Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong hands-on development background with overall experience in software development
- Proven experience in technical leadership or senior development roles
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments
- Exposure to distributed delivery models with onshore and offshore teams
- Front-end experience with React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6), and TypeScript
- Back-end experience with Node.js, including Express.js or NestJS
- Experience with RESTful services, microservices architecture, SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, including microservices, layered architecture, and event-driven systems
- Experience with scalable and cloud-native solution design
- Knowledge of system integration patterns and API design principles
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Exposure to containerisation with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Strong grounding in clean code principles and design patterns such as SOLID and DRY
- Experience with test automation, code quality tools, and static analysis
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to balance technical depth with delivery and business priorities
- Proactive problem-solving and decision-making mindset
- High level of accountability and ownership
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across development teams to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions
- Lead the design and development of key features, components, and services across the application stack
- Provide hands‑on guidance in building scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript
- Own critical technical decisions and ensure alignment with architectural standards and long-term scalability goals
- Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges and design issues
- Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs and implementation plans
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders to refine requirements and define solution approaches
- Produce and review technical design documentation, API specifications, and architectural artefacts
- Define and enforce coding standards, development best practices, and quality benchmarks
- Conduct code reviews to ensure maintainability, performance, and security compliance
- Ensure adherence to DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and secure coding
- Monitor and improve non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience
- Guide and mentor offshore and distributed development teams, ensuring alignment to delivery standards
- Allocate tasks, oversee progress, and provide regular technical direction to team members
- Facilitate knowledge transfer, technical upskilling, and team capability development
- Ensure effective coordination between onshore and offshore teams, managing dependencies and delivery risks
- Work closely with architects, QA teams, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders
- Participate in and contribute to design reviews, sprint planning, and governance forums
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Support Agile delivery processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives
- Ensure timely and predictable delivery of features aligned with sprint and programme objectives
- Identify risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies
Technologies
- API
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- DevOps
- Docker
- ES6
- GCP
- GitHub
- HTML5
- Support
- JavaScript
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- NestJS
- NoSQL
- PostgreSQL
- React
- SQL
- Security
- TypeScript
- microservices
- NodeJS
- ExpressJS
- Java
- Fullstack
More
We provide technical leadership across development teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. This role combines hands‑on development with leadership, engineering governance, and collaboration across onshore and offshore teams. We offer a collaborative working environment where we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and peers through good times and challenges, and we empower passionate technology professionals to expand their skills through inspiring projects and Expleo Academy training. We also offer competitive company benefits and are committed to inclusive, accessible recruitment and equal opportunities for all.
