As a Lead Developer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across one or a small number of related product engineering teams, setting direction, improving delivery quality and shaping cloud-based services that support critical public-facing platforms.

• Lead the design and development of cloud-based services, with particular emphasis on serverless architecture and Node.js.
• Set technical direction for the team, including architecture decisions, engineering standards and appropriate technology choices.
• Guide team ways of working to improve pace, quality, resilience and maintainability.
• Coach and mentor developers, promoting strong engineering practice, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the wider developer community and help raise technical capability across teams.
• Ensure an effective handover of knowledge, processes and relevant intellectual property at the end of the engagement.

Skills needed for this role

• Strong Node.js and AWS serverless delivery experience. You have a strong track record building and evolving production services using Node.js and serverless technologies across compute and data layers.
• Technical leadership. You can set direction, make sound engineering decisions, mentor developers and establish standards that improve team performance.
• Secure and resilient systems design. You design services with security, reliability, scalability and operational supportability built in from the outset.
• Modern engineering practice. You apply modern development standards, improve delivery processes and use pragmatic approaches to prototyping, integration and service support.
• User-centred delivery. You work effectively with multidisciplinary teams and keep user needs central when shaping technical solutions.