Staff Software Engineer

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

Job summary

Lead Forensics is hiring a staff-level full stack Software Engineer to lead design, architecture and implementation of our customer-facing SaaS products. You will work on NodeJS microservices, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and SingleStore, deploying daily to AWS in a DevSecOps-enabled environment.

TypeScript fluency (5+ years) is required. You will collaborate with product teams, break work into Epics/Stories, and guide solutions from requirements to production, ensuring high quality and secure

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with TypeScript in production
• Experience writing clean code and applying SOLID principles
• Experience in a mature CI/CD environment and DevSecOps practices
• Ability to lead design discussions and create POCs when needed
• Experience building large scale SaaS platforms is a plus
• Strong collaboration with product teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design solution scope and system architecture with stakeholders
• Prototype uncertain areas and build POCs as required
• Collaborate with product teams to break work into Epics and Stories
• Convert user stories into production-ready code as a lead developer
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and operability
• Support production systems and resolve issues
• Make design, architecture, and implementation decisions for the product

Skills

Full stack development

Collaboration

Problem solving

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

NodeJS

Vue

Redis

SQL Server

SingleStore

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.