Lead Software Engineer

Lead Engineer | Hybrid | Up to £120,000 + Equity & Benefits

We're partnering with a fast-growing SaaS business that is transforming how organisations identify, engage, and convert high-value opportunities through real-time data and automation. Following continued growth and investment, they're now looking to hire a Lead Engineer to help drive the next stage of product and platform development.

This is a hands-on leadership role within a high-performing engineering team, ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while influencing architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction.

The Role

As Lead Full-Stack Engineer, you'll combine strong technical expertise with leadership and architectural ownership. You'll play a key role in delivering new product capabilities, improving platform performance, and helping shape the long-term technical vision of the business.

This is primarily a hands-on engineering role, with the majority of your time spent building, shipping, and improving software while supporting the wider engineering team.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide architectural guidance across frontend, backend, database, and search infrastructure
• Drive engineering best practices around scalability, maintainability, security, and performance
• Help define and evolve engineering standards across the organisation
• Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and query performance
• Own delivery of complex features from discovery through deployment and monitoring
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and drive continuous platform improvements
• Support and mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and pairing sessions

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience building and scaling SaaS products
• Strong experience leading architecture and system design initiatives
• Excellent full-stack development capability within modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Right to work in the UK (sponsorship is not available)

Tech Stack: Javascript (React), Typescript (Node), Database

Why Apply?

• Competitive salary- Up to £120,000
• Equity
• Hybrid working model
• Private healthcare covering physical, dental, and mental wellbeing
• £500 annual learning and development budget
• Home office equipment provided
• Pension scheme

If you're an experienced engineer who enjoys combining hands-on development with technical leadership and wants to play a key role in scaling a high-growth SaaS platform, we'd love to share more.