Senior Software Development Lead

Provide technical leadership across development teams to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. The role combines hands-on development expertise with leadership responsibilities, translating business requirements into robust technical solutions while driving engineering excellence, delivery consistency, and collaboration across onshore and offshore teams.

• Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery
  • Lead the design and development of key features, components, and services across the application stack
  • Provide hands-on guidance in building scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript
  • Own critical technical decisions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term scalability goals
  • Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges and design issues
• Solution Design & Requirement Translation
  • Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs and implementation plans
  • Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders to refine requirements and define solution approaches
  • Produce and review technical design documentation, API specifications, and architectural artefacts
• Engineering Excellence & Governance
  • Define and enforce coding standards, development best practices, and quality benchmarks
  • Conduct code reviews to ensure maintainability, performance, and security compliance
  • Ensure adherence to DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and secure coding
  • Monitor and improve non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience
• Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination
  • Guide and mentor offshore and distributed development teams, ensuring alignment to delivery standards
  • Allocate tasks, oversee progress, and provide regular technical direction to team members
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer, technical upskilling, and team capability development
  • Ensure effective coordination between onshore and offshore teams, managing dependencies and delivery risks
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work closely with architects, QA teams, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders
  • Participate in and contribute to design reviews, sprint planning, and governance forums
  • Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Delivery & Agile Execution
  • Support Agile delivery processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives
  • Ensure timely and predictable delivery of features aligned with sprint and programme objectives
  • Identify risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Core Technologies
  • Front-end: React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
  • Back-end: Node.js (Express.js/NestJS)
  • API Development: RESTful services, microservices architecture
  • Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Architecture & Design
  • Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (microservices, layered architecture, event-driven systems)
  • Experience with scalable and cloud-native solution design
  • Knowledge of system integration patterns and API design principles
• DevOps & Cloud
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
  • Exposure to containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Engineering Practices
  • Strong grounding in clean code principles and design patterns (SOLID, DRY)
  • Experience with test automation, code quality tools, and static analysis
  • Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements

• Overall experience with strong hands-on development background
• Proven experience in technical leadership or senior development roles
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments
• Exposure to distributed delivery models (onshore/offshore teams)
• Non-Functional Expectations
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Ability to balance technical depth with delivery and business priorities
  • Proactive problem-solving and decision-making mindset
  • High level of accountability and ownership
  • Expected Outcomes & Success Measures
• Solution Quality & Delivery
  • Delivery of high-quality, scalable, and production-ready solutions aligned with business requirements
  • Strong alignment between functional requirements and technical implementation
  • Reduction in defects and improved system stability
• Team Performance & Coordination
  • Efficient coordination between onshore and offshore teams, resulting in predictable delivery outcomes
  • Improved team productivity, technical capability, and adherence to standards
• Engineering Excellence
  • Consistent enforcement of coding standards, architecture principles, and best practices
  • Measurable improvements in code quality, test coverage, and deployment reliability
• Stakeholder Value
  • Positive stakeholder feedback on solution quality, responsiveness, and collaboration
  • Contribution to successful delivery of programme and release milestones

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges 
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects 
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses 
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.