Tyk Technologies is hiring a Technical Lead - EMEA to own and advance all non-functional engineering capabilities across the organization. You will blend deep technical hands-on work with strategic influence, setting architectural vision and delivering scalable solutions used by multiple teams in observability, performance, testing infrastructure, CI/CD optimization, and developer experience.
What You'll Do
- Define and maintain solution design principles and tooling standards for non-functional engineering (testing, CI/CD, observability, quality).
- Design, communicate, and align teams around the target-state architecture for non-functional capabilities.
- Lead architectural decisions, create ADRs, and ensure alignment with wider platform strategy.
- Mentor engineers across the organization on solution design, testing, CI/CD, and quality best practices.
- Advocate for improvements in engineering processes (horizon planning, sprint planning, quality gates).
- Build scalable testing infrastructure, observability frameworks, CI/CD optimizations, and automation tools, primarily in Go.
- Write production-ready Go code — hands-on development, not just planning.
- Analyze data to identify high-impact improvements; establish baselines and quantify ROI.
- Debug systemic issues (e.g., flaky CI pipelines, performance bottlenecks, test infra failures).
- Lead major initiatives end-to-end using Kanban — from problem definition to rollout and impact measurement.
- Translate technical improvements into business cases with measurable value.
- Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points, run pilots, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
- Line-manage engineers within the Non-Functionals team; run 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development.
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience in software engineering with significant work on non-functional capabilities (observability, testing, CI/CD, reliability, developer productivity).
- Proven leadership experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks and principles (e.g., TOGAF).
- Experience designing long-term target-state architectures and architectural blueprints.
- Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements with quantified ROI.
- Experience line-managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers.
- Hands-on experience with both client- and server-side systems.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native environments: Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, testing at scale.
- Experience in performance optimization, test infrastructure, and quality automation.
- Experience with IaC, automation frameworks, and modern software quality tooling.
Nice to Have
- Advanced Go development skills (primary language for frameworks and tooling).
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (resource optimization, deployments, pod management).
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform or similar).
- Familiarity with developer tooling: linters, static analysis, pre-commit hooks.
- Strong API design and integration skills for automation tools.
- Strong understanding of Kanban with knowledge of SCRUM principles.
- Deep knowledge of software quality practices: static analysis, dependency management, security scanning.
Technical Stack
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Team & Environment
You'll be part of the Non-Functionals team, line-managing engineers within that team and reporting to the Head of Engineering Operations.
Benefits & Compensation
- Unlimited paid holidays.
- Total flexibility in hours.
- Employee share scheme.
- Generous maternity and paternity leave.
- Volunteering Days.
- Company retreats.
- Employee Wellbeing platform.
Work Mode
This is a global, remote position open to candidates in the EMEA region.
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
