Software Team Lead

Job Description

Software Team Lead

Bristol Hybrid
Full-time Monday to Friday 37.5 hours

55-65000 DOE

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Software Team Lead to join a growing technology and product development function. The role offers the opportunity to combine hands-on software engineering with technical leadership and people management working on products that have a genuine positive impact on peoples lives.

You will lead a small multidisciplinary software team and play an active role throughout the development lifecycle from understanding user and business requirements through to architecture development testing release and ongoing enhancement.

This is a hands-on leadership position so alongside managing and developing the team you will remain closely involved in software development and contribute directly to the codebase. You will help establish strong engineering standards encourage innovation and ensure solutions are both technically robust and aligned with customer needs.

• Lead support and develop a team of software engineers and QA professionals creating an environment focused on collaboration learning and high performance.
• Provide technical guidance and remain hands-on with software development contributing to the teams codebase and setting a strong example of engineering best practice.
• Make effective use of modern AI-enabled development tools such as Claude Code and similar technologies to enhance productivity code quality and technical learning.
• Help the team adopt AI development tools in a practical secure and responsible manner.
• Maintain a strong focus on the end user ensuring software solutions address genuine customer needs and deliver measurable value.
• Use customer feedback product information and available data to influence technical and design decisions.
• Work alongside product and technology leadership to establish development roadmaps that balance customer priorities commercial requirements and technical improvements.
• Facilitate effective planning and prioritisation across the team.
• Contribute across the full software stack including user interfaces core application functionality data storage integrations bug fixing and the introduction of new technologies.
• Help shape scalable reliable and high-performing software architectures using appropriate design principles and engineering standards.
• Develop high-quality maintainable C# / .NET 8 applications and associated automated tests.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing code increasing its reliability testability performance and maintainability.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across software electronics UX product and other technical disciplines.
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand challenges and translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Promote continuous improvement across development methodologies team processes and engineering practices.
• Support the Head of Software Development with recruitment team growth and wider departmental initiatives.

• Contribute to maintaining a robust quality management framework and support ongoing improvements to processes and standards.
• Ensure software development activities are undertaken with appropriate consideration of data protection security privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Handle confidential and personal information responsibly and in accordance with relevant legislation and company procedures.
• Support organisational sustainability objectives through responsible and efficient working practices.
• Promote accessibility and user-focused development throughout the product lifecycle.
• Follow all relevant health and safety procedures and contribute to a positive inclusive and professional working environment.
• Demonstrate high standards of integrity professionalism and accountability when dealing with colleagues customers and external stakeholders.
• Encourage an environment where diversity equality respect and individual contribution are valued.

We are looking for a technically capable software professional who is ready to take the next step in their leadership career or who already has experience managing a software development team.

You will combine strong C# development expertise with the ability to coach others influence technical decisions and work effectively with product and non-technical stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a collaborative agile environment and will have a genuine interest in understanding the people who use the products they develop. You should be curious about emerging technologies including AI-assisted development while maintaining a strong focus on software quality security and responsible engineering.

• Strong commercial experience developing software using C# ideally 8.
• Previous experience leading mentoring or managing software development professionals.
• Strong understanding of software architecture…