Lead Embedded Software Engineer (SDR)

Codan Limited; Whiteley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DTC, a Codan Company, is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of software engineers delivering SDR software. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering expertise, delivery ownership, mentoring, and collaboration with product, operations, and business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes agile practices, strong technical direction, and ensuring quality, security, and scalability in challenging defence and security systems across Europe.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering within embedded environments.
• Experience leading technical delivery in a software team.
• Proficiency in modern software practices: design, testing, CI/CD, source control, code reviews, secure development.
• Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven mentoring skills and ability to build inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Understanding of reliability, observability, incident response, performance, and supportability.
• Experience with C, C++, VHDL, MATLAB, Python, GitHub and GitLab.
• Full SDLC experience from requirements to final test.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering growth.
• Own delivery of software features from planning to release.
• Provide technical direction including design decisions and architecture alignment.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, DevOps and stakeholders.
• Break down work into clear tasks with estimates and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute hands-on in design, coding, testing, and debugging as needed.
• Review code and designs for quality, security, and scalability.
• Identify risks, blockers, dependencies and reduce technical debt.
• Promote agile practices and transparent progress reporting.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and engineering standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

CI/CD

Embedded

C

C++

GitHub

GitLab

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

DTC, a Codan Company, is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of software engineers delivering SDR software. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering expertise, delivery ownership, mentoring, and collaboration with product, operations, and business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes agile practices, strong technical direction, and ensuring quality, security, and scalability in challenging defence and security systems across Europe.