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Lead Software Engineer

Pay*** · Welwyn Garden City, ENG, United Kingdom
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Job summary

Job Advert Why are we recruiting Are you a Senior Software Engineer looking to progress your career or an existing Lead Engineer with a passion for technology, looking to join and lead an ambitious and growing cross-functional DevOps team? As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven engineering team.

Benefits

If you decide to join us:Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.On-site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membershipOnlinePortal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping oContributory company pension schemeProgression and DevelopmentPrivate medical insuranceElectric Car SchemeLife assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additionaYou’re also able to purchase a range ofLove2shop Everyday

Qualifications

  • Engineering Excellence: Write and enforce clean code that strictly adheres to SOLID principles and aligns perfectly with the defined solution architecture.
  • Security Mindset: Explicitly demonstrate experience designing product features and systems with data and application security in mind from day one.
  • Systems Reliability: Ensure the business operates on performant, reliable systems that consistently meet baseline service levels.
  • AI Integration & Engineering Efficiency
  • AI Tooling & Automation: Champion and oversee the ethical, secure adoption of AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot) within the team to accelerate development lifecycles and automate routine tasks.
  • Agentic Workflows: Architect, evaluate, or integrate AI agents and agentic frameworks to streamline internal operations, automated testing, or enhance product capabilities.
  • AI Governance: Establish clear guidelines for the engineering team on code verification, licensing, and security compliance when utilizing generative AI
  • Experience: 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in a formal technical leadership, team lead, or mentoring capacity.
  • AI Tool Proficiency: Hands-on experience utilizing AI-assisted development

Responsibilities

  • As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven engineering team.
  • You will be providing technical leadership to the Platform team, as well as collaborating with our Solution & Infrastructure Architects to help translate architecture into solution design.
  • Technical Leadership & Architecture
  • System Ownership: Oversee all aspects of development for an entire product or system, taking ultimate ownership of key decisions regarding the overall technical direction.
  • Scalable Design: Design, develop, and maintain technical solutions engineered to support the ongoing growth of the business while meeting functional and non-functional

Skills

CommunicationLeadership

Certifications

Product Owner

Degrees

Associate

Work schedule

NightShift

Industry

AutomotiveBankingInsurance

Company size

EnterpriseSmb

Contract length

2 years