Technical Lead – Thursday
About Thursday
Thursday is a rapidly growing singles events company running events, trips, dinners, and activities across 180+ cities worldwide. We're not a dating app — we bring people together in real life. Our team is building the tools that allow us to work effectively at scale: managing events, hosts, and customers around the world.
The Role
We're a small tech team and we need someone experienced to share the load with the CTO. That means being scrappy and helping out wherever it's needed; but also taking ownership of problems end-to-end, making decisions, and helping build the team and shape our culture as we grow.
Some of what you'd be doing:
- Building product — making decisions on architecture, shipping features, and delivering products.
- Running production — you'll care about reliability, security, and what happens when something breaks.
- Growing the team — mentoring others, helping with hiring, setting up processes that help a small team move fast without breaking things.
- Thinking commercially — understanding what things cost, what drives revenue, and whether something is worth building at all.
- Bringing ideas — how we use AI, how we work together, how we ship faster. We want someone who makes the whole team better.
Salary: 60-80k
Who You Are
As a person:
You're entrepreneurial — you think about the business, not just the code. You figure out how we can work better without being asked. You move fast, ship things, and iterate rather than over-engineering.
We want someone who will collaborate, communicate, and be honest about what's working and what isn't. You'll build people up and help us all grow quickly.
We're a company about connecting people in real life. We want someone who values that — who shows up to events, builds relationships with the team and with others, and cares about culture beyond Slack messages.
Technically:
- Experience designing and shipping software professionally
- Confident across the full stack — frontend, backend, database, infrastructure
- Comfortable owning production — deployment, monitoring, debugging, security
- Uses AI tools to move faster
- Picks up new technology and ideas quickly
Right now we mainly use TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL — but we care more about how you think than what you already know.
Nice to have:
- Mobile development
- Payment systems (Stripe)
- Experience scaling up a startup or small team, including team management
- International experience
- Good taste and product sense - understand design and UX
How We Work
- Autonomy — you decide how to approach problems
- Remote but with regular in-person meetups in London and attendance at Thursday events
- Occasional out-of-hours flexibility for production or events, balanced with managing your own time