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Technical Lead - Python


Company : MCS Group


Location : Belfast, Northern Ireland


Created : 2025-08-09


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Technical Lead | Belfast (Hybrid) | Python / AWS Are you a passionate engineer ready to step into a technical leadership role? We're partnering with a mission-driven company undergoing rapid growth as they transition from consultancy to fully in-house engineering. They're now hiring two hands-on Tech Leads to shape the next phase of their platform and lead small, agile teams building critical infrastructure software. The Opportunity As a Tech Lead, you'll take ownership of a core domain and help steer both technical design and delivery. You'll be supported to grow into people leadership (if you choose), while remaining deeply hands-on. Whether your background is in hardware integration or high-performance trading systems, there's a space here to lead impactful work from the ground up. We're hiring for two distinct Tech Lead positions. What You'll Bring Strong engineering background Solid software design principles and iterative development experience TDD and automated testing expertise beneficial Hands-on experience with CI/CD, trunk-based development, and feature flagging An eye for quality, performance, and scalability A passion for the craft - you take pride in clean code and continual improvement Previous experience leading teams or mentoring engineers Why Join? Shape critical software systems Work in a tight-knit, highly motivated engineering team Real ownership and input into technical direction Support to grow into people management Skills: tech lead principal engineer staff engineer senior leadership