Technical Lead, Software Development, Backend Developer

About us

We’re approaching our tenth birthday and have gone from being a little-known tech start-up to creating our very own community at the heart of the tech and digital epicentre of the UK – Greater Manchester. We also have a significant presence in the South West (Malvern/Cheltenham), where this role will be based.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to building an inclusive, safe and supportive environment that allows everyone to do their best work. We are happy to support any accessibility or neurodiversity requirements that you may need during the recruitment process.

Working on a variety of projects that range in length from a few weeks to 5+ years, the role of a Technical Lead is to own the overall technical solution, and guide the technical delivery of a project, with the key aim of reducing risk and improving project outcomes.

You will act as the primary technical point of contact for the customer and other stakeholders (partners, suppliers, Naimuri management).

Your responsibilities include solutions architecture and delivery roadmap, along with supporting the customer in decision making.

You will engage regularly with other technical leads across the company, both seeking and providing support. This will include time allocated to individual projects, as well as wider engagement.

• Building a data analytics tool using a Neo4J graph database.
• A Dev Ops platform to support 3000 users.
• Processing digital forensic data to enable search and insight generation.
• A search and reporting system backed by an Elastic Search cluster.
• A custom workflow tool using Camunda, with a React/TS front‑end
• An AI assurance capability
• Orchestrating a data pipeline and designing specialist metrics for the evaluation of the performance of LLMs in different contexts.

• Understands the technical aspects of the project and the wider customer business model.
• Solution architecture, including security, availability, observability, scalability, performance, reliability, and cost‑efficiency.
• Ensures team members understand and adhere to project standards for quality, documentation, techniques and tools.
• Identifies, escalates & manages technical risk with Team Manager and/or Delivery Lead.
• Supports Delivery Lead and Product Owner with backlog prioritisation.
• Seen as a role model and mentor by the team.
• Actively drives and enhances Agile project workflows by contributing valuable insights during stand‑ups, retrospectives, and other key ceremonies to accelerate team performance and continuous improvement.
• Provides input for longer‑term technical roadmaps.
• Challenges detail design choices within the team.
• Leads reviews on others’ designs.

• Designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining software solutions.
• Full‑stack development using front‑end technologies such as React, integrating AWS services and open‑source tooling, using a variety of different databases (e.g. MongoDB or Elastic Search) and developing in Java, Type Script or Python.
• Integration of AI into data processing and user workflow systems.
• Working with our Platform Engineers to help manage and maintain their own infrastructure e.g. Kubernetes.
• Building and adding to automated delivery pipelines (using Git Lab).

Naimuri pays competitively within the industry based on your role’s base location rates. The salary for this position is dependent upon your experience. We assess seniority relative to the team at Naimuri during the interviewing process.

A full‑time working week is 37.5 hours and you have flexibility over when you give that time. We also offer part‑time working which can be discussed during the recruitment process.

Our core hours are 10:00 am – 3:00 pm and our office hours are between 7:30 am and 6:00 pm Monday to Friday. Most teams have agreed ‘in‑office’ days to enable collaboration. You may also be required to attend a local customer site regularly or on occasion to travel to other customer sites in the UK or the Naimuri office in Greater Manchester.

• Flexible/Hybrid working options
• A performance bonus
• Company bonus
• Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%
• AXA group 1 medical cover
• Personal training budget
• Cycle to work scheme