🕒 2 days ago
Own technical direction and ship end-to-end AI product features across React, Python, and LLM workflows, solving document-understanding challenges while helping scale the platform and engineering practices.
Lead Developer
📅 Sep 15
PythonJavaC#/.netJavaScript
📜 Description
- Deliver bespoke software solutions and advise clients on technology.
- Contribute hands-on across the full software development life cycle.
- Solve challenging software problems in small, multidisciplinary teams.
- Mentor colleagues and take ownership of significant pieces of work.
- Explore pragmatic solutions and adapt tools and frameworks to the needs of each project.
🛠️ Requirements
- Good experience with at least one of Python, Java, C#/.NET, JavaScript, or TypeScript and its ecosystem.
- Ability to design and build well-structured, maintainable systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach.
- Willingness to try new things, learn new skills, and grow experience.
✨ Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 30 days with each year of service.
- Generous family leave policies.
- Access to an employer pension scheme, and Group Life Assurance.
- A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme.
- A meaningful approach to evaluating your performance and providing feedback on your progress.
Full job description
Lead Software Engineer
We work with some of the UK’s biggest companies and government departments to provide a pragmatic approach to technology, delivering bespoke software solutions and expert advice.
This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development life cycle. You’ll typically work in small, tight-knit multidisciplinary teams, solving tough software problems. You’ll have the opportunity to further develop your career mentoring colleagues, advising our clients, and taking ownership of significant pieces of work.
What are we looking for?
We’re looking for passionate, proactive technologists. We are technology agnostic and use the right language, tooling and frameworks for the job. That means we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset, but we value the following:
What you’ll get in return is
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