Lead Software Engineer

SF Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A high growth B2C solution scale up in Birmingham is seeking a Lead Software Engineer. The role involves contributing to greenfield innovation and providing hands-on engineering leadership. Candidates should have strong full stack JavaScript skills, particularly in Node.js and experience with cloud provisioning tools like Terraform and Azure. This position offers excellent autonomy, hybrid working, and personal development opportunities in an innovative culture.

Benefits

Generous starting salary

Bonus scheme

Long term hybrid working

Flexible working hours

Excellent progression opportunities

Personal development scheme

25 days holiday

Private pension

Fast paced, autonomous culture

Regular remuneration reviews

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud-based products, ideally in a scale-up environment.
• Delivery-focused, mission-driven personality.
• Interest in AI/automation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to greenfield innovation and design/implement new solutions on the existing platform.
• Provide hands-on engineering and DevOps leadership.
• Share knowledge and drive autonomous, innovative changes across the engineering team.

Skills

Full stack JavaScript engineering

Cloud infrastructure provisioning

Strong general Azure skills

Tools

Node.js

Next.js

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

Lead Software Engineer with a solid Node.js, Next.js, Azure and Terraform experience ideally gained in a product led, scale up environment is sought by a high growth B2C solution scale up based in Birmingham city centre.

Working at the forefront of automation technology this Lead Software Engineer will play a key role in greenfield innovation utilising the latest technology to design and implement new solutions with the existing platform.

This role would suit either a senior Engineer looking to take a step up to a lead position or an existing lead Engineer with hands on capabilities across engineering and DevOps looking for more autonomy to drive innovation and change.

In return this Lead Software Engineer can expect excellent autonomy and personal growth in this knowledge share driven, innovation led environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to greenfield innovation and design/implement new solutions on the existing platform.
• Provide hands-on engineering and DevOps leadership in a product-led scale-up environment.
• Share knowledge and drive autonomous, innovative changes across the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Strong full stack JavaScript engineering skills – Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, etc.
• Cloud infrastructure provisioning – Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.
• Strong general Azure skills.
• Experience building cloud-based products, ideally in a scale-up environment.
• A delivery-focused, mission-driven personality.
• An interest in AI/automation.

Benefits

• Generous starting salary
• Bonus scheme
• Long term hybrid working (3 days a week on-site in Birmingham city centre)
• Flexible working hours
• Excellent progression opportunities
• Personal development scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Private pension
• Fast paced, autonomous culture with extensive growth potential
• Regular remuneration reviews

Lead Software Engineer near Birmingham – role in Birmingham (hybrid) with skills in Node.js, Terraform, Ansible, AI, Microservices, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Next.js.