Technical Lead

PURPOSE OF THE JOB The Tech Lead owns the technical solution of one delivery squad from end to end: how it is designed, built, tested, secured and run in production. Working side by side with the squad's Product Owner, the Tech Lead turns business needs into a technical plan the squad can commit to, and takes the technical decisions within the squad's scope, in line with Pluxee's architecture principles and Global platforms. The role is hands-on. The Tech Lead codes, reviews code, pairs with developers and uses AI-assisted engineering (GitHub Copilot and Pluxee's engineering agents) to raise both the speed and the quality of delivery. The Tech Lead also leads the squad's developers day to day and is accountable for their growth and performance. The squads build, run and modernise the benefits platforms of Pluxee Belgium & Luxembourg for clients, consumers and merchants, including the Phoenix platform (Java), which is moving from a monolith to a React front end and services on Azure. ORGANISATION: Reports to the Head of Digital Solutions Engineering. Leads the developers of one squad (typically four to six, internal and external) and works daily with the squad's Product Owner and QA engineers, the Release Train Engineer, the Architecture chapter and DevOps. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Technical ownership · Owns the technical design and decisions of the squad's products, and explains them · Breaks epics into technical stories that meet the Definition of Ready, and estimates them with the team in story points · Keeps the solution consistent with Pluxee's architecture principles and Global assets, consulting the Architecture chapter on decisions that cross squads · Makes technical debt visible and agrees with the Product Owner the share of capacity reserved for maintenance and debt reduction Delivery and quality · Accountable, with the Product Owner, for the squad delivering what it commits to in each sprint and Program Increment · Sets and enforces the squad's engineering standards: code review, automated testing, and CI/CD with quality and security gates · Owns the technical part of the Definition of Done, including production readiness, monitoring and documentation · Tracks and improves the squad's delivery metrics: lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and time to restore Run and security · Owns the squad's applications in production together with Operations: incident analysis, root cause and permanent fixes · Governs the squad's open-source dependencies: register, regular reviews, vulnerability remediation within agreed times · Ensures good handling of secrets, certificates and access in the squad's code and pipelines People and AI-assisted engineering · Leads the squad's developers: coaching, objectives, feedback and input to evaluations · Drives the use of AI-assisted engineering (GitHub Copilot, engineering agents) with clear guardrails, and measures its effect · Keeps the squad's technical documentation usable by both people and AI agents · Takes part in the Tech Lead community to share practices across squads COMPETENCIES · 8+ years of software engineering, including 3+ years as Tech Lead or Lead Developer of an agile team · Strong hands-on expertise in Java (Java 17+, Spring Boot) or .NET (C#), and in designing REST APIs; React is an asset · Experience modernising legacy systems step by step while they stay live in production · Proven experience working within Scrum or SAFe squads: PI Planning, Definition of Ready and Done, story-point estimation · CI/CD and DevOps practice: Git (GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps), pipelines, automated tests, container deployment on Azure · Daily use of AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot or equivalent) · Secure coding (OWASP), dependency and secrets management · Relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL) and messaging (ActiveMQ, Azure Service Bus) · Experience in payments, cards or employee benefits is an asset PERSON SPECIFICATION · Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience · Leads by example: hands-on, takes ownership of decisions and explains them · Coaches and develops people; builds one team out of internal and external developers · Communicates clearly with Product and business stakeholders · Metrics-minded: uses data to improve how the squad delivers · Fluent English; French and/or Dutch is a strong asset · Comfortable in an international matrix organisation, working with Global teams and external partners · Delivery-driven and pragmatic – focused on outcomes, not on process for its own sake