Tech Lead

At MyEdSpace, we find the best teachers on the planet and empower them to become the most inspiring, tech-enabled educators, able to reach the students who need them most - wherever they are, whatever their means.

Because we believe that every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of geography or socioeconomic background, to achieve their dreams and build a brighter future.

We achieve this by combining top teaching talent with cutting-edge technology, delivering engaging lessons and offering meaningful support to students and their families.

Our vision is ambitious: to revolutionize education, empower millions of students globally, and provide high-quality learning opportunities that transform lives.

We have just completed our Series A from top-tier investors and are ready to scale - we want you to lead the charge with us.

If you’re a top-performer, incredibly ambitious, and excited to redefine an industry on a societal level and make a real impact on the world - we’d love to hear from you.

**The Practical Bits**:
**Job Title**:Tech Lead

**Manager**:VP of Engineering

**Contract Type**:Permanent employee or employer of record (depending on location)

**Salary**:Highly competitive + bonus upside

**The Role**:
We’re looking for a Tech Lead who cares deeply about building great products and well-structured systems - whether your strengths lie in backend, frontend, or across the stack. You’ll guide technical decisions, help navigate trade-offs, and support engineers in delivering high-quality work.

Beyond hands-on contributions, you'll play a key role in shaping a collaborative engineering culture rooted in technical depth, product thinking, and thoughtful design. We're building both the system and the team that will take us to the next stage, and you'll have real influence on how we scale, structure, and evolve our technology.

**Who We're Looking For**:

- Strong backend engineering background, PHP or Java, with the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable services. Familiarity with React.js or similar modern frontend frameworks is a bonus.
- Senior engineering experience in product-led, fast-paced environments - ideally with time spent leading teams or large projects.
- Strong software architecture skills - API-first, modular design, async comms, scaling patterns.
- Fluency in Agile and Lean methodologies, with a pragmatic approach to process and change.
- Comfortable working in Docker-based, cloud-native environments (we use AWS).
- A track record of shipping user-facing products that are performant, elegant, and thoughtfully engineered.
- Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset - you're comfortable working across disciplines and time zones.
- Excited by the potential of AI and LLMs to transform learning.
- A builder’s mindset - you bias toward action, care about craft, and love iterating toward better outcomes.
- Bonus: Experience with education platforms or familiarity with the UK/US education systems

**What You'll Do**:

- Lead and mentor a globally distributed team of engineers, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
- Set the bar for technical excellence, promoting best practices across architecture, CI/CD, testing, and code quality.
- Drive a DevOps mindset - engineers own what they build, from design to deployment and beyond.
- Architect and deliver scalable, maintainable systems and features with measurable impact on learners.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and data to shape roadmap, scope work, and align on outcomes.
- Continuously improve how we build software - from delivery speed and reliability to team workflows and technical decision-making.

**Our Hiring Process**:

- ** CV Screening**

We review your experience, technical foundation, and alignment with the role.
- ** Introductory Call with Hiring Manager**

A 45-60 minute conversation to discuss your background, what you're looking for, and how we work.
- ** Coding Exercise**

A take-home or live session designed to assess practical skills — architecture, clean code, testing, and problem-solving.
- ** Technical Interview**

A deep dive into your engineering approach — we’ll explore past projects, technical decisions, and systems thinking.
- ** Culture & Collaboration Interview**

A final conversation to assess team fit, communication style, and alignment with our values and ways of working.
- Note: You may choose to do a pair programming exercise. In that case, steps 3 and 4 will be combined_

**Our values**

**PUT INTEGRITY FIRST** Honesty matters. Tell the truth, and be straight-up. Be transparent and do the right thing. This builds respect and reliability for our students, families and team members.

**KNOW YOUR COORDINATES** Understand where you are and where you want to get to. Know your strengths and acknowledge your gaps. Think from first principles. Question things, and never pretend to know what you don't.

**RAISE THE BAR** Own it an