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Technical Lead

at Kuda

Kuda is seeking an innovative technical lead to oversee a cross-functional engineering squad dedicated to delivering high-performance, user-centric frontend products. This role bridges the gap between complex backend architecture and seamless user experiences, ensuring technical scalability never compromises customer satisfaction.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partnering closely with Product Managers and UX/UI Designers to translate user journeys and wireframes into highly responsive, accessible, and performant architectures
  • Delegating and assigning work/tasks to team members in order to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals
  • Liaising with other technical leads to set standards and engineering policy/procedure documents
  • Advocating for frontend engineering best practices, including component reusability, modular state management, and optimized asset delivery
  • Leading and guiding the team through technical issues and challenges across both the frontend and backend stack
  • Establishing performance budgets and monitoring client-side analytics (such as Core Web Vitals and error-tracking tools) to continuously improve the end-user experience
  • Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible
  • Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements
  • Keeping himself/herself and the team up-to-date with industry trends, frontend advancements, and backend developments
  • Collaborating with security, system control officers, and auditors to identify and remediate possible gaps as a result of design, build, or choice of technology
  • Building and maintaining a high-performing engineering team
  • Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes
  • Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders

Requirements

  • 6+ years of industry experience
  • Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  • Professional certifications are a plus
  • Well versed in systems designs and build
  • Applying software architectural patterns and/or design patterns to engineering problems
  • Practical knowledge of programming and be an experienced user of at least one modern language/ecosystem
  • Strong emphasis on frontend/mobile ecosystems (e.g., React JS, TypeScript, React Native, Swift iOS, Kotlin) alongside robust backend familiarity (C#, Java, Python, etc.) is highly preferred
  • Expert at applying software development/engineering principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, and Separation of Concerns, as well as modern frontend architecture paradigms (e.g., Component-Driven Development, State Management patterns, Micro-Frontends, and Monorepos)
  • Experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS)
  • Experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, continuous testing, observability, post-mortem, and chaos engineering
  • Experience with event-driven and distributed systems and the niche SaaS in the domain such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, etc.
  • Deep understanding of modern web/mobile performance optimization, including lazy loading, server-side rendering (SSR), client-side caching strategies, and CDN utilization
  • A customer-centric mindset with a track record of using data (A/B testing, user session recordings, error tracking tools like Sentry/LogRocket) to drive technical iterations
  • Familiarity or experience collaborating with platform teams on infrastructure technologies such as Ansible, Terraform/Pulumi, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc.

Benefits

  • A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
  • Pension
  • Career development & growth
  • Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
  • Group life insurance
  • Medical insurance
  • Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
  • Perkbox
  • Goalr - employee wellness app
  • Award winning L&D training
  • Work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

Skills

React JSTypeScriptReact NativeSwift iOSKotlinC#JavaPythonSOLIDDRYKISSSeparation of ConcernsComponent-Driven DevelopmentState ManagementMicro-FrontendsMonoreposGCPAWSMicrosoft AzureCI/CDElasticSearchRedisKafkaSSRCDNA/B testingSentryLogRocketAnsibleTerraformPulumiDatadogKubernetesDockerHelm

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