1 to 25 of 32 Permanent Lead Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Lead Software Engineer – Python, React & AI

Hiring Organisation
Intelligent Talent Solutions Ltd
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
Lead Software Engineer – Python, React & AI London | Hybrid Working | £80,000–£110,000 + Bonus + Benefits | Permanent Intelligent Talent is recruiting experienced Lead Software Engineers (Tech Leads/Technical Lead) for an established international professional services organisation investing in its internal software … This isn't a role focused on maintaining legacy applications or managing developers from a distance. It's about building brand new products and software, making technical decisions and taking responsibility for getting products into production. You'll spend around 70–80% of your time hands-on, working with ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
operational excellence. Foster a vibrant and supportive workplace that embraces continuous learning, growth and collaboration, empowering everyone to succeed. About the Role As a Lead Software Engineer (known internally as a Lead Engineer ), you will play a key role in shaping and operating the digital … partnership with the Product Manager and Delivery Manager within a multidisciplinary product team. You will also report to and align with the Group Engineering Lead on engineering standards, capability and technical direction. The Lead Software Engineer is the technical co-owner of one or more digital ...

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien Resourcing Limited
Location
South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Salary
Negotiable
Lead/Senior Software Engineer/DV Clearable/5 Days Onsite Location: London We're seeking experienced Lead and Senior Software Engineers to join a high-performing engineering team delivering modern, secure and scalable software solutions. This is an opportunity to work … contribute to large-scale modernisation programmes, and help drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices within highly regulated environments. The Role As a Lead or Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and delivering high-quality software systems that balance ...

Lead D365 Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DGH Recruitment
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Salary
£80,000
Lead D365 Software Engineer The Lead D365 Software Engineer will help drive the evolution of a large-scale Microsoft business applications platform. This is an opportunity to provide technical leadership, define engineering standards, and deliver secure, scalable solutions that support key business operations … high-quality solutions. Alongside hands-on development, you will mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and champion best practices across the development lifecycle. Key Responsibilities - Lead the design, development, and delivery of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions. - Define engineering standards, governance, and best practices. - Develop and maintain integrations between ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Indotronix Avani UK Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Freelance / Project collaboration, Hybrid
Title: Lead Software Engineer Location: Hybrid – 40% onsite in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff or Northeast Duration: 12 months IR35: Inside IR35 Overview Our client is seeking experienced Lead Software Engineers to design, build and support secure, scalable digital services within a government environment. The role … will focus on delivering resilient software solutions that support export control and regulatory systems, while providing technical leadership across agile delivery teams. Essential Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience with Python and Django Proven ability to design and deliver complex systems end-to-end Experience leading engineering delivery within agile ...

Lead Fullstack Software Engineer - Java, Springboot, Microservices

Hiring Organisation
TPXImpact Holdings Plc
Location
East London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Salary
£75,000
looking for a Lead Software Engineer who will be responsible for the design, development, and deployment of high-quality software solutions. This role involves leading a team of engineers on high-profile projects, ensuring best practices are followed, and driving continuous improvement in software development … processes. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management and UX/UI, to ensure that our software solutions meet business and customer needs. You will be responsible for driving culture through your craft and be keen to take on line management responsibilities. Responsibilities Lead ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Wokingham, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
client is a major defence and aerospace company. Date Posted: 2026-11-03 Country: United Kingdom Location: Winnersh, Wokingham Position Role Type: Hybrid Lead Software Engineer Permanent Winnersh Benefits: £: Competitive salary Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution) 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance' with pension … systems and simulators to the whole of the UK armed forces. The initial project will be within the Submarine Training simulation & emulation team. The software engineer is responsible for the design, delivery and integration of innovative and high-quality software products within an Agile software delivery ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
information about our product line: https://www.senceive.com/https://sensornetworksinc.com/https://sisgeo.com/We are looking for Software Team lead, to lead the delivery, quality and day-to-day running of a software engineering team building an IoT remote … monitoring platform. In this leadership-focused role, you will drive technical delivery, team leadership and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-quality, reliable software solutions across all stakeholders. You will act as a key connector between engineering, product, support and quality. Be a part of something bigger. At Eddyfi ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
BAE Systems
Location
Portsmouth, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Hybrid
Title: Lead Software Engineer Location: Various locations across the UK and Scotland – 1 day per week on site on average subject to business needs. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role Salary … where a career at BAE Systems could take you. What you'll be doing: You will serve as a key member of the Software Team, providing technical expertise and guidance in the development, testing and maintenance of software packages/applications. Working within a DevSecOps environment, the role ...

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien Resourcing Limited
Location
South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Lead/Senior Software Engineer/DV Clearable/5 Days Onsite Location: London We're seeking experienced Lead and Senior Software Engineers to join a high-performing engineering team delivering modern, secure and scalable software solutions. This is an opportunity to work ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
will lead a small product engineering team while staying close to the code. This is not a role where you hand the technical work to somebody else. You will set direction, make pragmatic architecture decisions, help the team deliver reliably and step into the difficult engineering work when that … Technical leadership and architecture Own the technical direction for the products and services within your team, aligned with the wider Engineering & Data architecture. Lead solution design, make clear technical decisions and document the important ones. Make sure solutions are secure, maintainable, observable, supportable and proportionate to the problem being ...

UI Lead Software Engineer - React / TypeScript

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
client is a leading global investment bank. JOB DESCRIPTION Lead and shape the UI for a real-time trading platform, delivering high-performance user experiences that drive business outcomes. As a Lead Software Engineer (UI) at our client within Digital Markets Execution Technology you will … front-end technical direction and lead hands-on delivery of a latency-sensitive, real-time user experience used directly by traders and sales. You will partner closely with business stakeholders, product specialists, designers, and control partners to build intuitive, high-signal workflows at scale. This role emphasizes engineering excellence ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at our client within the Commercial & Investment Bankyou are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build … access. This is an exciting time as we migrate to AWS, re-architect our applications and build-out greenfield projects. Job responsibilities Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems Develops ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
BAE Systems
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Title: Lead Software Engineer Location: Various locations across the UK and Scotland - 1 day per week on site on average subject to business needs. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role Salary ...

Lead Software Engineer - Staff Salesforce

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals. As a Lead Software Engineer at our client within our Personal Investing, you will work as a hands-on Staff Salesforce Engineer to drive … Responsibilities: Define and evolve the CRM Servicing engineering strategy aligned to business goals and drive towards a technology target-state architecture for CRM Servicing. Lead technical discovery and solution architecture as a trusted advisor, aligning designs to business objectives and ensuring stakeholders understand decisions, trade-offs, and implications. Deliver ...

Lead Software Engineer - Hybrid, End-to-End Platform Ownership

Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Open University is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape and operate digital products and platforms that support students and staff. You will work closely with Product and Delivery Managers in a multidisciplinary team, reporting to the Group Engineering Lead on technical direction and standards. … role covers architecture, software, infrastructure, pipelines, testing, security and reliability, with coaching and possible line-management responsibilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
production with confidence. If you enjoy building scalable systems and improving developer experience, this role offers meaningful impact and career growth. As a Lead software engineer at our client within the Corporate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Platforms team, you will build and enhance products that … issues and patterns in systems and data; improve code health, observability, and platform architecture Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts Experience with modern architecture patterns (such as microservices, reactive architectures, event-driven architectures) Experience developing and deploying large language model-powered solutions ...

Senior Software Engineer - Lead Cloud & Microservices

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Aurora Energy Research Limited in Oxford, UK, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to turn product ideas into robust cloud-based solutions for the energy transition. You will work on microservices using TypeScript/ExpressJS/AWS Lambdas and React, delivering customer-facing software from design … deployment. You will lead a talented team, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems. #J-18808-Ljbffr ...

Lead Embedded Software Engineer - Video Systems

Hiring Organisation
Audio Visual Recruitment Ltd
Location
SL1, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60000 - £85000/annum Negotiable dependent on experience
seeking an experienced, hands-on embedded software engineer to take technical ownership of a video systems platform. You will lead embedded software architecture, evaluate components and platforms, develop working prototypes, and deliver reliable production-ready systems. You will collaborate closely with hardware engineers and external specialists … translating technical requirements into robust, measurable solutions. Key Responsibilities Own the embedded software architecture and contribute to system design and platform selection. Develop and maintain low-level C/C++ software for video processing, hardware control and network communication. Evaluate and integrate hardware codecs, vendor SDKs, drivers ...

Sr Lead Software Engineer - Market Risk Technology SRE

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
unprecedented levels by joining a team of exceptionally gifted professionals and position yourself among the top echelon in site reliability. As a Senior Lead Engineer at our client within the Market Risk Technology SRE team, you work with your fellow stakeholders to define non-functional requirements (NFRs … safe AI usage in operations (e.g., review/approval expectations and escalation paths) while maintaining resiliency, security, and auditability outcomes. Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable depth in one or more technical disciplines Demonstrated ability to communicate data-based solutions with complex reporting and visualization ...

Lead AI Software Engineer – LLM & Backend

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Aurora Energy Research Limited is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to lead a team of engineers and data scientists in building cloud-based software for modelling power grids. You will own projects from initial user discussions to fully deployed production systems, collaborating with modelling ...

Lead Platform Software Engineer - Robotics

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to design and integrate software for heterogeneous robotic systems and laboratory automation. You will own major platform components from architecture to deployment, building backend services, adapters, and APIs that coordinate devices, sensors, and controllers. You will work with ...

Lead Software Engineer - Linux Platform Validation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
readiness for hardened RHEL platforms through automated testing, integration validation, and modern engineering practices across virtualized and containerized environments. About the Role As a Lead Linux Platform Validation Engineer, you will help shape the quality and reliability of enterprise Linux platforms that support critical business services. You will … quality engineering, you will solve complex compatibility challenges spanning operating systems, databases, application platforms, partner agents, and container ecosystems. What You'll Do Engineer, test, and validate hardened RHEL server images. Build automated validation frameworks and integration test harnesses. Develop CI/CD-driven validation pipelines with measurable quality ...

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Salary
£85,000
Senior & Lead Full Stack Software Engineers | Permanent | Up to £85,000 I'm recruiting for a digital and tech-led organisation that is growing its engineering teams. They need two T-shaped engineers, one at senior level and one at lead level. The roles Design, build … deploy high-quality, scalable and secure software solutions Work on complex, high-profile projects, shaping architecture and engineering standards Explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders Lead only: guide, mentor and line manage engineers, and lead technical delivery What you'll bring Proven full stack experience ...

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £85,000 per annum
Senior & Lead Full Stack Software Engineers | Permanent | Up to £85,000 I'm recruiting for a digital and tech-led organisation that is growing its engineering teams. They need two T-shaped engineers, one at senior level and one at lead level. The roles Design, build … deploy high-quality, scalable and secure software solutions Work on complex, high-profile projects, shaping architecture and engineering standards Explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders Lead only: guide, mentor and line manage engineers, and lead technical delivery What you'll bring Proven full stack experience ...