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Lead Software Engineer

Understanding Recruitment — United Kingdom · Posted ~4 hours ago

Lead Full-time Hybrid Visa History ✓ £120000-£130000 + bonus + benefits

Skills

React.js JVM Full-stack development Distributed systems Software architecture Technical leadership People management Cross-functional collaboration

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Lead a small engineering team while remaining deeply hands-on with software development. You’ll spend most of your time designing, architecting and implementing complex distributed systems and customer-facing features, while also managing people, shaping technical direction and translating business requirements into actionable engineering plans.

Highlights

High-compensation lead role combining hands-on engineering with people management, architecture ownership, and technical leadership. The position offers substantial influence over modern customer-facing systems and complex distributed architecture.

Description

Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack Team - React.js/JVM) 💰 £120,000 - £130,000 + bonus + excellent Benefits 📍 Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone 1) Want to manage and lead a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy? Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?🌍🌱 Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK’s most exciting clean tech companies. As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands-on with day-to-day coding. You’ll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. This opportunity is 70% hands-on and 30% people management and line manager responsibilities. What You’ll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems.Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)Contribute to fullstack design using Next.js (60%) and Kotlin (40%), supporting a polyglot mindset.Work directly with customers/stakeholders and product managersCollaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling and system design.Grow and shape your team 💻 Next.js, React.js, Kotlin (JVM), Springboot, Ktor, AI tooling, AWS, distributed systems, microservices, CI/CD, modern engineering practices and methodologies What They're Looking For Deep fullstack engineering experience; any Frontend & JVM backgroundsStrong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.Experience scaling production systems in fast-moving product environments.Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact? Apply now and help shape the future of clean energy at scale. 🚗🔌