Technical Lead - Product

We're looking for a Product Technical Lead to take ownership of our established AI enabled software product, guiding it through its next phase of evolution - roadmap features, scalability, and user experience as it grows in reach and capability. At the same time, you'll play a key role in shaping and building new product ideas from the ground up, helping Daintta expand its digital product portfolio.

This is a hands-on leadership role that blends strategic technical direction with active development. You'll work closely with product and business teams to define roadmaps, make architectural decisions, and deliver high-quality, production-ready software that meets real-world needs. If you enjoy balancing long-term vision with practical delivery refining proven systems while exploring new opportunities this role offers both.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architecture, and implementation of a complex, user-facing software product.
• Write high-quality backend code in Python, taking features from definition through to release.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to translate product goals into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Make key architectural and implementation decisions to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Guide the development team through Agile delivery cycles, leading sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, testing, documentation, and security.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor developers, supporting their technical growth and productivity.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure technical feasibility and excellent user experience.
• Continuously improve the development process and infrastructure to enhance product velocity and quality. 

Skills/knowledge

• Degree educated, with extensive industry experience.
• Strong background in software engineering, ideally with experience delivering end-to-end software products.
• Proven ability to lead or mentor development teams within an Agile environment.
• Advanced Python development skills, ideally with FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, schema design, and SQL.
• Familiarity with front-end development (TypeScript, React) is highly desirable.
• Experience designing scalable systems and working with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A product-oriented mindset, you care about users, usability, and delivering tangible outcomes.
• Experience in cyber security, data-driven applications, or SaaS platforms is advantageous.

Benefits

We believe in supporting our people both professionally and personally. Here's what you can expect when you join us:

Time Off:

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Up to 5 days annual training leave with a dedicated training budget
• Up to 3 days annual volunteering leave - give back to the community
• Competitive maternity, paternity, shared parental leave & compassionate leave

Health & Wellness:

• Comprehensive Private Health Insurance 
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support services
• £2,000 Flex Cash Allowance, paid pro-rata over the year

Financial Benefits:

• 5% pension contribution 
• Discretionary company awards and bonuses, based on performance and company targets

Professional Development

• Up to £1,000 annual training budget (access to additional training and development budget via business case)
• Up to 5 days annual training leave
• 1 professional membership paid annually
• Up to £200 of additional IT budget for new joiners

Perks

• Free breakfast every Tuesday in the London office
• Fortnightly drinks – in London
• Regular social events, quizzes, and guest workshops
• Huckletree perks – including gym and restaurant discounts
• Employee referral programme
• Monthly breakfast club in our Cheltenham office

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see