Staff Software Engineer

Lead Forensics; Portsmouth, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lead Forensics is a UK-based SAAS company seeking a Staff level full stack Software Engineer to join our growing teams building our customer facing products.

You’ll lead work from requirements through design to implementation, using a modern stack (NodeJS microservices, Vue, Redis, SQL Server, SingleStore) and deploy daily to AWS in a DevSecOps environment to meet customer needs. You’ll mentor peers, shape architecture and ensure quality, scalability and security across production systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive TypeScript experience (5+ years) in production-grade systems.
• Strong knowledge of NodeJS, Vue, and scalable SaaS architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to design, architect, and lead software in an AI-enabled environment.

Responsibilities

• Working with stakeholders on initial solution design, scoping and system design.
• Spiking areas of uncertainty in designs and building POCs as required.
• Work with Product Teams to break down work into Epics and Stories.
• Turning user stories into production code as a lead developer and embedded architect.
• Ensuring the quality, maintainability and operability of code.
• Supporting the product in production and resolving issues.
• Responsible for design, architecture and implementation decisions.

Skills

NodeJS

Vue

Redis

SQL Server

SingleStore

TypeScript

CI/CD

DevSecOps

SOLID principles

Design patterns

Full stack

Architectural leadership

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

POC frameworks

AWS

Job description

UK Remote First / Hybrid depending up location

: Portsmouth / Manchester (2027)

Summary:

Lead Forensics is a leading UK based SAAS company with products in the B2B sales and marketing space. We’re seeking a Staff level full stack Software Engineer / Software Developer to join our expanding teams that build our customer facing products.

You’ll be technically leading work; from requirements capture and initial design, through to full implementation, iterating quickly on our modern tech stack (NodeJS microservices, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and SingleStore) and deploying code daily to production (in AWS) following the DevSecOps methodology as we respond rapidly to customer requirements.

Current and production grade TypeScript fluency (approx. 5+years experience) is necessary for this particular position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with stakeholders on initial solution design, scoping and system design.
• Spiking areas of uncertainty in designs and building POCs as required.
• Work with our Product Teams to help break down work into deliverable Epics and Stories.
• Turning user stories into code running in production as a high performing individual contributor lead developer and embedded architect in an Agentic AI environment.
• Ensuring the quality, maintainability and operability of code.
• Supporting the product that the team has built as it runs in production and resolving issues.
• Responsible for the design, architecture and implementation decisions for the product.

What you will bring:

• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including competencies to work directly with customers.
• Experience developing with clean code, SOLID principals and design patterns.
• Experience across all areas of full stack development, ideally developing large scale SaaS platforms.
• Experience of working in a mature CI/CD environment, continuously deploying stories every day, following the DevSecOps methodology.
• A strong general aptitude for programming and problem solving.You’ll need to pick up new tools and techniques quickly and use them to solve problems.

Our ideal candidate will also be able to show:

• A forward-thinking approach to accelerating production quality software development using AI (professional or personal).
• Experience with automated testing and quality assurance.
• An understanding of how to build systems that perform well at scale.
• Enthusiasm for building secure systems and implementing security best practices.
• Enthusiasm for driving high standards in software development and working with like-minded people towards achieving ever higher levels of efficiency and performance.
• A technical/computer science degree or equivalent professional experience.