Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in full-stack software development, including significant experience operating at Senior or Lead Engineer level.
• Experience designing and developing serverless solutions on AWS.
• Commercial experience in Node.js.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead technical initiatives across multiple teams or workstreams with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing, implementing and owning architecture decisions within production environments.
• Proven track record of improving engineering quality and delivery through practical, iterative improvements.
• Experience adopting and promoting modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments where priorities evolve and pragmatic decision-making is essential.
• Familiarity with vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures is nice to have.
• Experience working with containerised applications and modern CI/CD pipelines is nice to have.
• AWS certifications, including Solutions Architect or Machine Learning Specialty, are nice to have.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership within our Engineering team and influence architectural direction.
• Lead architectural decision-making to ensure our platform remains scalable, secure, maintainable and resilient.
• Act as the technical authority for complex engineering challenges, providing hands-on leadership and guidance.
• Advocate for modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, automation and continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, engineering processes and peer review across the team.
• Remain actively involved in development by designing, writing, reviewing and maintaining production code.
• Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, reusable patterns and simplified technical approaches.
• Contribute to delivery planning and estimation, ensuring technical considerations support predictable outcomes.
• Identify, prioritise and reduce technical debt using a pragmatic and commercially balanced approach.
• Partner closely with our Director of Product Engineering to translate product strategy into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Management to evaluate technical feasibility, communicate trade-offs and influence roadmap planning.
• Work directly with customers when appropriate to better understand product usage, technical challenges and future requirements.
• Mentor and support engineers across our team, helping develop technical capability and confidence.
• Foster a culture centred around accountability, engineering quality, collaboration and continuous learning.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Claude Code
• Copilot
• Cursor
• GitHub
• Support
• Java
• Machine Learning
• RAG
• Serverless
• NodeJS
• Cloud
• JavaScript

More:

We are offering a Lead Full Stack Engineer role with a base salary of £70,000 to £80,000 plus benefits. This is a remote-based position with occasional team meets in the Manchester region. We have established a solid platform and a clear vision for the future, and we are looking for an experienced engineering leader who is excited to help drive the next stage of growth. You will work closely with our Director of Product Engineering and play a pivotal role in shaping our technical strategy, engineering standards and platform direction. Our stack includes Java, AWS and Node.js, and we value hands-on leadership, ownership and engineering excellence.

last updated 31 week of 2026