Job Description

We're on the lookout for a Technical Squad Lead who's as passionate about clean, scalable backend engineering as they are about leading brilliant engineers. If you thrive on solving complex problems, championing engineering excellence, and driving innovation across teams this is your next move.
As a hands-on technical leader, you'll guide a squad of engineers to design, build, test, and ship high-quality backend solutions. You'll set the technical direction, raise standards, modernise our tooling and SDLC, and empower your team to deliver at pace.
Interested? Take a look at the below to understand what you'll be doing in your role as a Technical Squad Lead at Evri!

• Designing and delivering efficient, scalable, end-to-end applications
• Writing high-quality, well-tested code that aligns with modern frameworks and engineering best practice
• Leading engineers of all seniorities, setting goals, and driving performance
• Keeping applications secure, up to date, and fully aligned to our engineering policies
• Driving DevEx improvements, CI/CD standardisation, and automation
• Owning the SDLC - collaborating closely with Test to ensure strong coverage and automation
• Supporting architecture with design decisions, trade-offs, and solution evaluations
• Prioritising and clearing technical debt
• Delivering cost optimisation and driving adoption of AWS best practices
• Managing repos, documentation, environments, pipelines, and engineering hygiene
• Running demos, championing innovation, and pushing forward POCs

Still interested? Great news! Here's what you'll bring:

• 8+ years' experience in backend software engineering
• Deep experience with Java, Maven, Spring Boot, TypeScript
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, WebSockets & cloud-native engineering
• Hands-on expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Fargate, CloudFormation/CDK)
• Solid grounding in CI/CD, DevOps automation, and modern SDLC (Scrum, BDD, TDD)
• Experience leading engineers and driving delivery in agile environments
• A passion for collaboration, coaching, innovation, and raising the engineering bar

At Evri, we know we only grow if our people do too. That's why we're committed to building a truly inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can bring - and be - their whole authentic selves. We're on a journey to better represent the customers we serve around the UK. We're committed to removing barriers and ensure that each person at Evri is valued for who they are, and what they bring to our business.
We are Evri. Where everyone is welcome.
We're excited for the future. Let's deliver it together.
Every parcel, every person, every place - every delivery made for you.
Evri is leading the way in creating responsible delivery experiences for everyone, everywhere. And we're doing that by offering the most convenient way to send, receive and return parcels without costing the earth.
Whether it's a customer sending a present to a friend, a marketplace trader shipping in bulk or a major retailer such as John Lewis, asos or Next, we've got it covered. With our team of 30,000 couriers, thousands of local ParcelShops and a growing network of hubs and depots across the country, we safely get parcels from A to everywhere.
And it's not just customers and retailers who trust us. We've won loads of industry awards over the past few years, including gongs for IT, innovation and our green fleet.
But we wouldn't be the biggest dedicated parcel delivery company in the UK without amazing people. We're a friendly, ambitious and diverse bunch, united by a passion for delivering the best customer experience. We have great opportunities throughout the business, so take a look to see where you might fit in. We can't wait to hear from you.

Skills Required