Salary: £30,000 - 55,000 per year
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong hands‑on development background
- Proven experience in technical leadership or senior development roles
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments
- Exposure to distributed delivery models, including onshore and offshore teams
- 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
- 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 and microservices architecture
- Experience with 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
Responsibilities:
- 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, ensuring 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 ensure the design and delivery of high‑quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. Our role combines hands‑on development expertise with leadership responsibilities, translating business requirements into robust technical solutions while driving engineering excellence, delivery consistency, and collaboration across onshore and offshore teams. We offer a collaborative working environment, empower technology professionals to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects, and provide access to Expleo Academy training courses and competitive company benefits. We are committed to inclusion, accessibility, reasonable adjustments, and equal opportunities for all.
last updated 26 week of 2026
