Senior Engineer - Fitness & Wellness Technology - London - £80k + Bonus - Java/ React/ Azure - [...]

Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead – Fitness & Wellbeing Technology

Barbican & Epsom | Hybrid (1 day/week in office)

We're working with one of the UK's largest healthcare and fitness organisations as they re-platform their entire Fitness & Wellbeing technology ecosystem! They are building a best-in-class member app, paperless onboarding, self-service accounts, and end-to-end automated payments and member management.

They're looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead to own technical direction across a workstream spanning Digital, Integrations, Salesforce and Data Engineering.

This is a high-impact, design-and-standards role supporting millions of member interactions - not a line management position (IC role)

This role will be working on a greenfield project (currently in the discovery phase) where you will be re-platforminng their mobile applications, website & back office applications. You will be spearheading a BRAND NEW squad (Spotfiy model) that will include 6 x Engineers + BA/ Architect/ Product Owner

You'll:

• Own low-level solution design, including third-party system integrations
• Act as the accountable lead for engineering quality, consistency and delivery pace across multiple workstreams
• Work closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers and third-party partners to align technical approach
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture and engineering standards end-to-end
• Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to engineering teams (no direct reports)
• Identify and mitigate cross-workstream technical risk
• Support service management transition, ensuring solutions are stable and operationally ready
• Help drive technical decisions + work closely with an Architect/ Head of Dept

You'll bring:

• Strong experience leading technical design and delivery, with ownership of engineering quality and outcomes
• Proven ability to define technical direction and produce high-quality low-level designs
• Broad experience across mobile & web development, API integrations, data engineering and Salesforce
• Hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred) with DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills + able to translate complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working in multi-supplier/partner environments
• Senior Level or in depth understanding with the below + experience leading on projects/ architecture/ Stakeholder management
• React/ TypeScript
• Azure (Open to AWS)
• SQL
• React Native
• Fitness/ Wellness industry experience

Paying up to £80k + Bonus (up to 10%) and 1 day on site in London OR Surrey office

2 stage interview process & very urgent hire