Lead Full Stack Engineer

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Full Stack Lead Engineer

We're looking for an Lead Engineer to join our Application Platform Team, who combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, capable of guiding teams delivering high quality, production ready solutions. You'll bring hands on experience across modern engineering stacks and be comfortable working closely with platform, product, and data teams to deliver scalable systems. Alongside this, you'll play a key role in developing and supporting engineers at different levels, fostering a collaborative, high performing environment, and ensuring best practices around code quality, reliability, and delivery are consistently upheld.

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience with .NET, Python, React/JavaScript, and Terraform (bonus: exposure to Go/Rust)
• Comfortable with cloud native environments (Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps) and working alongside platform teams
• Proven experience shipping production code, ideally in cloud environments
• Solid CI/CD knowledge (pipelines, testing, deployment) with tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Octopus
• Prioritises code quality, testing, and standards as a given
• Familiar with Kubernetes patterns, ArgoCD, secrets management, and multi cloud (GCP/Azure)
• Good understanding of observability (e.g. New Relic) and what "good" looks like in production
• Able to set direction, not just follow - comfortable working cross functionally
• Experience managing engineers and supporting team growth
• Works effectively in Agile teams and keeps processes pragmatic
• Strong communicator, able to engage both technical and non technical stakeholders
• Encourages knowledge sharing through practical approaches (pairing, documentation, etc.)