Studio Tech Lead
Full-time, London
We are hiring a Tech Lead to join the Studio team. This role is explicitly hands-on and delivery-focused. You will act as the technical authority across studio projects: shaping stacks, validating ideas early, guiding build teams, and ensuring work ships on time, resilient, and future-facing; playing a pivotal role in overseeing the end-to-end technical solutions for some of the world’s biggest brands, driving innovation and excellence across the board.
Roles & responsibilities
- Actively investigate, prototype, and test ideas to inform technical direction.
- Contribute directly to codebases when needed (critical paths, prototypes, reviews).
- Define and uphold engineering standards across studio work.
- Define architectures across mobile, web, backend, and physical/hardware-enabled systems.
- Work across SharpEnd's private infrastructure as well as client-mandated stacks.
- Champion reuse of platforms, components, and patterns where appropriate.
- Embed into early creating and scoping phases.
- Validate feasibility and highlight opportunities to push ideas further.
- Identify risk early and shape scopes accordingly.
- Guide engineers across multiple projects.
- Act as escalation point for technical blockers and delivery risk.
- Support prioritisation in collaboration with Studio and Production leads.
- Act as senior technical contact for clients.
- Confidently interface with client, technical, legal and security teams.
Core skills
- Strong experience across mobile and web technologies.
- Solid knowledge of modern JavaScript stacks (TypeScript, React, Next.js).
- Backend and API experience, including data modelling and auth.
- Experience working with physical hardware builds, IoT touchpoints, or embedded systems.
- Comfortable operating across AWS-based environments.
- Proven experience leading technical delivery in an agency or consultancy environment.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and incomplete briefs.
- Trusted to make decisions and move forward rather than waiting for consensus.
- Curious, pragmatic, and unafraid to get hands-on.
- Enjoys variety and multi-project environments.
- Balances experimentation with delivery discipline.
We also value
- Hybrid working style (4 days in office, 1 day remote)