Lead Software Engineer – Node.js / TypeScript | AWS & CDK

Kainos; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Consultant) to guide teams and deliver high-quality solutions that delight customers and impact users worldwide. You will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with customers in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive architecture, testing, and delivery, empower staff development, and interact with stakeholders to shape product outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Node/JS frameworks, TypeScript, Terraform, AWS CDK.
• Expertise in designing, building, testing and maintaining modern software applications.
• Technical leadership of teams building and testing modern, scalable, secure, performant applications in line with software development principles, practices and patterns e.g. XP, TDD.
• Experience of technical ownership for a product/software project, including architecture, estimation, product planning and user story/requirement creation.
• Expertise in software design and development across all layers of an application.
• We are passionate about developing people - a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider community.
• Experience with the latest Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams and develop high-quality software solutions that delight customers.
• Provide direction and leadership for the team and mentor staff.
• Interact with customers and share knowledge to improve outcomes.
• Coach and develop junior members of the team and wider community.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring juniors

Software architecture

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

Node.js

Typescript

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Kainos in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Consultant) to guide teams and deliver high-quality solutions that delight customers and impact users worldwide. You will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with customers in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive architecture, testing, and delivery, empower staff development, and interact with stakeholders to shape product outcomes.