Senior Software Development Lead

Overview:

Provide technical leadership across development teams to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. The role combines hands-on development expertise with leadership responsibilities, translating business requirements into robust technical solutions while driving engineering excellence, delivery consistency, and collaboration across onshore and offshore teams.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery

Lead the design and development of key features, components, and services across the application stack

Provide hands-on guidance in building scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript

Own critical technical decisions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and long-term scalability goals

Act as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges and design issues

Solution Design & Requirement Translation

Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs and implementation plans

Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders to refine requirements and define solution approaches

Produce and review technical design documentation, API specifications, and architectural artefacts

Engineering Excellence & Governance

Define and enforce coding standards, development best practices, and quality benchmarks

Conduct code reviews to ensure maintainability, performance, and security compliance

Ensure adherence to DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and secure coding

Monitor and improve non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience

Team Leadership & Offshore Coordination

Guide and mentor offshore and distributed development teams, ensuring alignment to delivery standards

Allocate tasks, oversee progress, and provide regular technical direction to team members

Facilitate knowledge transfer, technical upskilling, and team capability development

Ensure effective coordination between onshore and offshore teams, managing dependencies and delivery risks

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

Work closely with architects, QA teams, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders

Participate in and contribute to design reviews, sprint planning, and governance forums

Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Delivery & Agile Execution

Support Agile delivery processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives

Ensure timely and predictable delivery of features aligned with sprint and programme objectives

Identify risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Essential skills:

Core Technologies

Front-end: React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript

Back-end: Node.js (Express.js/NestJS)

API Development: RESTful services, microservices architecture

Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)

Architecture & Design

Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (microservices, layered architecture, event-driven systems)

Experience with scalable and cloud-native solution design

Knowledge of system integration patterns and API design principles

DevOps & Cloud

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Exposure to containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)

Engineering Practices

Strong grounding in clean code principles and design patterns (SOLID, DRY)

Experience with test automation, code quality tools, and static analysis

Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements

Experience:

Overall experience with strong hands-on development background

Proven experience in technical leadership or senior development roles

Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in Agile environments

Exposure to distributed delivery models (onshore/offshore teams)

Non-Functional Expectations

Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Ability to balance technical depth with delivery and business priorities

Proactive problem-solving and decision-making mindset

High level of accountability and ownership

Expected Outcomes & Success Measures

Solution Quality & Delivery

Delivery of high-quality, scalable, and production-ready solutions aligned with business requirements

Strong alignment between functional requirements and technical implementation

Reduction in defects and improved system stability

Team Performance & Coordination

Efficient coordination between onshore and offshore teams, resulting in predictable delivery outcomes

Improved team productivity, technical capability, and adherence to standards

Engineering Excellence

Consistent enforcement of coding standards, architecture principles, and best practices

Measurable improvements in code quality, test coverage, and deployment reliability

Stakeholder Value

Positive stakeholder feedback on solution quality, responsiveness, and collaboration

Contribution to successful delivery of programme and release milestones

Benefits:

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges

We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to their skills and take part in inspiring projects

Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses

Competitive company benefits

Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible

Communicating and promoting vacancies

Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job

Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required

Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.