Technical Lead - EMEA

Job Description

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone. Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees; we believe this allows them to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.

If this sounds like an environment that could work for you, then read on to find out more.

The role:

We’re looking for a seasoned Technical Lead who will own and advance all non-functional engineering capabilities across the organisation, covering observability, performance, testing infrastructure, CI/CD optimisation, and developer experience. They will set the architectural vision, define standards and principles, and deliver scalable solutions used by multiple engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on systems thinker, primarily coding in Go, who can design complex solutions, mentor engineers, and improve reliability and productivity through measurable impact. The role blends deep technical work: building frameworks, solving performance issues, and automating systems with strategic influence, shaping long-term roadmaps, and driving adoption without direct authority.

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:

• Define and maintain solution design principles and tooling standards for non-functional engineering (testing, CI/CD, observability, quality).
• Work closely with the Head of Engineering Operations to refine the domain strategy and propose new technical approaches.
• Design, communicate, and align teams around the target-state architecture for non-functional capabilities.
• Lead architectural decisions, create ADRs, and ensure alignment with wider platform strategy.
• Mentor engineers across the organisation on solution design, testing, CI/CD, and quality best practices.
• Advocate for improvements in engineering processes (horizon planning, sprint planning, quality gates).
• Lead the design and delivery of new non-functional capabilities while developing team autonomy.
• Manage architectural dependencies and ensure domain designs don’t negatively impact other areas.
• Build scalable testing infrastructure, observability frameworks, CI/CD optimisations, and automation tools (primarily in Go).
• Write production-ready Go code — hands-on development, not just planning.
• Analyse data to identify high-impact improvements; establish baselines and quantify ROI.
• Debug systemic issues (e.g., flaky CI pipelines, performance bottlenecks, test infra failures).
• Lead major initiatives end-to-end using Kanban — from problem definition to rollout and impact measurement.
• Translate technical improvements into business cases with measurable value.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points, run pilots, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Line-manage engineers within the Non-Functionals team; run 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development.

Requirements

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in software engineering with significant work on non-functional capabilities (observability, testing, CI/CD, reliability, developer productivity).
• Proven leadership experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks and principles (e.g., TOGAF)
• Experience designing long-term target-state architectures and architectural blueprints.
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements with quantified ROI.
• Experience line-managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers.
• Hands-on experience with both client- and server-side systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native environments: Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, testing at scale.
• Experience in performance optimisation, test infrastructure, and quality automation.
• Experience with IaC, automation frameworks, and modern software quality tooling.

Desired Skills

• Advanced Go development skills (primary language for frameworks and tooling).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (resource optimisation, deployments, pod management).
• Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform or similar).
• Familiarity with developer tooling: linters, static analysis, pre-commit hooks.
• Strong API design and integration skills for automation tools.
• Strong understanding of Kanban with knowledge of SCRUM principles.
• Deep knowledge of software quality practices: static analysis, dependency management, security scanning.

Benefits

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up!

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one!

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count!

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent!

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

• Make things better!

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io