Tech Lead – Full-Stack & Solution Architect - Full-time - UK/London

About the role

AIMS builds creative tooling that lets early adopters compose multi-node AI workflows on a visual canvas, edit media on a timeline and export watermarked, provenance-verified outputs.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can own the direction of our Alpha product, lead a small cross-functional team and contribute across the stack. You will collaborate closely with the Product Owner to turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into a reliable, privacy-respecting product.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural design across front-end, back-end, infrastructure and media pipelines.
• Contribute code as a full-stack developer (React/TypeScript on the client side, Node/NestJS on the server side) and set the standard for coding practices.
• Plan and prioritise work with the Product Owner, writing clear development cards so team members understand the context and definition of done.
• Define and implement coding standards, documentation practices and testing strategies across unit, integration and end-to-end layers.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture. Champion good practice in code reviews, pull requests and technical documentation.
• Work with product, design and delivery colleagues to balance immediate development progress with long-term scalability and reliability.
• Ensure operational readiness: observability, incident response and a reliable deployment pipeline.

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership and architectural design in product teams.
• Strong hands-on expertise with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks on both client and server side, plus relational databases and cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to plan and manage the full software delivery lifecycle, including backlog management, design, coding, testing, deployment and operations.
• Experience mentoring developers, managing technical decisions and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and data protection principles, ideally including UK GDPR.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with media pipelines, message queues (e.g. BullMQ, Kafka), observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and vector search technologies.
• Experience with cloud-native deployments (AWS EKS or similar), GPU workloads or Rust interop.

Why join AIMS?

• You’ll steer the technical direction of a ground-breaking product and build a team that values curiosity, kindness and learning.
• We offer competitive compensation, flexible working and an environment where you can make a real impact.