As a Tech Lead, you are primarily responsible for the technical aspects of product development. You will mentor engineers, set technical standards, and make critical architectural decisions while remaining hands-on (50%–80% of your time) on backlog and roadmap delivery. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to build scalable, reliable software and to create a culture of engineering excellence. You will also act as the line manager for your team, owning goal setting, performance dialogs, and ongoing coaching to help individuals grow and succeed.
We’re building a strong new foundation for our company on these products. You will be part of a modern, product-centric technology organisation where agile methodologies and principles are key pillars of our strategy. We’re creating the kind of teams talked about in Inspired by Marty Cagan, and following principles in Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren.
Technology Stack
Our copyright product is primarily running in AWS with the following technologies: - Java Springboot Microservices - DynamoDB - OpenSearch - Postgres - S3 - SNS - SQS - Docker / ECS - OpenTofu (Infrastructure as Code) - Serverless frameworks
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship, set standards, conduct code reviews, resolve complex technical issues, and foster innovation.
Delivery Accountability: Own technical delivery outcomes, balancing scope, quality, and timelines.
Architecture & Design: Collaborate on requirements, define specifications, design scalable systems, select technologies, and align decisions with product goals.
Coordination: Drive cross-functional integration, communication, dependency management, and knowledge sharing.
Line Management: Own goal setting, performance dialogs, coaching, and development plans for the team.
Technical Evaluation: Stay current with trends, assess feasibility, reduce technical debt, and optimise performance.
DevOps Ownership: “you build it, you run it” — own services end-to- end, ensure reliability and observability, lead incident management with business-hours on-call, and improve CI/CD, OpenTofu IaC, automation, security, and compliance.
Shared Responsibilities: Partner with engineering management on engineering excellence, collaboration, planning and prioritisation, mentoring, and process improvement.
Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership and line management.
Technical Expertise: Strong expertise in Java (or similar), modern web technologies, databases, and cloud platforms.
Architecture: Proven ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems.
Hands-on Leadership: Comfortable leading while remaining a significant individual contributor.
Collaboration & Communication: Ability to partner with product, design, and business stakeholders and communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Quality & Delivery: Strong commitment to code quality, testing, and delivery excellence.
Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges.
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ICE is hiring a Tech Lead (m/f/d) - Copyright - Remote or Hybrid
About company
ICE is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders. We simplify the complexities of the music royalty chain through an innovative suite of licensing, processing, and copyright services, enabling our customers to accurately and efficiently compensate songwriters and composers for the use of their works.
A joint venture between PRS, STIM, and GEMA, ICE is the result of a big vision for the industry that harnesses years of combined experience in the multi-territory music market. Serving over 330,000 rightsholders and leveraging a copyright database comprising 55 million musical works, ICE’s operations touch 250+ territories to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, with a total of over €5bn distributed to date.
We’re based in the UK, Germany, and Sweden. Operating at the exciting intersection of technology, music, and data, our partnership with stakeholders across the industry delivers best practice, new processes, and innovative solutions for better royalty flows. With years of experience as ICE and decades more through our parent companies, our collective industry knowledge has enabled us to develop initiatives that benefit not only our own customers, but also the wider industry.