Salary
💰 £90,440 - £164,920 per year
Tech Stack
AzureCloudJavaScriptNode.jsReact
About the role
- Lead technical delivery across team, lab, and occasionally platform levels within Homes Digital Lab
- Act as co-lead alongside the Product Owner, jointly accountable for end-to-end delivery
- Own and drive the technical roadmap and application delivery
- Provide line management and mentorship to engineers and contribute directly to software engineering output
- Champion engineering excellence and modern development practices
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across product, design, and business teams to ensure alignment and transparency
- Report to the Lab Engineering Lead and support transforming and maintaining direct customer journeys
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, unblock technical challenges and prove out new patterns and solutions
- Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, resilience, and cost awareness
- Ensure the team is equipped with necessary tools and resources to succeed
Requirements
- Strong technical background in full stack Javascript development (ideally Node and React)
- Proven experience defining technology vision and architecture working closely with lead architects
- Deep, inquisitive focus on technology with a track record of identifying optimisation opportunities
- Hands on experience in improving team productivity, morale and overall efficiency
- Solid background in resilience and security by design
- Experience ensuring teams take full ownership of production issues and a customer-first approach
- Passion for developing talent and attracting/retaining engineering talent to build high-performing teams
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (Ideally Azure) and source control platforms (such as GHE) would be useful
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling, including continuous integration pipelines and containerisation
- Experience in line management, mentorship, and people leadership