Spectrum IT Recruitment
Lead Full Stack Software Developer
Job Description
Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong full stack development experience, ideally 10+ years
- 5+ years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience
- Solid background in system design and scalable architectures
- Experience building large, production SaaS platforms
- A clean-code mindset, including SOLID principles, design patterns and testable code
- Experience working in mature CI/CD and continuous deployment environments
- A commercial mindset when designing and delivering software
- Excellent collaboration skills and confidence working with stakeholders
- Interest in using AI to accelerate and improve software development
- Passion for performance, security and engineering best practice
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience
- Lead technical delivery across a high-performing development squad of 10+ people
- Contribute to solution design, system architecture and domain modelling
- Build proof-of-concepts and spike complex or uncertain areas of work
- Break down requirements into deliverable epics and user stories alongside product and initiative managers
- Develop and deliver production-ready code across the full stack
- Ensure high standards of quality, maintainability, performance and security
- Support and improve live systems once deployed
- Influence technical direction, tooling and best practice across the wider engineering function
- AI
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Support
- JavaScript
- Security
- TypeScript
- AWS
- DevSecOps
- NodeJS
- Redis
- SQL
- Snowflake
- Vue
- microservices
- Fullstack
More:
We are a fast-growing UK SaaS technology company that builds data-driven digital products used by commercial teams to better understand and engage with their customers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a modern cloud-based stack, working from early design through to production delivery and deploying to live environments on a daily basis. The role offers hybrid working within Hampshire, including one day per week in our Fareham office, along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We offer a strong engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and community and charity initiatives including volunteer days.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Spectrum IT Recruitment
Southampton
IT
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£90,000
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£85,000
UK median
This salary is 6% above the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks