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Lead Software Engineer

ArrowsUnited Kingdom🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 7 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

About Us

We're a technology consultancy that partners with scale ups, SMEs, and enterprise organisations to accelerate business value, speed, and quality of delivery.


Our consultants bring hands on experience from scaling hypergrowth companies in sectors like food delivery and e-commerce. We work in a few different ways: embedding senior engineers to lift capability and culture from within, standing up dedicated teams to move fast on complex problems, or advising on architecture, hiring, and scaling strategy.


Two things anchor how we work:

  1. Engineering exists to deliver value, not for its own sake.
  2. Great people build great culture, and great culture builds great products.


Who We're Looking For

  • Proven experience leading technical teams, ideally cross functional teams across more than one organisation
  • Confidence shipping and maintaining web applications in a fast-paced, iterative setting
  • Full-stack comfort, even with a stronger lean toward either front or back end
  • Experience building microservices on container based infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
  • Solid hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Strong grounding in Agile/Lean ways of working


The Work

We work across a range of well-known tech organisations and brands, with ongoing engagements spanning multiple sectors — plus new opportunities on the horizon that would let the right person grow alongside some genuinely excellent engineers.


A flavour of the stack you might use:

  • Languages/runtimes: .NET Core, Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code
  • Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Apollo
  • Cloud (AWS): Lambda, ECS, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis

Skills

Docker
DynamoDB
GCP
Microservices
Node.js
API Gateway
AWS
Agile
Azure
.NET
GraphQL
Java
Kotlin
Kubernetes
Python
React
Terraform
TypeScript

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