Senior Lead Developer in Liverpool

🚀 We’re Hiring: Lead Developer – YDS Group (Yorkshire Dental Suite & Smile White)

📍 Leeds, UK (Office-Based)

💷 £70k DOE

🕒 Full-time

YDS Group, home to Yorkshire Dental Suite and Smile White is expanding fast, and we’re looking for a visionary Lead Developer to help shape the future of dental technology, automation, and AI-powered patient experience.

If you’re excited by innovation, love solving complex problems, and want to build products that directly impact thousands of patients- this is your role.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

Leading the development of scalable backend systems and modern frontend applications

Setting engineering standards, architecture, and best practices across teams

Collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, QA, and data

Mentoring and growing a strong team of engineers

Ensuring performance, security, and maintainability across platforms

Driving CI/CD, automated testing, and modern workflows

Making strategic technical decisions and evaluating new tools/technologies

🎯 What We’re Looking For

Strong backend skills: Python, FastAPI

Frontend expertise: Next.js, React, TypeScript

Solid understanding of MySQL/Postgres, REST/GraphQL APIs, data pipelines

Leadership or senior engineering experience (mentoring, code review, ownership)

Cloud experience (AWS preferred) and building scalable systems

Excellent communication and architectural decision-making skills

⭐ Bonus Points

QA/testing frameworks

BI, analytics, AI/ML exposure

🚨 If you’re ready to:

Build industry-leading tech, drive AI innovation, mentor engineers, and influence the direction of a rapidly growing healthcare group…

📩 Apply now or message us for more details.

Let’s build the future of dental care together. 🦷✨