Technical Team Lead - Web Squad

About the role

MECCA is looking for an experienced, hands-on Technical Team Lead to lead one of its web squads and help shape how beauty meets technology. Reporting to the Technical Director, you will lead a team of three to four Software Engineers and work alongside QA, a Designer and a Product Manager, as well as Product, Architecture and Data partners. The squad maintains a large, high-traffic retail website, so the role involves managing release risk and using AI-assisted development responsibly.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, building a culture of ownership, craft and continuous learning.
• Contribute hands-on to solution design, architecture and complex delivery.
• Work with Product Manager, Designer and QA on requirements and technical designs, and run technical spikes.
• Review pull requests, lead code reviews and pair with engineers.
• Define code quality standards and engineering best practices.
• Improve the development lifecycle, including CI/CD, automated testing and frequent, low-risk releases.
• Help the team respond to production issues and drive improvements in performance, accessibility, SEO, security and reliability.
• Surface delivery risks, trade-offs and dependencies early, and evaluate emerging tools and frameworks critically.

Required profile

• People leadership experience, including mentoring engineers.
• 8+ years building production-grade web applications and at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience defining a new workflow or way of working within a team.
• Experience maintaining a large, high-traffic website; retail or e-commerce experience is highly regarded.
• Strong system design skills and a solid grounding in engineering best practices.

Required skills

• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, ideally across Next.js, React and GraphQL (Apollo).
• Backend services and APIs (REST and/or GraphQL), relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• CI/CD, Git workflows and automated testing (unit, integration and E2E).
• Cloud-native environments, preferably AWS.
• Web performance, accessibility and SEO principles.
• Nice to have: AI-assisted development and agentic workflows.NET or C# backends, mobile apps or React Native, serverless, containers and infrastructure-as-code.

What we offer

• Professional development programs and digitised learning.
• Health and well-being initiatives, reward and recognition programs.
• Bonus and incentive programs and a quarterly product allowance.
• Discounts for you and your immediate family, subject to company policy.