Software Team Lead

We are looking for an experienced Software Team Lead to join Ohme's Purchase and Fulfilment (P&F) team. P&F manages and maintains a number of digital products covering the complete customer journey, from initial discovery through to charger installation. The team is split into two squads working together to deliver this end-to-end experience.

In 2026, the team is scaling internationally with AI-powered customer experiences, migrating a legacy Kotlin monolith into domain-driven services and moving frontend applications from Vue to Next.js. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will guide and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and be deeply involved in architecture and delivery across both backend and frontend domains.

You will work from our London office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and support to engineers of varying seniority.
• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of complex systems and features across the P&F stack.
• Review code, enforce standards, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clarity and alignment.
• Advocate for technical excellence in planning and prioritisation discussions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose innovative approaches where they add genuine value.

Delivery and Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into actionable plans.
• Drive execution of projects from conception to deployment, balancing speed with quality.
• Identify and mitigate risks in architecture and delivery timelines.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement in both process and technology.
• Participate in recruitment by interviewing candidates for technical positions.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and communicate relevant developments to your team.

Who You Are

Live our values: Customer Obsessed, Collaboration, Progressive, Brave, Do Good. Be a team player with creative opinions, focused on driving solutions. Always look forward and learn from mistakes.

• Front-end and backend capable: Comfortable across the full P&F stack, with strong TypeScript/Next.js frontends experience and confidence in contributing to Kotlin backend.
• Collaborative: You work well across squads, communicate trade-offs clearly, and bring people along with you on architectural decisions.
• Mentor: You foster a collaborative and inclusive environment, encouraging knowledge sharing and investing in the growth of engineers around you.
• Pragmatic: You balance innovation with delivery, making sound judgements about when to move fast and when to invest in quality.
• Curious: You take the time to understand business context, not just technical requirements, and bring that into how you build.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, or similar role involving leading or mentoring a team.
• Very experienced with developing across a full TypeScript/Next.js frontend stack and experience (or desire) to also work across the full stack – our backend stack is Kotlin with Spring Boot.
• Demonstrated success in system design, architecture, and scaling solutions in a product-first environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a balance of pragmatism and innovation.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for non-technical audiences.

Desirable

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and domain-driven design, including tools such as Kafka and DynamoDB.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CDK).
• Energy sector or EV industry domain knowledge.
• Experience working with observability tooling such as Datadog or Sentry.

Our Benefits

You'll get to work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing scale-up with global ambitions that is cutting edge, passionate about sustainability and seeks to make the world a better place.

• Competitive salary and bonus
• Hybrid office (3 days a week in our London office)
• Private Health Insurance
• Aegon Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme with death in service benefit of 4x salary
• Income Protection Scheme for long term illness
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Payroll Giving Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan to spread cost of travel over 12 months
• Eye Test every 2 years

Ohme is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We actively seek out a diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed and to feel included.