Tech Lead (AWS TypeScript)

Tech Lead (AWS / TypeScript)

Contract outside IR35. Manchester-based client starting as soon as possible.

The engagement

Youll lead engineering on a high-volume online marketplace part-way through a major multi-year technology transformation. A version 2 build is underway and a move to AWS is under active evaluation as part of that.

The current client-facing platform runs on PHP and Laravel. The direction of travel is a service-based architecture built in TypeScript and Node with PHP likely retained in places. Youll set technical direction across that shift while keeping delivery moving.

Youll need to be hands-on and broad: someone who understands cloud architecture data auth front-end and APIs and has built service-based platforms in AWS an older structure this person would have carried an architect title.

This is a demanding fast-paced environment. Youll need to be productive quickly without a long ramp.

Location and basis

Our client is based in Manchester. While theres no set number of days youre required on site there will be times when the team needs to be together in person for important meetings workshops and key moments. When thats the case wed expect you to attend.

For that reason were only considering candidates based within 50 miles of Manchester.

The platform

This is a genuinely large-scale marketplace. Very few platforms handle a product catalogue or transaction volume at this level.

The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows built into the platform retail media integrated directly into the marketplace and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume.

A lot of this is being attempted at volumes that have rarely been tested in a marketplace before so the work leans research-led rather than routine.

Who this suits

This is a fast-paced scale-up environment on a complex platform.

Youll do well here if you think strategically rather than transactionally and you can advocate for technical change and bring people with you.

What we need

The essentials:

• Principal-level engineering breadth across cloud architecture data auth front-end and APIs

• Track record building service-based platforms in AWS with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK)

• Experience decomposing a monolith into services ideally via the strangler pattern

• You write TypeScript and JavaScript and can read and work with PHP (Laravel)

• You bring AI and agentic workflows into your engineering practice

• You set and hold engineering standards and communicate decisions with authority

• Comfortable leading delivery in a fast-moving complex environment

• Comfortable working in English written and spoken

Nice to have:

• Retail or e-commerce background

• Experience leading through a major re-architecture or cloud migration

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