Lead Software Engineer

We are building a fast-evolving business application. You will be the technical and product reference for the team: translating business needs into a roadmap, safeguarding the technical quality of the solution (architecture, security, performance, testing), and ensuring reliability in production. You act as a key interface between the development team, infrastructure, and end users.

Product & Roadmap (Product Owner) Gather needs from management and users, prioritise them, and build and maintain the product roadmap. Write and prioritise the backlog; facilitate scoping and refinement rituals. Engineering & Architecture Design and evolve the software architecture with security, performance, and scalability by design.

Establish and uphold DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, and observability. Drive cloud hosting choices, prioritising a PaaS model. Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g.

GitHub Copilot, AI code assistants) to improve the team’s productivity and code quality, while keeping the team in control of design and review. Set and enforce development standards; mentor the junior developer through code reviews and pairing. Testing & Quality — Core Responsibility Define and own the test strategy across the stack: unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-regression tests.

Embed automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline as a quality gate — no release without green tests. Champion test-driven habits and meaningful coverage, focusing on critical paths and business logic. Intr