Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that’s ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden.
The Technical Lead will play a pivotal role in driving the technical direction for services and integrations within the customer domain, ensuring third-party platforms and internal systems work seamlessly together to support the customer journey. You will translate business needs into robust technical solutions, champion engineering standards, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement across integrations, front-end initiatives, and platform performance.
You will work hands-on alongside engineers, architects, and product teams to provide technical leadership, manage the impact of change, and ensure our solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned to our overall technology strategy.
Location: 2 days per week at our North Acton office, with the remaining days WFH.
What You Will Do
Act as the technical authority for third-party services and integrations within the customer domain.
Define, document, and oversee integrations between third-party platforms and internal services.
Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions aligned to architecture and platform strategy.
Provide technical leadership across front-end initiatives and integration work.
Ensure integrations meet engineering standards for security, resilience, testability, and performance.
Assess and manage the impact of third-party changes, identifying and mitigating technical risks early.
Partner with third-party vendors to ensure services are observable and well-supported.
Promote best practices, support cross-team alignment, and contribute to the technical community.
Work closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to support business roadmap shaping, feasibility and analysis.
What We Are Looking For
Prior experience working with practical experience working with commerce, customer, and marketing platforms.
Strong software development knowledge, with a focus on cloud technologies.
Proven experience integrating third-party services and platforms.
End-to-end SDLC experience with solid architectural design knowledge.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and designing and integrating REST and GraphQL APIs, including webhooks and OAuth.
Knowledge planning and running performance testing across systems.
A track record of leading and delivering complex digital or commerce initiatives involving multiple systems and partners.
What We Are Looking For
You communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences.
You take ownership, speak up when something isn’t right, and work collaboratively across teams.
You enjoy solving complex problems and improving how systems work together.
You are proactive, open to change, and focused on quality and continuous improvement.
You are curious about new technologies and interested in AI and emerging capabilities.
You have a strong sense of accountability and technical excellence.
You are confident influencing stakeholders and external partners to achieve better outcomes.
What We Offer
Competitive salary & targeted annual bonus scheme.
Generous Boden clothing allowance.
30% discount on all current clothing ranges.
25 days Holiday annually, plus Bank Holidays.
Online Portal with an array of discounts on retail & entertainment.
Virtual GP Service for you and your household.
Free onsite parking and subsidised café.
We want Boden to be the place everyone wants to work. Friendly, open and tolerant. A best-of-British company with diverse teams, equal opportunities, and fair working and recruitment practices. We believe in hiring the best person for the job, whoever they are, helping them thrive in it and celebrating their individuality.
We would like to encourage people from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply for our roles. If you need any reasonable adjustments or additional support during your application process, please do not hesitate to let us know.
We’re all about happiness you can wear. Our story begins in 1991.
Contrarian. How else would you describe a man who left a good job in the city – working in New York during its shiny ’80s heyday no less – to set up a mail-order clothes company at a time when buying things that got delivered was considered a bit, well, joke-worthy? Or was he just lucky – right time, right place, right instinct?
Johnnie launched Boden with a hand-drawn catalogue featuring eight menswear styles he wanted in his own wardrobe (and wanted to order from his armchair). That was 1991, and back then, catalogues for stylish people who like stylish clothes weren’t really a ‘thing’ in Britain.
Today, after a wild, unpredictable and exciting 30 years, Boden is a global company but it still has the same family vibes. It’s the opinion of the women in his life – his wife Sophie (who pushed him to follow his dream in the first place), his three discerning daughters and Johnnie’s new lovely female sidekick – Janet the dog – that he values over anything.
Originality is also so very important, with every step taken to set Boden apart from the rest. Whether that’s hand-drawn prints, doing our best to make sure we don’t cut corners and even listing words we cannot use (we copywriters love a challenge). Attention to detail is everything, and it shows. Johnnie has also been adamant that every factory we use respects its workforce in the same way he respects his workforce at home. And that Boden uses as many recycled materials as possible.
“His main piece of advice is always be yourself,” his daughter Katie adds. “I think we’re all flawed but that’s the one thing that we [the family] are – very honest. I just think you can’t go wrong by being honest.” And lastly? “He’s also never tried to be cool…which makes him cool.”
Boden isn’t about fast fashion and fads. It never was. It’s about making clothes that put a smile on your face, for a long, long time.
