Technical Lead (Portal & Applications)
About Lightfoot
Lightfoot builds connected-vehicle technology - in-cab driver coaching, vehicle safety products and fleet telematics. Our software supports real hardware in real vehicles, with customers including Tesco, Asda, Ocado, Virgin Media and Iceland.
We’re big enough to have established products and engineering teams, but small enough that strong technical decisions can still change the direction of the company.
We’re rebuilding the software Lightfoot runs on - the customer portal, the APIs behind it and the mobile app - in Python, React and React Native on AWS. We’re also changing how we build software: stronger architecture, better automated testing, secure-by-default delivery and agentic development used properly on production systems. We’re looking for the technical leader who will shape that transition and lead the team building it.
Type: Permanent, full-time, Monday to Friday.
Location: Remote. We’d want you to attend our Office in Exeter, Devon roughly every two or three weeks, usually with an overnight, for the things that are genuinely better done together - architecture sessions, kicking off important work, retrospectives and time with the team. Not for the sake of being seen.
About the role
This is first and foremost a technical leadership role. You’ll lead the Applications engineering function, but we’re not looking for a manager who has stepped away from engineering. We want someone who can set technical direction, make architectural decisions, raise the engineering bar across the team and stay close enough to the detail to know whether those decisions are working.
You’ll be responsible for
- Leading the architecture of our next-generation platform across backend, web and mobile.
- Shaping the migration from our existing PHP/MySQL...
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