Java Tech Lead

Ref No. 25456
Wales - Cardiff
Posted 28 Jul 2026

Overview

Employment: Permanent

Job description

Java Tech Lead

78k plus a bonus of up to 20% (£93,600 package)

IntaPeople are partnered with a fintech scaleup in Cardiff city centre and are scaling up the engineering team with a tech lead.

About the role:

  • This role is hands on and focused on driving technical direction, there are no people leadership responsibilities involved.
  • You will be working on greenfield projects where you can influence and improve the technical health of the product, whilst being trusted to make major technical decisions. 
  • This role is available due to internal promotion to Engineering Manager. There is an opportunity for similar progression in the future.
  • Tech Stack – Java 25, Spring boot, React, Postgres & AWS.

 

About you:

  • You have proven experience of setting technical direction and driving innovation.
  • You take ownership of driving a product and taking it to the next level.
  • The team have some agentic workflows set up in Claude, so a background with agentic coding and GenAI would be ideal.
  • Hands on experience with Java (Ideally 25) building APIs and microservices with Spring Boot is essential.

About the role:

  • Hybrid – 3 days per week in the Cardiff office
  • Salary – Up to £78,000
  • Bonus – up to 20%
  • Package – Up to £93,600
  • Benefits – Private Medical, 25 days annual leave, Birthday off, Charity Leave, EV scheme etc

For a confidential chat about the role, send a copy of your CV to k.gibbons@intapeople.com and we will set up a call

 

 

Your consultant

Kim Gibbons

IT Team Lead

Get in touch:

k.gibbons@intapeople.com