Lead Software Engineer — Product Lead Technologist Business

Lead Software Engineer
- Product Lead Technologist Business £75000 - 82000 GBP benefits Hybrid WORKING

Location:

London , Central London, Greater London
- United Kingdom Type:
Permanent Lead Software Engineer
- Product Lead Technologist Business London | Hybrid (2 days a week in office) | £75,000-£82,000 I'm working with an innovative division of a major consultancy that's growing it's engineering team again. You'd be joining a 180-strong engineering function sitting at the intersection of AI and one of the industries generative AI is set to transform most: services. The platform supports over 2,500 tax and legal professionals and thousands of clients, delivering everything from routine automated advice to complex, high-stakes decisions.

They operate with the energy of a startup ,small autonomous squads, fast iteration, real ownership ,backed by the scale of a global business. The role A hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead a squad of software and QA engineers building products used by professionals and clients alike. You'll partner with a Product Owner who owns prioritisation, freeing you to focus on technical leadership and building world-class solutions.

The role includes line management of around four developers. What you'll bring Hands-on experience designing, specifying and building software end to end The ability to clearly articulate how generative AI can solve document management, workflow automation and knowledge management problems A track record of leading and mentoring engineers Strong experience in a modern object-oriented language (C# or Java) Deep knowledge of software design patterns, clean code and clean architecture Experience building REST APIs and working with messaging systems Confidence defining data models and working with databases Experience shipping user-facing web applications A collaborative, Agile mindset and a passion for best practice What you'll be doing Working in a lean Agile team using a scaled Scrum framework Building back-end services in C#/ASP.NET

Core, with front-end work in Type Script/React, ASP.NET MVC or Blazor Building cloud-first applications with strong unit test coverage, continuous delivery and 100% infrastructure-as-code Containerising and deploying applications via Azure Kubernetes Service Working with Entity Framework code-first data against Azure SQL or No

SQL databases Designing resilient microservices integrated via a cloud message bus Upholding secure coding and infrastructure standards Levelling up your own skills and sharing knowledge across the team Building reusable components other teams can build on Reference: DCLSE dach