Lead Software Engineer

Arrows; Watford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrows is a technology consultancy seeking experienced software leaders to join cross-functional teams. You will ship scalable web applications, lead delivery, and help shape architecture across multiple client engagements.

You will work with stacks like .NET Core, Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin on Kubernetes and cloud platforms, collaborating closely with engineers to accelerate value and quality. This is a hands-on leadership role with mentoring opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical teams, ideally cross-functional across more than one organisation.
• Confident shipping and maintaining web applications in a fast-paced, iterative setting.
• Full-stack comfort, with a lean toward 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).

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional tech teams across multiple client engagements.
• Deliver scalable web applications and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and help scale delivery practices across projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

Web development

Full-stack

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Agile/Lean

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

AWS

Azure

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