Technology Lead Remote - UK - altusgroup

Compensation Range:

£90,000–£120,000

Compensation Disclaimer: The salary range listed reflects the base pay for this role at Altus Group and is provided where required by local regulations. Actual offers may differ based on experience, market conditions, and other relevant factors. The range does not include additional compensation such as bonuses, equity, benefits, or other incentives.

Job Summary:

Altus Group is building modern, AWS-native platforms and is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead who combines strong engineering expertise with technical leadership. This role serves as a senior technical voice on the team, responsible for writing and reviewing production code, driving architectural decisions, and owning mission-critical services end-to-end. The Tech Lead will raise the technical bar through mentorship, strong engineering practices, and clear decision-making while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Ownership & Architecture

Own system design for complex, high-impact initiatives from analysis through implementation

Take end-to-end ownership of mission-critical services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long-term sustainability

Manage and reduce technical debt strategically

Design cost-efficient, cloud-native solutions

Engineering Excellence

Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, observability, security, and documentation

Champion automated testing and “shift-left” quality practices

Promote DevSecOps principles to embed security and compliance into development

Lead through thorough code reviews, design documentation, and retrospectives

Delivery & Collaboration

Drive delivery of complex, multi-phase initiatives

Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Architects to shape the technical roadmap

Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions

Identify risks early and proactively remove blockers

Cloud & Infrastructure

Build and evolve AWS-based, cloud-native systems (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch)

Own both application code and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code, e.g., Terraform)

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments

Support incident response and continuous reliability improvements

Mentorship & Team Enablement

Provide technical mentorship and architectural guidance

Support hiring and onboarding of engineers

Encourage thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted development tools

Key Qualifications:

Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Senior Engineer owning complex systems in production

Strong hands-on AWS experience and cloud-native architecture expertise

Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Java, Node.js, etc.)