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Avanti Recruitment
Java Technical Lead
£80k
- £90k
Surrey
Hybrid
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Description
Avanti Recruitment is currently working with a leading, award-winning FinTech who are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to take responsibility for engineering leadership and delivery. The business provides cutting-edge financial technology solutions to global financial institutions and has been recognised for excellence and innovation across the sector.
The Role
You will be responsible for leading and mentoring the engineering team, ensuring delivery excellence, operational resilience, and platform growth. This role combines technical leadership with people management and requires someone confident in engineering delivery, incident management, platform operations, and client support.
This role will require you in office 4 days per week and located in Surrey. The company is a small team of around 3 Developers, 1 Tester + 8 people (front office)
Key Responsibilities
Hands-on coding / documentation (70-80% of the time)
Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team
Oversee agile delivery, backlog management, and release planning
Ensure platform stability through monitoring, incident management, and post-mortems
Implement robust security and compliance practices
Manage vendor relationships and operational budgets
Support client onboarding and resolve platform-related issues
Experience
Strong background in Java development (Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST)
Experience in engineering management or technical leadership
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code)
Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
Strong incident management skills and operational mindset
Excellent communication skills for both internal leadership and client-facing situations
Interview process:
Initial interview with Head of Engineering
Technical and practical test
CTO / Chairman of Tech Committee meeting
Final stage with CEO
The salary on this position is up to 90,000.
If you would like to be considered for this role then click Apply Now!
Role tech stack
Java
Prometheus
Spring Boot
Kubernetes
Grafana
Hibernate
Docker
Splunk
ELK
Spring
Avanti Recruitment
Java Technical Lead
£80k - £90k
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