Lead Full Stack Engineer

We’re looking for an Lead Engineer to join our Application Platform Team, who combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, capable of guiding teams delivering high‑quality, production‑ready solutions.

• Comfortable with cloud‑native environments (Kubernetes, Helm, Git Ops) and working alongside platform teams
• Proven experience shipping production code, ideally in cloud environments
• Solid CI/CD knowledge (pipelines, testing, deployment) with tools like Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, or Octopus
• Prioritises code quality, testing, and standards as a given
• Familiar with Kubernetes patterns, ArgoCD with Crossplane, secrets management, and multi‑cloud (GCP/Azure)
• Good understanding of observability (e.g. New Relic) and what “good” looks like in production
• Able to set direction, not just follow – comfortable working cross‑functionally
• Experience managing engineers and supporting team growth
• Works effectively in Agile teams and keeps processes pragmatic
• Strong communicator, able to engage both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ability to take high‑level requirements and translate them into sound technical designs — decomposing complexity into logical, implementable components that the team can build with confidence.
• Encourages knowledge sharing through practical approaches (pairing, documentation, etc.)
• Experience with Elasticsearch preferred — designing and operating search solutions in production, including indexing strategies, query optimisation, and relevance tuning. Familiarity with Elastic Cloud is a plus.