Technical Lead

📆 40 hours per week, permanent role
🌍 UK, Remote
💰 £80k - £90k (We're transparent about our salary range. As a key leadership role, the starting point will reflect your experience and expertise.)

Why Hertility?

Hertility Health is transforming women’s health, putting fertility and reproductive care at the forefront of conversation and care. We’re a CQC-approved provider offering at-home hormone health, fertility testing, and end-to-end clinical support. 🚀

Our mission is powerful yet simple: to give women the tools they need to manage their health from menstruation through menopause, with expert support every step of the way. ❤️

Why You’ll Love This Role

As a Technical Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our technical direction and leading a talented team of engineers. We’re seeking an experienced and versatile engineering leader to guide our Customer Pod, owning the delivery of our web and mobile platforms to support customers in their Reproductive Revolution.

This role is perfect for a natural leader who excels at both hands-on engineering and people management. You will be responsible for line managing engineers, driving their career development, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality features. You will own the technical roadmap for your team, collaborate closely with product and design stakeholders, and drive architectural decisions to ensure our platform is scalable, robust, and secure. If you're passionate about making a tangible impact in women's health through technical leadership, this role is for you! 🌸

Your Responsibilities 🌟

Technical Leadership & Delivery:

• Drive the architecture, planning, and end-to-end delivery of new product features and technical initiatives.
• Line manage and mentor the career growth of engineers within your pod through regular 1:1s, code reviews, and pair programming.
• Own and improve your team's delivery process, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure timely and high-quality releases.
• Lead technical planning and architectural sessions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals.
• Act as the primary point of contact for technical incidents during working hours, ensuring swift resolution.

Engineering Excellence & Strategy:

• Champion and drive improvements in engineering efficiency, tooling, and practices (e.g., CI/CD, observability, testing frameworks).
• Demonstrate expert command of our core tech stack (Typescript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, React-Native, Terraform, AWS, and Github Actions), and lead technical decision-making.
• Apply knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to help build a platform that is secure, stable and scalable
• Utilise expert debugging skills with tools like Datadog to establish robust monitoring, alerting, and error-handling strategies.
  

Collaboration & Communication:

• Drive clear, effective communication within the engineering team and act as the key technical representative with product, design, and other business stakeholders.
• Own the engineering team's visibility to the wider business by leading technical showcases and cross-functional planning sessions.
• Provide both technical and pastoral support to your team, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.

What We’re Looking For 🎯

We're seeking a Technical Lead to join our remote-first engineering team. This is a critical leadership role for someone passionate about technical innovation, team empowerment, and making a significant impact.

• Leadership & Mentorship: You have proven experience in line management and mentorship, with a passion for developing and empowering engineers.
• Technical & Architectural Proficiency: You have expert-level proficiency in our tech stack and a track record of making key architectural decisions for complex, scalable systems.
• Strategic Communication: An exceptional communicator, you effectively translate business requirements into technical solutions and articulate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative Mindset: A true team player, you thrive on collaboration, actively sharing knowledge, creating a culture of learning, and driving team success.
• Adaptability & Ownership: You excel in a remote, flexible environment, demonstrating strong self-management, prioritisation skills, and a proactive approach to owning outcomes.
• Curiosity & Growth: You're keen to learn and grow, challenging the status quo and innovating continuously to improve our products and processes.
• Passion for Our Mission: You're deeply passionate about Hertility Health's mission to revolutionise women’s healthcare and eager to contribute to its success.

Your Team 💪🏼

You will be reporting directly to our Head of Engineering, Jack Pickard. You’ll work alongside our other Technical Lead, Alexandros Spyropoulos, and collaborate with the broader Engineering, Product, and Data teams, our Founders, and the entire business.

Our Culture & Values 🌈

At Hertility, we’re all about ovary-acting with purpose! We believe in a world where every womb has access to the healthcare it needs. We’re bold, focused, dependable and proud - lifting each other up, working with heart and staying true to our mission.💪

Flexibility in this Role

We are looking for someone to work with us for 40 hours per week. Our operating hours are between 9am and 6pm from Monday to Friday.

Ready to Apply? 📅

Apply by: 3rd October 2025

Interviews Begin: 6th October 2025

Interview Process:

1. Initial Phone Interview: A 15-minute conversation with a member of our Talent Team to get to know you better and answer any initial questions.
2. Behavioral & Values Interview: A structured interview with Jack Pickard, our Head of Engineering, focusing on your leadership experience and alignment with our values.
3. Technical & Architectural Discussion: You’ll be asked to complete a task ahead of this interview designed to assess your architectural thinking and technical leadership. This will be followed by a discussion with Jack Pickard (Head of Engineering), Tulsi Patel (Director of Product), and Alexandros Spyropoulos (Ops pod Technical Lead).
4. Final Interview: A final 15-minute conversation with Natalie Getreu, our Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer.

Start Date: Ideally 1st November 2025

If you’re excited to lead a team that’s redefining women’s health, apply now! We can’t wait to meet you. 🚀

Perks & Benefits 🎉

🌴 33 Days of Paid Leave: Includes public holidays, plus discretionary additional time off between Christmas and New Year. This is pro-rated if you’re not full time.

🎄3 Days Discretionary Additional time off between Christmas and New Year.

💻 Company Laptop: The tech you need to succeed!

🏠 Fully Remote: Work from anywhere with the flexibility to do what matters most to you.

🕒 Flexible Working Hours: We trust our team to manage their time and deliver results.

💼 Pension Scheme: 5% employer contribution salary sacrifice pension with a 4% employee match.

💆 Mental Health Support: In house counselling available anytime.

🩺 Free Hertility Services: Complimentary hormone and fertility tests for you, plus discounts for friends and family.

👶 Enhanced Parental Leave & First-Time Parents Benefits: Support through all stages of family life.

🩸 Menstrual Leave: Supporting health and wellbeing.

💰 Financial Advisor Access: Get guidance on financial planning.

🏖 Work from Anywhere: Enjoy one full month each year to work from anywhere in the world!

🌍 We’re Here to Support You At Hertility, we want every candidate to feel comfortable and confident throughout the hiring process 💛. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s interview timings, communication preferences, or accessibility support, just drop us a line ✉️. Let us know how we can help! 😊

🤝 Diversity & Inclusion Just like the diversity in every cell, Hertility thrives on a range of perspectives and experiences. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the unique contributions each team member brings to our work. 🌍