Tech Lead (Python)
Department: Tech
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Brighton
Reporting To: Engineering Manager
Compensation: £70,000 - £75,000 / year
Description
As a Tech Lead at Tillo, you'll oversee a group of Engineers, guiding them in project execution and ensuring the team’s productivity. This role will balance people management with hands-on technical leadership. You'll play a crucial role in mentoring and guiding the Python Team to enhance their technical skills and professional development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
This role offers a unique opportunity to blend technical execution with people leadership, contributing significantly to both team and product success.
You will join a world-class team in the business of making people smile. Our Platform connects our customers to rewards and incentives from 2000+ brands that people love, all via our seamless, easy-to-use API.
We’re the market leader in the UK and are active in a number of other markets including Europe, Australia, and India. This year we will continue to expand our presence in the US as well as setting up operations in new countries.
If successful, you will
* Coach and develop Python Engineers, enhancing their coding skills and technical proficiency
* Establish and maintain technical standards, architecture, and best practices for Python development
* Unblock developers and resolve technical challenges
* Make technical decisions considering various constraints
* Provide mentorship and foster a culture of continuous learning
* Lead the full development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to implementation
* Collaborate with the Product Team to align technical solutions with company vision
* Serve as the technical escalation point for Python-related issues
* Contribute to security initiatives and ensure adherence to best practices
About you
You're a highly organised Python Engineer, with a proven ability to develop engineering teams, instilling engineering best practices and processes.
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
* Proficiency in Python, ideally from a scaled API-first business
* Experience in leading & mentoring engineering teams
* Experience with DevOps practices and tools in Python environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines)
* A strong understanding of software design patterns, algorithms, and data structures
* Familiarity with cloud platforms
* The ability to break down large problems into smaller, manageable solutions
* A commitment to continuous learning
Benefits
We offer all our employees trust and empower our team to work with flexibility and autonomy. We’re a close-knit team and love working collaboratively. With our hybrid model, our team can come together at our fantastic office in Hove, but also focus in their own space. The Tillo team are a motivated bunch and we all work hard to push Tillo forwards, always innovating. We completely understand the importance of work/life balance and offer a supportive and collaborative working environment with the following benefits:
* 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
* Annual Bonus Scheme
* Designated Shares Options for all employees
* Private healthcare
* Enhanced Family Leave Policy
* Quarterly staff engagement surveys - to listen and act on the employee voice
* Regular employee wellbeing activities, including company lunches and away days where we do everything from helping local charities to traditional team building activities
* Retail discounts
* Raising money for a charity outside of work? We’ll match your donation with our charitable matching contribution
* Well stocked drinks fridge and snack cupboards
* Cycle to work scheme
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