Technical Lead - Front End (React) - Work from Home

We are looking to recruit a Lead Software Engineer to join our Engineering Community and take technical ownership of the delivery of our large-scale, operationally critical client projects.

You'll own the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end – from concept through to live operation – while mentoring engineers and helping grow our engineering capability.

• Owning the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end – design, development, documentation and release – ensuring solutions are of a high engineering standard and fit for operational use.
• Defining and owning the technical quality processes for your engagement, including build pipelines, code quality, testing and source control.
• Leading client engagements for development, from project inception through to delivery, acting as the primary technical point of contact.
• Owning requirements analysis and solution design, translating business needs into robust technical architecture.
• Mentoring and supporting the growth of Mid-Level to Senior Engineers, including task-level support and technical quality coaching.
• Contributing to presales and pitches for new work, and building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Building deep expertise in one or more technology ecosystems, and sharing that knowledge across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Taking ownership for impact-assessing change and managing delivery risk.
• Championing the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools within your team, keeping abreast of new tooling and sharing learning across Answer.
• Identifying opportunities where AI-powered capabilities (for example LLM integrations or intelligent automation) could add value within client engagements, bringing in our AI Engineering capability where deeper specialist expertise is needed.
• Hands-on experience leading the delivery of large-scale development projects.
• Agile software development experience with continuous delivery.
• .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, C#, SQL and NoSQL database experience.
• AWS/Azure experience.
• JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development practices and tools.
• Confidence guiding a team's adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and practices safely and effectively.

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we'll help you with them:

• Client-facing experience gained from a technical consultancy or software vendor.
• Experience working directly with executive and director-level stakeholders.
• Experience integrating AI-powered features (for example LLM-based assistants or intelligent automation) into existing applications.
• Experience with platform engineering practices, such as building internal developer platforms, paved-road tooling or self-service infrastructure to improve delivery teams' productivity.

Competitive salary. Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward). Twice a year income-tax free bonus based on company performance - it’s a reward for being a part of our EOT journey. Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide the support you need. Flexible Pension - we match your own contributions up to 5%. A flexible Healthcare cash plan so you can fund the care you value most. Parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here. The chance to give back – get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events. Hybrid and flexible working – you can vary your working when and where you work, to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need to.

Diversity and Inclusion: At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. If you require any adjustments to be made to your application (whether that’s support with our interview questions, adjusting how we interview, or financial support with our hiring process) then please speak to Lesley Waghorn, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant.

Answer Digital is a highly successful digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. It sets us apart from most digital businesses you’ll meet and defines our culture and values. We pride ourselves on having a fair but flexible recruitment process, we want to create a platform where you can show us your best. We will talk to you about Answer Digital, the type of work we do, and an overview of the role. Here, we’d advise asking any “people” questions, anything about our culture, career progression or approach to flexible working.

We can do this stage remote or in person, whichever you’d prefer.