Description:
Full Stack Software Lead - National Security
Join our growing team and help strengthen the UK's safety and resilience.
We're a leading technology and engineering company supporting customers across National Security, Defence and Intelligence, delivering systems that operate in the most demanding and sensitive environments.
As a Full Stack Software Lead, you'll deliver mission critical solutions for National Security customers - building products that protect people, platforms, missions and information against evolving threats.
You'll help customers use data to improve mission outcomes, lead teams hands-on, and mentor others while working at the forefront of innovation.
What you'll be doing:
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You'll lead a team delivering valuable increments across back-end technologies.
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Partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape the roadmap.
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Turn user needs into epics/stories and define effective ways of working.
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Build secure, maintainable software using test-driven practices.
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Select suitable patterns across established and emerging technologies.
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Convert designs into working implementations and document to required standards.
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Develop and maintain APIs, UI components and data pipelines within existing data infrastructure.
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Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies (stand-ups, refinement, planning, demos).
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Keep the team aligned on upcoming features, impacts, and user needs.
What you'll bring (or Required Skills / Qualifications):
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Back-end: Java (Spring Boot) and/or Go.
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Front-end: React or Vue.js.
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Testing: JUnit/Jest/Cypress (or equivalent).
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Tooling: GitLab/Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI/Argo CD/Jenkins, Jira/Confluence.
