Technical Lead

Location: Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers.

Location: Hybrid - Borehamwood

Package: Negotiable + Benefits

1 year Fixed Term Contract

Brown & Brown Europe is building long-lived, product-led squads with end-to-end ownership of the services they create. You will work in a collaborative engineering environment that values practical delivery, automation, security, quality, learning and continuous improvement.

The day to day

You will lead technical delivery within a product-led squad, combining hands-on engineering with day-to-day technical leadership. You will partner closely with Product and Delivery, while the Lead Engineer provides broader cross-squad engineering leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical design and delivery for the squad while remaining hands-on.
• Turn product priorities into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions.
• Guide estimation, decomposition, dependencies and pragmatic technical decisions.
• Own technical delivery from discovery through release and live support.
• Set expectations for code quality, automated testing, security, documentation, observability and operational readiness.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices to enable safe, repeatable releases.
• Champion peer review, pairing, test-first thinking, small releases and continuous refactoring.
• Coach engineers through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.
• Make technical debt, risks and operational issues visible and lead proportionate action.
• Use DORA, quality and service measures to drive improvement.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Cloud, Security and platform teams within agreed guardrails.
• Support incident investigation and turn learning into preventative improvements.

How we work

• Work in a long-lived, product-led and stream-aligned squad with clear service ownership.
• Follow a Build and Run model: design, build, test, deploy, monitor, support and improve squad-owned services.
• Use a transparent, prioritised backlog and deliver value incrementally through a regular agile cadence.
• Take part in planning, refinement, daily collaboration, reviews, retrospectives, demos and showcases.
• Use Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, including testing, security, documentation and operational readiness.
• Automate build, test, security assurance, deployment and repeatable environment activity wherever practical.
• Release in small, safe increments and use feedback and delivery data to improve.
• Work within shared architecture, cloud, security and platform guardrails.
• Use approved engineering and AI-assisted tools with appropriate security controls and human review.

Our technology environment

• Frontend: React, JavaScript/TypeScript and component-based UI development.
• Backend: .NET, C#, APIs, Entity Framework Core, services and integrations.
• Cloud: Microsoft Azure, monitoring and platform guardrails.
• Tooling: Azure DevOps, Git, backlogs, CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Practices: Automated testing, peer review, secure coding, pairing, test-first thinking and continuous refactoring.

About you

• Strong software engineering experience, with technical leadership experience in an agile team.
• Advanced full-stack capability using .NET and modern web technologies.
• Experience designing, building and supporting Azure-hosted services.
• Strong CI/CD, automated testing, version control and DevOps knowledge.
• Sound judgement across APIs, integrations, data, resilience, security and maintainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical trade-offs clearly.
• Build and Run experience, including production support and service improvement.

How this role is distinct

• Leads technical delivery within one squad.
• The Lead Engineer sits above this role and provides cross-squad leadership.
• Combines leadership with meaningful hands-on engineering.

The rewards

• A negotiable basic salary and all the usual benefits you would expect, including holiday and a company pension.
• A collaborative, open and honest environment designed to deliver the best outcomes for our clients and teammates.
• A flexible working
• An environment built around supporting and developing our teammates, with funding available for relevant professional qualifications.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.