Software Development Lead
Posted 10 days 22 hours ago by Harvey Nash Group
£70,000 - £90,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
Newcastle Upon Tyne, City, United Kingdom, NE3 1XW
Job Description
Are you a hands on technical leader who thrives on transforming platforms and setting engineering standards? 
This is an opportunity for a Software Development Lead to shape a major modernisation programme and steer the evolution of a software product into a modern, scalable, API driven architecture.
What You'll Be Doing- Lead and mentor a growing development team whilst remaining hands on.
- Modernise and replatform a legacy application
- Build and enhance backend services, RESTful APIs.
- Collaborate with product, UI/UX and delivery teams to deliver intuitive, future ready features.
- Define engineering best practices, architectural patterns and coding standards.
- Strong full stack developer with hands on experience across multiple programming languages.
- Proven experience leading or mentoring developers.
- Legacy migration experience (essential).
- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, integration patterns and backend architecture.
- Good knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to influence technical direction.
If this opportunity sounds like the right next step for you, please get in touch today to find out more.