• Commercial experience working at expert level using client-side, CSS, HTML5
• Knowledge of React development patterns and related tools
• Knowledge of AWS services or similar cloud environments
• A good knowledge of technology infrastructure
• A good working knowledge of architectural concepts like event driven development, caching, microservices, CDNs and concurrency.
• Proficient in English, both written and spoken.

At Threads, we always aim to use the best tool for the job. Today’s stack includes, but isn’t limited to: TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Postgres, React, React Native, GraphQL, Webpack, CircleCI, Docker, Terraform, and AWS.

Benefits

Our Benefits and Perks:

• Vitality at Work + Private Medical Insurance plans
• Denplan
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Pension
• Staff discounts
• Enhanced Parent Program + Parental Leave
• The Inclusive Threads DE&I Program
• 25 Days Holiday
• Paid sick leave
• Flexible working

About Threads:

Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.

Threads is in Tech City’s Future Fifty programme which recognises some of the UK’s fastest growing businesses, pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Equity in selection practices

Threads practise equity in selection because we want to provide underrepresented groups with access to opportunities, and us, access to great people. We ask candidates to share their demographic data in the application so that we can prioritise under represented groups in the first part of our selection process to provide an equitable funnel. All candidate offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If we have two candidates at the final stage, we choose the best candidate for the job.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and have committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities. We are working towards improved employment practices to ensure those with disabilities receive full and fair consideration for all types of vacancies as well as for training, career development and promotion. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.