Technical Lead

You're stepping into time of evolution at Opus 2 where we are moving toward autonomous squads that fully own their outcomes including roadmap, quality, bugs, testing, and reliability. You should bring either experience with transformations like this, or the adaptability and excitement to help build the future alongside us. As Tech Lead, you'll guide your squad through this transformation, ensuring engineering excellence while building strong, trust-based partnerships with Product and Design. You'll be a key counterpart to your Product Manager and Designer, working cohesively as a trio to deliver technology that is not only robust and scalable, but also aligned with user needs and business priorities.

Squad Ownership of Delivery & Quality

• Empower your squad to own not just feature delivery but also bug triage, automated testing, and ongoing technical maintenance.
• Act as a change agent, helping your squad adopt modern practices like CI/CD, automated testing, and shared ownership of bugs, while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Technical & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead system design and technical strategy in partnership with Product and Design, ensuring decisions balance technical quality, user value, and delivery speed.
• Act as a strong, collaborative counterpart to Product Managers bringing clarity on technical trade-offs, recommendations, and helping shape achievable roadmaps.
• Work with Designers to ensure engineering execution supports high-quality, user-centered experiences.
• Collaborate with Architecture and DevOps.

End-to-End Accountability

• Ensure your squad is accountable for the full lifecycle: planning, delivery, quality, support, and iteration.
• Drive reliability and performance, ensuring features meet both user needs and operational standards.

Mentorship & Domain Influence

• Mentor engineers within and beyond your squad, promoting ownership, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.
• Serve as the go-to expert in your domain, unblocking other squads and setting engineering standards that scale.
• Be AI literate with the ability to translate business opportunities into safe, scalable, and value-driven AI solutions or leverage AI across the SLDC to deliver great product.

Strategy, Hiring & Scaling

• Anticipate domain/value-stream shifts; propose strategy and sequencing to align with business needs.
• Support squad hiring and growth through active participation in technical screening and onboarding.

What Success Looks Like

• Product, Design, and Engineering work as a cohesive trio, delivering solutions that meet user needs and technical standards.
• Squads deliver features with strong test coverage, minimal rework, and reduced production issues.
• Roadmaps are both ambitious and achievable, shaped collaboratively between Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Engineers grow in technical depth and autonomy, with strong mentorship and clear technical direction.

• 10+ years in software engineering, with demonstrated leadership of delivery through squads or projects.
• Experience leading or thriving within engineering transformations such as moves to CI/CD, automated testing, or empowered cross-functional teams
• Proven success partnering with Product and Design to deliver user-focused, technically sound solutions.
• Familiar with Java, Typescript and AWS services.
• Strong system design and architecture expertise in distributed systems, cloud hosted, API-first platforms, and multi-tenant SaaS.
• Experience driving end-to-end delivery ownership, including automated testing, CI/CD, and operational support.
• Excellent communicator-able to frame technical trade-offs in the context of user value and business impact.

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world's leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you'll receive:

• Contributory pension plan.
• 33 days annual holidays, hybrid working, and length of service entitlement.
• Health Insurance.
• Loyalty Share Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
• A day of leave to volunteer for charity or dependent cover.
• Accessible and modern office space and regular company social events.