About the role

MyEdSpace is an education technology platform that connects the best teachers on the planet with the students who need them the most - wherever they are, whatever their means. Backed by $15m in Series A funding from some of the leading investors in the space, we're ready to scale - and we want you to help us build and scale MyEdSpace as part of a collaborative and ambitious team. We're on a mission to make a world-class education accessible to all. We believe that every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of geography or socioeconomic background, to achieve their dreams and build a brighter future. If you’re motivated by solving meaningful problems and creating real impact through your work on a societal level and make a real impact on the world - we’d love to hear from you! Job Title: Tech Lead Experience: 8+ years commercial experience as a Software Engineer Location: Remote / Flexible (UK timezone overlap required) Compensation: Competitive + bonus upside Your Impact at MyEdSpace We’re looking for a Tech Lead who cares deeply about building great products and well-structured systems — whether your strengths lie in backend, frontend, or across the stack. You’ll guide technical decisions, help navigate trade-offs, and support engineers in delivering high-quality work. The role spans three key areas of responsibility: - Technical leadership — coding, pair programming, peer reviews, and driving software and architecture design. - People management — running 1:1s, supporting career progression, and ensuring a strong feedback loop. - Product collaboration — working closely with product and design to shape scope, prioritise effectively, and align on outcomes. We're building both the system and the team that will take us to the next stage — and you'll have real influence on how we scale, structure, and evolve our technology. What You’ll Be Doing - Lead and mentor a globally distributed team of engineers, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture. - Set the bar for technical excellence, promoting best practices across architecture, CI/CD, testing, and code quality. - Drive a DevOps mindset — engineers own what they build, from design to deployment and beyond. - Architect and deliver scalable, maintainable systems and features with measurable impact on learners. - Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate adaptive, personalized learning into our platform. - Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and data to shape roadmap, scope work, and align on outcomes. - Continuously improve how we build software — from delivery speed and reliability to team workflows and technical decision-making. What We’re Looking For - Senior engineering experience in product-led, fast-paced environments — ideally with time spent leading teams or large projects. - Strong software architecture skills — API-first, modular design, async comms, scaling patterns. - You work AI-first: LLMs and agentic tools are part of your daily workflow, not an experiment. - Experience across the stack — deep backend expertise and comfort navigating modern frontend frameworks (React.js preferred). - Fluency in Agile and Lean methodologies, you think in terms of shipping value in small increments, not running ceremonies. - Comfortable working in Docker-based, cloud-native environments (we use AWS). - A track record of shipping user-facing products that are performant, elegant, and thoughtfully engineered. - Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset — you're comfortable working across disciplines and time zones. Perks & Benefits - Flexible working hours - Competitive compensation with significant upside - Access to the latest AI tools & productivity software - Global, mission-driven team with a strong sense of purpose OUR HIRING PROCESS We aim to keep the process efficient, transparent, and focused on mutual fit: 1. CV Screening