Lead Software Engineer - Hybrid, High-Impact Tech Leadership

Catering; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Enhanced annual leave

Employee wellbeing programme

Salary sacrifice benefits

Ongoing professional development

Regular social events

Job summary

CPS Group is supporting an established technology-driven organisation in Cardiff, seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to guide multiple engineering teams in a hybrid Cardiff-based role.

You will mentor engineers, shape engineering practices and influence architecture while collaborating closely with Product and senior stakeholders to deliver high-quality software on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Team Lead, Senior Engineer or Engineering Lead.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience.
• Experience delivering software within Agile environments.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor engineers.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• A passion for building quality software and improving engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across software engineering teams.
• Guide software design, architecture and engineering best practice.
• Support delivery planning, prioritisation and risk management.
• Mentor engineers through feedback, coaching and development.
• Collaborate with Product and stakeholders to deliver business objectives.
• Drive improvements across engineering processes, quality and delivery.
• Support recruitment and help build high-performing teams.
• Encourage modern development practices, automation and AI tooling.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Team leadership

Agile delivery

Tools

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

CPS Group is supporting an established technology-driven organisation in Cardiff, seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead to guide multiple engineering teams in a hybrid Cardiff-based role.

You will mentor engineers, shape engineering practices and influence architecture while collaborating closely with Product and senior stakeholders to deliver high-quality software on time and within budget.