Lead Full Stack Software Developer in Southampton, United Kingdom

Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year Requirements:

• Strong full stack development experience, ideally 10+ years
• 5+ years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience
• Solid background in system design and scalable architectures
• Experience building large, production SaaS platforms
• A clean-code mindset, including SOLID principles, design patterns and testable code
• Experience working in mature CI/CD and continuous deployment environments
• A commercial mindset when designing and delivering software
• Excellent collaboration skills and confidence working with stakeholders
• Interest in using AI to accelerate and improve software development
• Passion for performance, security and engineering best practice
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience

• Lead technical delivery across a high-performing development squad of 10+ people
• Contribute to solution design, system architecture and domain modelling
• Build proof-of-concepts and spike complex or uncertain areas of work
• Break down requirements into deliverable epics and user stories alongside product and initiative managers
• Develop and deliver production-ready code across the full stack
• Ensure high standards of quality, maintainability, performance and security
• Support and improve live systems once deployed
• Influence technical direction, tooling and best practice across the wider engineering function

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• JavaScript
• Security
• TypeScript
• AWS
• DevSecOps
• NodeJS
• Redis
• SQL
• Snowflake
• Vue
• microservices
• Fullstack

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We are a fast-growing UK SaaS technology company that builds data-driven digital products used by commercial teams to better understand and engage with their customers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a modern cloud-based stack, working from early design through to production delivery and deploying to live environments on a daily basis. The role offers hybrid working within Hampshire, including one day per week in our Fareham office, along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We offer a strong engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and community and charity initiatives including volunteer days.

last updated 43 week of 2026