Lead Software Engineer: Scale and Ship High-Impact Apps

Arrows; Preston; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrows is seeking a senior technical leader to drive delivery across scale-ups, SMEs and enterprise clients. You will guide cross-functional engineering teams, own architectural decisions, and ship robust web applications on container platforms.

We value hands-on, Agile-minded leaders who can work across front- or back-end domains, with strong experience in microservices and cloud ecosystems (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS).

Qualifications

• 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, with a stronger lean toward either front or back end.
• Experience building microservices on container-based infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complex web applications.
• Own architecture decisions for scalable microservices on cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with product, design, and client stakeholders to plan and execute delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Full-stack

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Agile

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

GraphQL

TypeScript

React

Job description

Arrows is seeking a senior technical leader to drive delivery across scale-ups, SMEs and enterprise clients. You will guide cross-functional engineering teams, own architectural decisions, and ship robust web applications on container platforms.

We value hands-on, Agile-minded leaders who can work across front- or back-end domains, with strong experience in microservices and cloud ecosystems (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS).