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Contract: 6-month contract
Location: Remote, Europe Day
Rate: €150-200 per day DOE
Start: ASAP
We’re supporting a UK SaaS business building a new European engineering team to deliver a major product modernisation programme.
We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Team Lead who can lead a small cross-functional squad while remaining technically close to the engineering work.
The initial project will focus on modernising a legacy SaaS platform, rebuilding key areas of the frontend in React and improving the architecture around existing services and APIs.
The environment is highly AI-enabled, with AI development tools embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. We’re therefore looking for someone who has already adopted AI-assisted engineering or is genuinely enthusiastic about working this way.
What you’ll be doing
• Lead and support a small team of software engineers
• Take ownership of technical direction and day-to-day engineering delivery
• Help modernise a large existing SaaS application
• Lead the migration and rebuild of legacy frontend functionality into React
• Make pragmatic decisions around architecture, APIs, maintainability and technical debt
• Work closely with Product, Design, QA and Engineering stakeholders
• Run technical discussions, code reviews and engineering ceremonies
• Coach engineers and maintain high engineering standards
• Identify blockers, dependencies and technical risks early
• Support planning, estimation and delivery against agreed milestones
• Use AI-assisted development tools across coding, testing, documentation and engineering workflows
• Maintain strong standards around testing, security, reliability and production quality
What we’re looking for
• Previous experience as a Tech Lead, Team Lead or hands-on Engineering Manager
• Genuine line management or people leadership experience
• Strong software engineering background
• Strong experience with React and modern frontend development
• Experience working with APIs and modern web architectures
• Experience modernising legacy applications or delivering major migration programmes
• Strong understanding of software design, testing, CI/CD and production engineering
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery responsibilities
• Experience working in Agile, cross-functional product teams
• Strong stakeholder communication skills
• Comfortable working in environments with limited documentation and taking ownership quickly • Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot or similar is highly desirable
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