Lead Full Stack Engineer
Summary
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Consortia in London: a hybrid hands-on and leadership role writing production JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React) while owning architecture and mentoring engineers. The company's mission is accelerating the clean energy transition.
In this hybrid role you will both build and lead, owning architecture and technical direction while mentoring engineers. You’ll start embedded in the codebase to deliver impact, then scale your leadership to remove constraints and shape the engineering function. You will deliver high‑quality production code and design cross‑cutting solutions that tie key product components together. This role sits at the intersection of hands‑on delivery and people leadership in a mission to accelerate the clean energy transition.
Responsibilities- Own architecture and technical direction across core systems to ensure scalable platform
- Write high‑impact production code across frontend and backend
- Design solutions connecting multiple parts of the product
- Provide structured line management, mentoring engineers and guiding career progression
- Lead performance conversations and raise engineering standards
- Balance quality and pace in an ambiguous, outcomes‑focused environment
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience across frontend and backend
- Solid understanding of API design and relational databases
- Mentored engineers and possibly conducted line management and performance conversations
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward outcomes
- Ability to own problems end to end and influence engineering culture
- leadership and mentorship
- communication and clarity
- ambition to build healthy engineering culture
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- React