Lead Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

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Full Stack Lead Engineer

We're looking for an Lead Engineer to join our Application Platform Team, who combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, capable of guiding teams delivering high‐quality, production‐ready solutions. You'll bring hands‐on experience across modern engineering stacks and be comfortable working closely with platform, product, and data teams to deliver scalable systems. Alongside this, you'll play a key role in developing and supporting engineers at different levels, fostering a collaborative, high‐performing environment, and ensuring best practices around code quality, reliability, and delivery are consistently upheld.

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience with .NET, Python, React/JavaScript, and Terraform (bonus: exposure to Go/Rust)

Comfortable with cloud‐native environments (Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps) and working alongside platform teamsProven experience shipping production code, ideally in cloud environmentsSolid CI/CD knowledge (pipelines, testing, deployment) with tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or OctopusPrioritises code quality, testing, and standards as a givenFamiliar with Kubernetes patterns, ArgoCD, secrets management, and multi‐cloud (GCP/Azure)Good understanding xxuwjjq of observability (e.g. New Relic) and what "good" looks like in productionAble to set direction, not just follow – comfortable working cross‐functionallyExperience managing engineers and supporting team growthWorks effectively in Agile teams and keeps processes pragmaticStrong communicator, able to engage both technical and non‐technical stakeholdersEncourages knowledge sharing through practical approaches (pairing, documentation, etc.)