Lead Software Engineer

About Made Tech

Our aim at Made Tech is to use human‑centred technology to improve society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.

We primarily write and deliver custom software for the public sector, working across central and local government, as well as in health. Technical excellence for us isn’t about delivering to feature lists; we place a strong emphasis on outcome‑based delivery, ensuring our customers’ goals are understood and achieved with the technology we deploy.

High‑performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to iterate rapidly and deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this we combine extensive cloud automation knowledge with a Dev Ops culture. We document architecture and infrastructure as code, using Terraform and OpenAPI, and use containerisation, AWS Lambda and server‑less patterns. Dev Ops is about culture rather than titles;

your biggest impact will be coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build.

Teams use Java, Ruby, Python, ES6 with React, and C# with .NET Core. Engineers are expected to be keen on learning new technologies and maintaining continuous deployment pipelines that build, test and release many times per day.

• Written code with tests
• Delivery in an agile environment
• Experience with multiple programming languages
• Experience with databases
• Experience with APIs
• Experience with at least one cloud platform
• Debugging experience across a range of systems
• Evidence of self‑development – keen learner
• Drive to deliver outcomes for users
• Desire to mentor and people manage

• Consultancy experience
• Directly working with customers and users
• Working within multidisciplinary teams including product, design and technology
• Showcasing and presentation skills
• Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
• Pair programming – paired around 50% of the time
• Writing code with test‑driven development
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Component‑based design techniques using pattern libraries, CSS‑in‑JS, BEM, or SUIT CSS
• Debugging infrastructure
• Familiarity with the React ecosystem and test‑driven approaches
• Infrastructure as code technology such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Familiarity with architectural and design patterns
• Use of architectural design records

All successful candidates for this role are required to have eligibility for SC clearance, which requires five years of continuous UK residency and five years of employment history (or full‑time education). Candidates who cannot meet this requirement will not proceed in the interview process.

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible parental leave options
• Remote working arrangements, part‑time remote for all staff
• Paid counselling and financial/legal advice
• Smart Tech scheme, cycle‑to‑work scheme, individual benefits allowance (health care cash plan or pension plan)
• Optional social and wellbeing calendar of events