Lead Software Engineer

Arrows; South Shields; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrows is a technology consultancy partnering with scale-ups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations to accelerate business value, speed, and quality of delivery. We embed senior engineers, stand up dedicated teams, or advise on architecture, hiring, and scaling strategy.

The right candidate will lead cross-functional teams, ship web applications in a fast-paced environment, and work across stacks including .NET Core, Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams, ideally cross-functional across more than one organisation.
• Confidence shipping and maintaining web applications in a fast-paced, iterative setting.
• Full-stack comfort, 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical engagements for well-known tech organisations and brands across multiple sectors.
• Collaborate with clients to lift capability and culture from within teams.
• Architect and implement scalable web applications and microservices.
• Advise on architecture, hiring, and scaling strategy.

Skills

team leadership

full-stack

cloud platforms

Agile/Lean

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

TypeScript

React

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