Tech Lead - Platform

At Honu we're looking for a Tech Lead to lead our AI Platform efforts.

Full-time London, UK

Honu is looking for a Hands-on Tech Lead to join our small agile team and take a leadership role in delivering our cutting edge platform. We are looking for a top technologist with extensive experience in Python (7+ years professionally) who is a systems thinker, with a strong foundation in software engineering and software design.

You will work closely with our Founder, and will take the lead in design and development of our cutting-edge platform for AI-centric products.

Have a hugely visible impact, building towards our first public release and beyond, as a member of a small, tight-knit team, including working closely with the founder

Architect and develop scalable solutions, that are reliable, secure and extensible.

Lead and mentor the engineering team. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Drive innovation and strategic technical decisions

Advise leadership and the product on key technical considerations related to the rapid developments in tech

Ensure high-quality code and best practices. Write clean, maintainable and efficient code and ensure code quality through TDD and observability practices

Develop RESTful APIs using FastAPI and Pydantic

Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as ORM tools like SQLAlchemy and SQLModel

Participate in Agile XP methodologies like pair programming and code reviews

Deploy applications to Google Cloud Platform using Terraform

Monitoring and supporting production, staging, research, and demo environments

Many years of experience in building complex software solutions, better if in a product company, while armed with a healthy dose of practical skepticism and pragmatism

Believer in easy-to-maintain code and identify with modern concepts such as clean coding, automated testing and continuous deployment

Driven and passionate about building innovative technologies, and able to rally the team around them

Strong systems thinker, able to see the bigger picture at different resolutions simultaneously

You know start-up life, ideally within a PaaS business

You've shipped high-quality products from start to finish and are equally as comfortable building from scratch as you are improving an existing product

Strong background in system architecture and design.

You possess extensive technical proficiency in Python (7+ years professionally) and are comfortable with a range of libraries and, ideally, cloud-based architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure etc. we use Terraform to deploy to GCP)

Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

You're considerate, humble, and a strong believer in teamwork

You're comfortable taking ownership, accountability and responsibility

Experience with the latest agentic frameworks ( e.g. langchain, llamaindex ) and protocols like MCP.

Experience using AI-augmented ecosystem for development like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code.

Based in the UK or Europe

Knowledge of OAuth/API user credential handling

Experience with 3rd-party API integrations

Some front end experience using Next.Js/Typescript/React

Do you want to join our team as our new Tech Lead? Then we'd love to hear about you!