Lead Software Engineer

This Software Developer role in Birmingham, Blackpool is focused on as a Lead Software Engineer, you'll join our Engineering community, providing technical leadership across multiple agile teams delivering critical public services. It would suit someone who can bring careful technical judgement and practical problem-solving to the role.

How the role is set up

Guide teams through complex technical decisions, promote modern engineering practices, and help embed consistent standards across the wider engineering community. While this is a senior leadership role, it remains grounded in real delivery - you'll understand the systems, the trade-offs and the day-to-day challenges facing engineering teams.

Where someone would start

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll join our Engineering community, providing technical leadership across multiple agile teams delivering critical public services. As our Lead Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across a portfolio of teams and products, shaping how we design, build, test and run software across DWP Digital. Build or support Java backend services with technical follow-through.

What is expected

• Experience leading and influencing multiple engineering teams, setting direction and supporting engineers to do their best work.
• Deep experience building and running systems in cloud environments (AWS or Azure), including APIs, RESTful services and microservice architectures.

Job details

• Get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%.
• That's £80,267 salary plus a Digital Allowance of up to £12,255 subject to our assessment of your capability at interview.
• A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
• You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.

Requirements mentioned

• JavaScript