lead developer jobs



"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)

About Us 💕

At Tao, we do culture change in 12 weeks from the ground up, using People Analytics & Social Psychology. We’re an original, hard working, progressive & inclusive team of 9 people.


Our tech platform, culturbook, is changing working lives around the world & represents the edge of workplace innovation. We’re growing the team that’s building the future of culture change & inclusion technology, used by international enterprise clients like Sky, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group & more.


Watch a 3 minute sizzler video HERE or a more in-depth 12 minute video HERE.
Watch our Founder talk about our work HERE.

Our Stack 😍

Python, Django, React, Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, Redux, SCSS, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Microservices

As Lead Developer, you'd be 👇🏽

  • Leading our small but growing team of developers to be a joyful tribe that ships high quality product fast
  • Coding our futuristic culturbook platform as a hands on developer, fronted & backend
  • Working with your team & product owner to make sure the team, architecture & technologies are aligned with short term business goals & long term vision

Could this be you? 👇🏽

As a developer: 
  • You’re familiar & skilled in our core technologies, with 5+ years full-stack experience
  • You understand high-level architectural design
  • You’re experienced with micro-services
  • You’re experienced with design & delivery of products from conception through to testing & support
  • You’ve advanced AWS experience & hopefully have DevOps experience

As a Leader: 
  • You’ve some formal experience leading & mentoring
  • You ❤️ leading, coaching, mentoring & managing other developers
  • You’re pretty skilled in running Agile practices & ceremonies
  • You’re setup for remote work

What’s our Culture Like? ☀️

  • Results-focussed: we create an awesome experience, at pace
  • Progressive: we’re passionate about learning, improving, & the latest tech
  • Restless: we’re challenging, proactive, & enjoy taking on the impossible
  • Soulful: we’re kind, gentle, & human
  • Fun: not like ‘spongebob-fun’. But positive, nurturing, light-hearted & enjoying life

What else do we offer? 😇

  • Work that might just make your soul glow: internationally award-winning & reshaping an industry
  • Remote working
  • Five paid days per year to contribute to a not-for-profit cause of your choice
  • A deeply human & non-corporate culture
  • The chance to apply progressive technology to behavioural sciences, & disrupt a sector
  • Work on improving the cultures of some of the world’s biggest organisations
  • Budget for ongoing professional development
  • A protected amount of time per quarter to work on learning new technologies
  • A shiny MacBook with which to be awesome

Thanks for reading this far!


Team Tao