Team Lead - Full Stack

THE ROLE At Debenhams Group, we are on a journey of transformation, revitalising our brand, culture, and connection with colleagues and customers alike. In a fast-changing retail environment, effective and authentic communication is vital to building trust, aligning our teams, and amplifying the impact of our work across internal and external audiences. DESCRIPTION At Debenhams Group, we are on a journey of transformation, revitalising our brand, culture, and connection with colleagues and customers alike. In a fast-changing retail environment, effective and authentic communication is vital to building trust, aligning our teams, and amplifying the impact of our work across internal and external audiences. THE ROLE We’re looking for a Team Lead to join our Software Development team, responsible for leading a team of four developers who build the internal applications used across the Debenhams Group business. You’ll balance hands‑on technical leadership with people management — setting direction, reviewing code, and making architectural calls, while coaching your team and helping them grow. Our applications are built with React and Node.js, deployed to AWS, and follow event‑driven architecture patterns using SNS, SQS and EventBridge. You’ll work closely with the Software Development Manager to plan sprints, prioritise the backlog and manage delivery risk, and you’ll own incident response and root cause analysis for issues within your team’s applications. This role will be based out of our central Manchester office 3 days per week. What You’ll Be Doing Our tech stack consists of: React + Node.js AWS — GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure PostgreSQL, MySQL, DocumentDB, DynamoDB Event-driven architecture using SNS, SQS and EventBridge Git and GitHub Actions What We Look For 5+ Years’ Development Experience: Including at least 3 years in a management or team-leading capacity, mentoring and developing other engineers. Strong React