Senior Software Engineer Team Lead
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead | Lead Software Engineer | Team Lead
We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join a well established SaaS company, supporting a team of engineers while helping shape technical direction, architecture and delivery.
This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, though the focus leans more toward people leadership. It’s well suited to someone who enjoys mentoring, developing engineers and creating an environment where teams can do their best work, while still remaining technically involved when needed.
You’ll be leading from the front, setting clear expectations and taking pride in helping engineers grow in both capability and confidence.
Experience required:
- Experience leading software engineers as a Team Lead, or acting as a senior engineer with leadership responsibilities
- Background working as a Senior, Lead, Principal or Team Lead engineer
- Strong experience mentoring and coaching engineers at different stages of their career
- Comfortable setting expectations, managing performance and fostering a positive engineering culture
- Experience contributing to architectural discussions and technical design decisions
- Ability to introduce and improve engineering standards, practices and delivery metrics
- Confident remaining hands-on and contributing to code when required
Tech environment:
- Python and/or Django
- Azure or AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Git
- API and integration work
The role:
- Leading and supporting engineers in their day-to-day work
- Mentoring, coaching and developing team members
- Setting and maintaining technical and behavioural standards
- Contributing to architecture and system design discussions
- Improving processes and ways of working across the team
- Staying close enough to the code to support delivery and guide technical direction
This is a genuine team leadership role for someone who cares about people, strong engineering practices and building high quality systems. If you’re already leading a team, or you’re a senior/principal engineer with broader responsibilities who’s ready to step into a leadership position, it would be great to speak.