Lead Software Engineer

Arrows; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrows is a technology consultancy that partners with scale ups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations to accelerate business value, speed, and quality of delivery. We look for proven leaders who can steer cross-functional teams, ship web applications in fast-paced environments, and design microservices on container-based infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.

Join a culture that values hands-on engineering, collaboration, and continuous improvement across modern tech stacks

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams across multiple organisations.
• Proven ability to ship web applications in a fast-paced setting.
• Full-stack capability with emphasis on frontend or backend.
• Experience building microservices on container-based infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional technical teams on various engagements.
• Design and deliver scalable web applications and microservices.
• Collaborate with engineers on architecture and scaling.

Skills

Technical leadership

Web app delivery

Full-stack

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Agile/Lean

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About Us

We're a technology consultancy that partners with scale ups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations to accelerate business value, speed, and quality of delivery.

Our consultants bring hands on experience from scaling hypergrowth companies in sectors like food delivery and e-commerce. We work in a few different ways: embedding senior engineers to lift capability and culture from within, standing up dedicated teams to move fast on complex problems, or advising on architecture, hiring, and scaling strategy.

Two things anchor how we work:

• Engineering exists to deliver value, not for its own sake.
• Great people build great culture, and great culture builds great products.

Who We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading technical teams, ideally cross functional teams across more than one organisation
• Confidence shipping and maintaining web applications in a fast-paced, iterative setting
• Full-stack comfort, even with a stronger lean toward either front or back end
• Experience building microservices on container based infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong grounding in Agile/Lean ways of working

The Work

We work across a range of well-known tech organisations and brands, with ongoing engagements spanning multiple sectors — plus new opportunities on the horizon that would let the right person grow alongside some genuinely excellent engineers.

A flavour of the stack you might use:

• Languages/runtimes: .NET Core, Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Apollo
• Cloud (AWS): Lambda, ECS, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis