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Project overview
Lead Software Developer
£525/day Inside IR35 | Remote | Active SC Clearance Required
Contract until 31st March 2027 + likely extension
We're looking for an experienced Lead Software Developer to join a high-profile programme delivering scalable, cloud-based solutions within a secure environment. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys driving technical direction while remaining actively involved in design and development.
Working within an agile delivery team, you'll play a key role in building and enhancing modern applications, APIs, and cloud-native services, whilst mentoring developers and promoting engineering best practice.
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Reasonable Adjustments:
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.
- Lead the design and development of robust, scalable software solutions
- Drive technical decision-making and provide guidance to development teams
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices
- Build and support cloud-native applications hosted in AWS and Azure
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, testers, and stakeholders across the delivery life cycle
- Champion code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices
- Support deployment, containerisation, and platform optimisation activities
- Strong commercial experience with Node.js
- API development using REST and OpenAPI
- Web application development using HAPI
- Database expertise across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis
- Unit testing with Jest and Lab
- Source control using Git
- Cloud platform experience in AWS and/or Azure
- Containerisation technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS
- CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
- Experience using Jira and Azure DevOps for work management and delivery tracking
Project details
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 6 months
- Remote: onsite
- Location: London, United Kingdom, GB
- Rate: 66-66 EUR/h
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