Lead Software Engineer
AND Digital10 hours ago
Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and expertise that informs delivery decisions and supports capability development across teams.
- Act as the most senior engineer on projects, providing technical guidance and ensuring complex initiatives meet business and technical outcomes and quality standards.
- Implement and guide architecture, DevOps, performance, security, CI/CD, and deployment practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and support Squad Leads.
- Consider client business concerns when making technical decisions and managing stakeholder challenges.
- Develop rapid prototypes to validate technical solutions and reduce delivery risk.
- Create effective documentation and translate technical expertise into learning programmes and knowledge-sharing practices.
Requirements
- Proven commercial experience as a Lead Engineer in a development team, ideally with expert Java knowledge or broader experience across tools and frameworks.
- Experience delivering scalable, production-ready systems that meet business requirements.
- Experience applying architecture, DevOps, performance, and security best practices.
- Strong understanding and ownership of TDD, SOLID, and XP approaches.
- Experience with CI/CD practices and deployments.
- Experience mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance, and supporting capability development.
- Experience writing documentation, sharing knowledge, and developing learning programmes.
- Proven experience using an AI coding assistant such as Claude Code.
- Ability to work collaboratively with clients and multidisciplinary teams, navigate ambiguity, and communicate clearly.
Benefits
- 25 days of bookable holiday plus flexible Bank Holidays.
- AND Digital contributes 6% of salary to a pension, with a further 2% paid by the employee and the option to increase contributions.
- Aviva healthcare cover, including pre-existing condition cover.
- £1000 Flexibenefit allowance through the benefits portal, with unused allowance available as cash.
- Life Assurance and Income Protection.
- Eye test and first pair of glasses.
- Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.
About AND Digital
AND Digital is a London-headquartered consulting firm that builds and modernises web and mobile products, cloud platforms, and data capabilities for large consumer and enterprise brands. It embeds cross-functional teams with clients to deliver software while upskilling in-house teams through agile coaching and digital learning. Founded in 2014 and privately held, it operates across the UK and Netherlands; clients have included British Airways and Heineken.