Tech Lead - Go & React

• Role Title: Tech Lead

Department: Engineering

Role Summary

As a Tech Lead at CreateFuture, you will use your technical and leadership skills to lead

and support diverse client projects. Depending on the engagement, this includes

hands-on coding, software architecture, solution design or delivery leadership and project

management, ensuring a high standard of delivery in everything we do.

We focus on high-value, high-impact client outcomes, and we’re not afraid to challenge

the status quo. You should be curious, pragmatic, and operate well in ambiguous

environments.

As a technology consultancy, it’s important for us to not only deliver reliable, scalable

solutions but to be looking at future trends and other high-impact developments. Your

curiosity for technology and its application to business opportunities is highly valued

within the company. We are disrupting consultancy through the use of Artificial

Intelligence and radical thinking in our approach. We're doing something different, and

that’s realising significant benefits for our clients. We want you to share that same

ambition.

You will also manage a team of technical direct reports, who are themselves working on

client projects, for whom you will provide actionable feedback, technical guidance and

mentoring, fostering a continuous improvement, growth and consultancy mindset.

You will work with clients at every level to understand their problems, set expectations,

and maximise business value, representing CreateFuture as an engagement lead.

Role Requirements

● Proven, hands-on technical leader delivering complex software.

● Demonstrate thought-leadership; supporting our clients and colleagues to

understand, through modern technology and process, what is possible for their

business/craft.

● Line-manage a team of engineers while maintaining personal delivery

contributions.

● Commercial experience in at least one: Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript (backend

or frontend).

● Commercial experience with at least one major cloud (Amazon Web Services,

Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and modern infrastructure practices

(containers, continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure as code).

● Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning, and risk/issue/dependency

management; escalates early with clear options and impacts.

● Communicate designs and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical

stakeholders.

● Skilled in difficult conversations and actionable feedback; sets clear standards and

holds people accountable.

Desirable:

● Tailor ways of working (Scrum or Kanban) to context and drive continuous

improvement.

● Experience in change transformation projects that involved significant Artificial

Intelligence adoption.

● Breadth across multiple languages or disciplines (e.g., Rust, test automation,

DevOps/platform engineering).

● Experience across multiple clouds and cloud-native services.

● Contribute to recruitment and pre-sales in a consultancy context.

● Represent CreateFuture in the external tech community.

Role Responsibilities

Technical leadership:

● Communicate designs, trade‐offs, and constraints in the context of client goals.

● Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; make pragmatic

technology choices.

● Contribute code where appropriate; set engineering standards; ensure reviews,

testing, and maintainability.

● Troubleshoot complex issues; drive root‐cause fixes and follow‐up actions.

Delivery leadership:

● Own technical outcomes: scope, estimate, plan, and track to agreed goals.