Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Project Mgr​/ Lead

Location: Putney

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Competitive TECHNICAL LEAD, DEPLOYMENT (WORKFORCE)
OVERALL PURPOSE Lead the people, engineering and delivery of our Deployment team – the team that supports the operational elements of every Nandoca’s working life, from getting scheduled and showing up, to learning and developing in role.

As Technical Lead, you’ll own how the team runs and delivers – stand-ups, planning, backlog, architecture and solution design. You’ll also line-manage, grow and develop the engineers.

Your focus is the team and the engineering, rather than day-to-day stakeholder relationships. You’ll be pulled in early where engineering input matters most, such as feasibility discussions, estimating and technical discovery when the solution isn’t yet known.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll stay close to the code by reviewing, pairing and getting stuck into the hard problems, and you’ll own the bar for quality, resilience and security across everything the team ships. You’ll mostly drive that through the team, steering clear of the critical path, but it remains a core part of the role.

Coaching and growing engineers is central to this job. You might already be leading a team, or you might be a senior engineer with a strong track record of mentoring and coaching, ready to take that into formal team leadership for the first time.

Either way, we care that you build a team that is kind, high-performing and safe to be honest in.

THE DEPLOYMENT TEAMOur remit is the operational backbone of every Nandoca’s working life, from scheduling and shift management through to learning, development and reward.

We own the Labour Engine and Employee Services API, our integrations with Rotageek for scheduling and Workday to ensure Nandocas are paid on time, and the services behind Thrive that support learning and skills development.

We’re also actively refactoring and redesigning the Careers Site, with the aim of improving our employer value proposition (EVP), working closely with the Customer Web Experience team.

Our stack today is Type Script and Node, with services built on Bun, Koa and Post Graphile, deployed on Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions with Postgres via Cloud SQL, and infrastructure managed through Terraform.

The Careers Site work brings React, Next.js and Vercel into scope alongside our core backend services.

We integrate closely with Workday and Okta, and we hold our tools with strong opinions, loosely held. We pick what is right for the job, and we’re always happy to move the team’s thinking forward.

STAKEHOLDERS
• Head of Engineering and Architecture and Head of Product and Delivery in the Nandoca delivery group
• Product Managers
• The Deployment engineering team – your team
• People & Operations teams
• Rotageek and other third-party vendors
• Other internal teams reliant on Employee API
• Nandocas across every restaurant – everyone who relies on us to get scheduled, paid and developedRESPONSIBILITIESRunning the team and delivery
• Take ownership of how the team runs, including stand-ups, planning and backlog management.
• Own the team’s overall delivery, including representing it at the weekly delivery forum.
• Keep delivery flowing by spotting blockers early, balancing scope and making the calls that keep the team moving.

Technical direction and architecture
• Be accountable for the technical direction of the Deployment products, including architecture, solution design and the principles that keep our decisions coherent, scalable and sustainable for the long term.
• Keep the products healthy by understanding what we run, why we run it, how it connects to Workday, Okta and the wider Nandoca ecosystem, and where we need to change.
• Bring considered recommendations on new tools and approaches, moving the team’s…