Senior Lead Software Engineer in Manchester

hackajob is collaborating with Made Tech to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.

Are you a Software Engineer that wants to actually see the real-world impact from what you help to create? We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually used the services we work on. At Made Tech, we're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage all people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

We are looking for Lead Engineers with a particular penchant and love for cloud, automation, slick tooling, and empowering software delivery by coaching teams in true DevOps fashion. While we are looking for those with significant experience working with AWS, this role remains a full stack and polyglot role as with all of our Software Engineering roles.

Our Lead Software Engineers are Tech Leads, Architects, Thought Leaders, Full Stack Engineers, and Consultants. They are our most senior technologist within a customer account representing Made Tech and act as a hands-on CTO across one or more software delivery teams driving organisational change and outcomes for users. They combine technical excellence, drive to deliver, and coaching, to achieve outcomes for our customers and their users, and to establish strong engineering cultures within our customers' organisations.

We primarily write and deliver custom software for the public sector. We work across central and local government, as well as in health, and our past lies in the technology startup world. High performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to iteratively and rapidly deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this we combine our extensive cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture.

Containerisation is a big part of empowering our teams to develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using AWS Lambda and avoiding the complexity of stateful services altogether. For us, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOps experience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You won't be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other people's work into production.

Our teams have used Java, Ruby, Python, ES6 with React, C# with .NET Core. We grow a team of language agnostic engineers, which you might already consider yourself to be, who are versed in a mix of paradigms such as object oriented, functional, declarative, event-based and aspect-oriented. To create this environment our Senior Engineers need to embrace sharing their knowledge and skills with others, and they need to keep an open mind - we'd love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members.

If you don't have the following skills, you will have access to a learning budget, experienced team members and a wider learning and mentoring culture that can help you develop the following:

• Delivery in an agile environment
• Worked across a variety of programming languages
• Worked with databases
• Worked with APIs
• Worked with at least one Cloud platform
• Debugging experience in a range of systems
• Evidence of self-development - we value keen learners
• Drive to deliver outcomes for users
• Desire to mentor others

Nice to Haves:

• Working directly with customers and users
• Working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles
• Showcasing and presentation skills
• Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
• Pair programming - we pair around 50% of the time
• Writing code with test-driven development
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Component-based design techniques such as using pattern libraries, styled-components, CSS-in-JS, BEM, and/or SUIT CSS
• Debugging infrastructure
• The REACT ecosystem including a test-driven approach
• Infrastructure as code technology like Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Familiarity with architectural and design patterns
• Use of architectural design records

Please note, an increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year's employment history (or back to full-time education).

Get in touch with our talent team if you'd like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. When you apply, we'll put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. We're committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce.

You can get a sense of what it's like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you'd like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.

We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan.

30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays.

Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work.

Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options.

Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff.

Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.