Tech Lead - Web Engineering

Tech Lead - Web Engineering

Location: London / Hybrid / Remote (UK)

Term: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £60000 - £80000 + excellent benefits

About the job:

We are seeking a Tech Lead to spearhead the Web Engineering Department at Focusrite Group. You will be responsible for advising on solutions for web products, facilitating adherence to best practices, leading long-term technical strategy, optimising our infrastructure and cloud platform, contributing, and reviewing code, ensuring system security, and participating in the hiring of engineers.

This role demands a deep understanding of web technologies, coupled with an ability to work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your expertise will be pivotal in guiding the direction of our web product portfolio and your leadership skills will be instrumental in fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical advice to the product team concerning web/connected technologies.
• Conduct experiments to prove the use of emerging technologies and foster a culture of innovation.
• Define and ensure adherence to best practices for coding and team collaboration.
• Promote and implement DevOps practices to minimise infrastructure dependencies.
• Develop and communicate long-term technical strategy with the team.
• Collaborate with the platform team to optimise infrastructure and cloud platform performance.
• Contribute to and review code to maintain the quality of the codebase.
• Ensure that our systems adhere to best practices.
• Participate in hiring engineers, conducting interviews, and refining job descriptions.

About you:

• You are a strategic thinker with the ability to devise and implement technical solutions.
• You are a self-starter with a strong ability to work independently.
• You possess excellent leadership and communication skills.
• You are passionate about fostering a culture of technical excellence within a team.
• You are adept at translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in leading full-stack web development initiatives.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and the ability to mentor and guide a development team.
• Experience architecting, designing, and implementing REST APIs and content management systems.
• Expertise in implementing and managing robust continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Proficiency in employing infrastructure as code practices, particularly with Terraform.
• Strong understanding of web infrastructure tooling including CDN, databases, in-memory caches, and others.
• Extensive hands-on experience with cloud platforms, notably AWS, and experience building in serverless environments like AWS Lambda.
• Proficiency in managing and optimising PostgreSQL databases.
• Comprehensive knowledge of best practices in web development.
• Familiarity with both dynamic languages (like JS, PHP) and strongly typed languages (like TypeScript).
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience conducting technical interviews and promoting a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and setting up and maintaining automated testing across the application stack.
• Nice to Have: Experience with eCommerce and integrating with payment gateways. Experience developing content management systems (preferably Drupal and Contentful). Experience with modern front-end frameworks, such as React.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under eleven established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research and Sonnox. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

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