Lead Software Engineer - Salesforce
Please note this role is Hybrid with office visits 1-2 times per week in Liverpool
Main Purpose of Role
The Lead Engineer is accountable for the technical execution and delivery of the digital platform strategy. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, ensuring resilient and scalable solutions, while mentoring and upskilling the engineering team. This role ensures that Salesforce adoption is technically sound and successful, while maintaining business-critical legacy systems.
Principal Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Design, develop, and oversee scalable and secure solutions that support growth. Lead architectural decisions, balancing new Salesforce-based solutions with ongoing support of legacy systems.
- Execution & Follow-through: Ensure technical actions, commitments, and decisions are documented, tracked, and completed to a high standard.
- Team Development: Actively mentor engineers, embedding structured upskilling and cross-skilling. Support the team's transition to Salesforce skills while ensuring continuity of legacy system knowledge.
- Collaboration with Product Owner: Translate product strategy and detailed plans into technical outcomes. Ensure technical feasibility, risk identification, and solution alignment with roadmap priorities.
- Standards & Practices: Maintain engineering discipline, ensuring delivery practices, lifecycle processes, and compliance with PCI-DSS, Cyber essentails+ and other standards.
- Quality & Resilience: Ensure systems are performant, reliable, and meet functional and non-functional requirements. Promote test-driven development and engineering best practice.
- Supplier/Partner Engagement: Review and assure the quality of technical outputs from third parties, ensuring compliance with internal standards.
What we would like from you
- Strong background in software engineering, ideally with Java, React/React Native, Salesforce, and API integration experience.
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams in financial services or similar regulated environments.
- Expertise across the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, and DevOps practices.
- Experience building and designing solutions for resilience, scalability, and security.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow technical teams, fostering a culture of learning and accountability.
Our benefits if you decide to join us:
- 25 days' holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- Company pension scheme
- UK health care cover
- Staff Everyday Benefits card offering discounts with multiple retailers (10%)
- Corporate travel scheme with Merseyrail, Northern rail, Arriva & Transport for Wales
- Fabulous kitchen space which offers free tea and coffee
- Faith room open to all denominations along with dedicated kitchen space for Halal and Kosher food preparation
- Family friendly leave
- Community volunteering policy which allows you 2 days per year to support the community with charitable events
As a disability-confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.