Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Leader

Burendo; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days Annual Leave (plus bank)

Wellness Allowance

Learning and Development Allowance

Pension

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Sabbatical eligibility

Salary sacrifice benefits

Exciting Burendo socials

Job summary

Burendo is an award-winning consultancy empowering organisations to deliver value through technology. We hire engineers who pair, mentor, and lead across the full SDLC, emphasising pragmatic delivery, clean code, and quality testing.

We encourage collaboration, openness, and a proactive DevOps approach, with strong aspirations to influence architectural decisions and drive lasting outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• A passion for engineering and a desire to keep learning.
• A focus on writing clear, concise code that is easy to maintain.
• An ability to be pragmatic when required and avoid unnecessary “gold-plating”.
• An understanding that quality is everyone’s responsibility and a strong desire to test your own code.
• Comfortable working with others in pairing or mobbing scenarios.
• A good communicator who shares our values of openness and respect.
• A DevOps mentality – meaning that you don’t want to chuck code over the fence, and you are keen to be involved right through to delivering the code to the customer.
• A desire to build up and see others succeed, rather than wanting to be the Hero.
• Confidence to act as a technical authority, influencing decisions across teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical strategy and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute across the tech stack and be involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across teams and programmes of work.
• Mentor, up-skill engineers and drive engineering best practices.
• Balance delivery with long-term architectural decisions and sustainability.

Skills

Engineering passion

Clear, maintainable code

Pragmatic delivery

Code quality and testing

Pairing or mobbing

Communication and openness

DevOps mindset

Technical leadership

Balancing short-term delivery with a長‑

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Git

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLabCI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

AWS

Azure

Job description

Burendo is an award-winning consultancy empowering organisations to deliver value through technology. We hire engineers who pair, mentor, and lead across the full SDLC, emphasising pragmatic delivery, clean code, and quality testing.

We encourage collaboration, openness, and a proactive DevOps approach, with strong aspirations to influence architectural decisions and drive lasting outcomes for clients.