Lead Software Engineer in Manchester

About Made Tech

Our aim at Made Tech is to use human‑centred technology to improve our society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. We are looking for Lead Engineers with a particular penchant for cloud, automation, slick tooling, and empowering software delivery by coaching teams in true DevOps fashion. While we value significant experience with AWS, this role remains a full‑stack and polyglot position.

About the Role

We primarily write and deliver custom software for the public sector—crossing central and local government, health, and beyond. Technical excellence means delivering outcomes, not just features. High‑performing delivery teams are enabled to iterate rapidly with cloud automation and DevOps culture. Document architecture and infrastructure as code with Terraform and OpenAPI. Emphasise containerisation, AWS Lambda, and stateless services. Coaching teams to adopt the mantra: “you build it, you run it.” Technology stack includes Java, Ruby, Python, ES6+ React, C# .NET Core, and more.

Our Senior Engineers embrace sharing knowledge, mentoring, open‑mind architecture discussions, and contributing to the wider learning culture.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Essential Skills

• Written code with tests
• Delivery in an agile environment
• Experience across multiple programming languages
• Experience with databases and APIs
• Experience with at least one cloud platform
• Debugging experience in a range of systems
• Evidence of self‑development and a passion for learning
• Drive to deliver outcomes for users
• Desire to mentor and people‑manage

• Consultancy experience
• Direct customer and user engagement
• Multidisciplinary team collaboration (product, design, tech)
• Showcasing and presentation skills
• Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
• Pair programming (≈50 % of the time)
• Test‑driven development
• CI/CD pipeline maintenance
• Component‑based design techniques (styled‑components, CSS‑in‑JS, BEM, SUIT)
• Infrastructure debugging
• REACT ecosystem with test‑driven approach
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Architectural and design pattern familiarity
• Architectural design records usage

Eligibility (Security Check)

Increasingly, our customers require a security clearance (SC). Eligible candidates must have 5 years of continuous UK residency and 5 years of employment or full‑time education history. If eligibility is not clear at any stage of the interview, we will not progress the application.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible parental leave
• Remote working opportunities (part‑time)

Additional benefits include a flexible benefit platform, smart tech scheme, cycle‑to‑work, health care cash plan, pension plan, and optional social and wellbeing events.

We encourage people from under‑represented groups to apply. If you need support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact talent@madetech.com. We do not respond to CVs sent through external recruitment agencies.