Technical Team Lead We usually respond within a week We are a trusted, specialised consultancy with a mission to bring expert technology leadership to businesses at every stage of their growth journey. Our work spans multiple clients and providers, helping them deliver technology initiatives with precision, strategic alignment, and lasting value. Operating at the intersection of technical excellence and business strategy, we ensure projects not only launch successfully but also drive broader organisational goals. As part of our ongoing support for a key client, we’re seeking a dynamic, strategically minded Technical Team Lead to lead a high-performing backend engineering team responsible for delivering the real-time APIs that power our products and services. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll spend the majority of your time designing, building and improving software while providing technical direction and mentoring the team. Your responsibilities will include: Leading the technical delivery of a team of backend engineers, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to a high standard. Remaining hands-on in software development, contributing to architecture implementation, coding, code reviews and technical problem solving. Driving engineering excellence through best practices, high-quality code, automated testing and continuous improvement. Ensuring our APIs meet performance, scalability and reliability expectations, including latency, accuracy and availability targets. Managing technical risks, dependencies and technical debt, particularly around integrations with external data providers. Collaborating with architects to implement technical solutions aligned with the wider engineering strategy. Coaching and mentoring engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and regular feedback. Supporting recruitment, onboarding and the technical assessment of new engineers. Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, customer-focused solutions while continuously improving our engineering practices. Taking part in on-call rotations, responding to production incidents, and helping us learn and improve from every incident What you'll bring We're looking for an experienced technical leader who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges while helping others grow. Experience within real-time data platforms, sports data, feed aggregation, or other latency-sensitive environments would be highly beneficial A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience). 7+ years of backend software engineering experience, including several years in a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer or similar leadership role. Proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and APIs. Strong experience working with event-driven architectures and production systems with demanding uptime and performance requirements. A passion for mentoring engineers and creating high-performing engineering teams. Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders. A proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement, engineering quality and delivery excellence. What you will work with Java 21 and Spring suite (Spring Boot, Spring security..) Reactive Programming (Project Reactor / Netty) Asynchronous APIs Kafka or RabbitMQ Docker Kubernetes Helm ArgoCD CI/CD pipelines PostgreSQL DBUnit TDD / BDD Prometheus Grafana Micrometer Work Eligibility: Please note that our client is unable to provide visa sponsorship, support work permit applications, or offer relocation assistance for this position. Applicants must have the legal right to work full-time in Ireland at the time of application. Department Software Engineering Role Tech Lead Locations Dublin Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time Applicant tracking system by Teamtailor