Lead Full Stack Software Developer

Summary

Hands-on Lead Full Stack Developer at a UK SaaS company building data-driven customer engagement products, leading a 10+ person squad with TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, AWS, and microservices.

Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Strong full stack development experience, ideally 10+ years
  • 5+ years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience
  • Solid background in system design and scalable architectures
  • Experience building large, production SaaS platforms
  • A clean-code mindset, including SOLID principles, design patterns and testable code
  • Experience working in mature CI/CD and continuous deployment environments
  • A commercial mindset when designing and delivering software
  • Excellent collaboration skills and confidence working with stakeholders
  • Interest in using AI to accelerate and improve software development
  • Passion for performance, security and engineering best practice
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience
Responsibilities:
  • Lead technical delivery across a high-performing development squad of 10+ people
  • Contribute to solution design, system architecture and domain modelling
  • Build proof-of-concepts and spike complex or uncertain areas of work
  • Break down requirements into deliverable epics and user stories alongside product and initiative managers
  • Develop and deliver production-ready code across the full stack
  • Ensure high standards of quality, maintainability, performance and security
  • Support and improve live systems once deployed
  • Influence technical direction, tooling and best practice across the wider engineering function
Technologies:
  • AI
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • JavaScript
  • Security
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • DevSecOps
  • NodeJS
  • Redis
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Vue
  • microservices
  • Fullstack

More:

We are a fast-growing UK SaaS technology company that builds data-driven digital products used by commercial teams to better understand and engage with their customers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a modern cloud-based stack, working from early design through to production delivery and deploying to live environments on a daily basis. The role offers hybrid working within Hampshire, including one day per week in our Fareham office, along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We offer a strong engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and community and charity initiatives including volunteer days.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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