SR2
Technical Lead Java/Fullstack
Job Description
Salary: £75,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial Java experience
- Full-stack experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, and React
- Cloud experience, particularly AWS; Azure is beneficial
- CI/CD experience with tools such as GitLab
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Comfortable engaging with clients and providing technical direction
- Consultancy experience is beneficial but not essential
- Must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years to be SC clearable
- Lead engineers and provide technical direction
- Shape architecture and design decisions
- Work directly with clients to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality software
- Stay hands-on while owning technical leadership
- Work across the full software lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through development, deployment, and ongoing support
- Contribute to complex, mission-critical government projects
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- GitLab
- Support
- Java
- JavaScript
- React
- TypeScript
- Fullstack
More:
We are a growing consultancy working on complex, mission-critical government projects that make the UK a safer place to live. This is a remote-first role with two days a month onsite in client locations, offering a salary of up to £85,000, flexible working hours, hybrid working, 5 days of external training plus a dedicated learning and development budget, a dedicated career coach, technical guilds, matched pension and healthcare, and regular socials and company events. We offer a strong opportunity for a hands-on engineer looking for more technical ownership, interesting projects, and a clear route to progression.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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SR2
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£80,000
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£85,000
UK median
This salary is 6% below the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks