Senior Software Development Lead

Provide technical leadership across development teams to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. The 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.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery
  • 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.
• Solution Design & Requirement Translation
  • 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.
• Engineering Excellence & Governance
  • 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.
• Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination
  • 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.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • 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.
• Delivery & Agile Execution
  • 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Essential skills

• Core Technologies
  • Front-end: React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript.
  • Back-end: Node.js (Express.js/NestJS).
  • API Development: RESTful services, microservices architecture.
  • Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB).
• Architecture & Design
  • Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (microservices, layered architecture, event-driven systems).
  • Experience with scalable and cloud-native solution design.
  • Knowledge of system integration patterns and API design principles.
• DevOps & Cloud
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).
  • Exposure to containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Engineering Practices
  • Strong grounding in clean code principles and design patterns (SOLID, DRY).
  • Experience with test automation, code quality tools, and static analysis.
  • Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements.

Experience

• Overall experience with 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 (onshore/offshore teams).

Non-Functional Expectations

• 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.

Expected Outcomes & Success Measures

• Solution Quality & Delivery
  • Delivery of high-quality, scalable, and production-ready solutions aligned with business requirements.
  • Strong alignment between functional requirements and technical implementation.
  • Reduction in defects and improved system stability.
• Team Performance & Coordination
  • Efficient coordination between onshore and offshore teams, resulting in predictable delivery outcomes.
  • Improved team productivity, technical capability, and adherence to standards.
• Engineering Excellence
  • Consistent enforcement of coding standards, architecture principles, and best practices.
  • Measurable improvements in code quality, test coverage, and deployment reliability.
• Stakeholder Value
  • Positive stakeholder feedback on solution quality, responsiveness, and collaboration.
  • Contribution to successful delivery of programme and release milestones.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
• Expleo Academy – enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits.
• Always working as one team – our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies.
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.