Embedded Software - Team Leader

Matchtech; England; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment specialist in technology is seeking an Embedded Software Team Leader to guide a team of engineers while working on innovative tech projects across various industries. This role requires strong embedded software experience and some leadership exposure. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, technical leadership, and shaping coding standards. This position offers a hybrid working model with a focus on collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in embedded software development in bare metal, RTOS, or embedded Linux.
• Some exposure to leadership roles, like managing small project teams or mentoring.
• Confident in communicating technical ideas to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of 3-5 engineers, providing mentorship and performance reviews.
• Make architecture decisions and contribute code within multidisciplinary teams.
• Help shape team processes, coding standards, and future technology direction.

Skills

Embedded software development

Leadership

Communication

Technical mentorship

Algorithm implementation

Device drivers

Communications protocols

Job description

Embedded Software Team Leader to mentor a high-performing embedded software team while working on innovative, real-world tech across diverse industries.

Key skills required for this role

Embedded Software Engineer

Important

Embedded Software and Leadership

This position offers a roughly 80/20 split between hands-on embedded software development and leadership responsibilities, supporting a small team of 3-5 specialist software engineers. Projects are varied-ranging from short 2-day sprints to full-scale 2-year development programmes-across a wide range of industries.

It's an excellent fit for someone with solid embedded software experience and some exposure toleadership-whether direct orinformal-who's ready to take the next step. A broader understanding of cloud or application-level development is also useful, given the diversity of work.

Location: Commute from Cambridge, Saffron Walden, Newmarket, Braintree, Hitchen, Harlow, St Neots, Bury St Edmunds, Chelmsford (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Type: Permanent | Hands-on Technical + Leadership

Other: No Visa sponsorship available

The Opportunity
This is a hands-on role combining software development with team leadership. You'll lead a small, close-knit sub-team within a larger multidisciplinary software group, contributing to the design and delivery of embedded systems for a range of real-world applications-from radar and sensing technologies to IoT devices and advanced communication systems.

Projects span sectors such as defence, healthcare, and industrial innovation, blending embedded software, electronics, FPGA, cloud, and system-level engineering.

As a Lead Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Line management and mentoring for 3-5 engineers, supporting career development, conducting performance reviews, and assisting with resource planning.
• Technical leadership within multi-disciplinary project teams, including architecture decisions and code contributions.
• Process and practice development across the team, helping shape coding standards, development methodologies, and future technology direction.

What We're Looking For
You'll be a capable and well-rounded embedded software engineer with a natural inclination to guide others. Our ideal candidate brings:

• Strong experience in embedded software development, ideally across environments such as bare metal, RTOS, or embedded Linux.
• Technical depth in areas such as device drivers, DSP, communications protocols, algorithm implementation, or working close to hardware.
• Some leadership exposure-this could be through running small project teams, mentoring, or handling performance reviews.
• Confidence in communicating technical ideas, presenting to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and producing well-reasoned project estimates.
• Ideally, experience in a consultancy or project-based engineering environment, comfortable balancing technical excellence with time and budget constraints.

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