Lead Software Engineer Jobs

Made Tech

Location:
United Kingdom, Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

70000.00 - 90000.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

Lead Software Engineer role at Made Tech, focusing on using human-centred technology to improve society and public services. The role involves being a Tech Lead, Architect, Thought Leader, Full Stack Engineer, and Consultant, representing Made Tech as the most senior technologist within a customer account. The work includes delivering custom software for the public sector across central and local government and health, with an emphasis on outcome-based delivery, DevOps culture, cloud automation, and empowering teams.

Job Responsibility:

Act as a hands-on CTO across one or more software delivery teams
Drive organisational change and outcomes for users
Combine technical excellence, drive to deliver, and coaching
Establish strong engineering cultures within customers' organisations
Work on a variety of different problems from monoliths to microservices
Upskill colleagues and customers
Empower software delivery by coaching teams in true DevOps fashion
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Document architecture and infrastructure as code
Use technologies such as Terraform and OpenAPI
Work with containerisation, AWS Lambda, and stateful services
Coach and help teams use the platforms you build

Requirements:

Written code with tests
Delivery in an agile environment
Worked across a variety of programming languages
Worked with databases
Worked with APIs
Worked with at least one Cloud platform
Debugging experience in a range of systems
Evidence of self-development
Drive to deliver outcomes for users
Desire to mentor others
Eligibility for SC (security check) clearance (requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 years' employment history)

Nice to have:

Consultancy experience
Working directly with customers and users
Working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles
Showcasing and presentation skills
Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
Pair programming
Writing code with test-driven development
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Component-based design techniques such as using pattern libraries, styled-components, CSS-in-JS, BEM, and/or SUIT CSS
Debugging infrastructure
The REACT ecosystem including a test-driven approach
Infrastructure as code technology like Terraform and Cloud Formation
Familiarity with architectural and design patterns
Use of architectural design records

What we offer:

30 days Holiday plus bank holidays
Flexible Working Hours
Flexible Parental Leave
Remote Working (part time)
Paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice
Flexible benefit platform including Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme
Individual benefits allowance for Health care cash plan or Pension plan
Optional social and wellbeing calendar of events
Learning budget
Experienced team members
Learning and mentoring culture

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 10, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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