Hybrid Technical Lead

at Orbital

• Job title: Technical Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Python, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Technical Lead developing AI-driven solutions for real estate due diligence. Mentoring teams and guiding innovation while enhancing project processes and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support a talented team of AI engineers and software engineers, mentoring them to create groundbreaking, scalable AI-driven SaaS products that are changing the way Real Estate is transacted.
• Architect and design AI systems from the ground up, ensuring that they are cutting-edge, robust, and scalable to meet real-world challenges.
• Drive the entire development lifecycle—concept to production—taking ownership of projects and the opportunity to see your ideas come to life.
• Work closely with diverse teams—product, AI Engineering, Product Design and Legal Engineering—to bring creative solutions to market that perfectly align with business goals.
• Lead efforts to continuously enhance code quality, reliability, and development processes, driving innovation through automation, testing, and best practices.
• Play a key role in managing the technical roadmap, where you'll balance immediate deliverables with strategic growth and cutting-edge technology.
• Work with the latest frontier models including GPT-5 and Claude 3.5 across text and vision, incorporating them into our platform and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Ensure the scalability of our domain specific AI product, Orbital Copilot, contributing to solutions that not only meet but exceed industry standards.
• Oversee and enforce secure coding practices and compliance with company information security policies, standards, and ISO 27001 requirements across the development team.

Requirements

• Proven experience (3+ years) as a Technical Lead, hands-on engineering manager or similar leadership role in AI/ML, software development, or SaaS start-ups.
• You have a keen interest the latest in Gen AI and LLMs, algorithms, and technologies (e.g., NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and experience with microservices, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• You have hands-on experience with Python, React, Typescript, Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Start-up mindset: positive, enthusiastic, adaptable, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• Matched pension contributions
• Flexible working hours and location
• 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials