Description
We are recruiting for Lead Software Developers to be part of our warm and collaborative Legal Aid Agency (LAA) Digital team.
As a Lead Developer, you will inspire, mentor, coach, manage and lead Software Developers within a business domain. You will focus on generating a culture of quality, maintaining balance between building sustainable well-architected products and unlocking citizen value early.
The areas of your responsibility for leadership will shift between people, architecture, development and product strategy, depending on context and need.
You will have responsibility for one team, or two small related teams, and report to the Principal Developers.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Technical Architects and Product Managers to set product direction
- Collaborate with Technical Architects to help in the design of systems and implementation of coherent and sustainable technical roadmaps
- Lead discussions with Developers to nurture consensus on technical/team decisions
- Support backlog refinement, helping plan, define and prioritise actionable tasks for the team
- Build inclusivity and understanding by promoting strategies to share technical knowledge of our systems with appropriate documentation and other activities
- Support Delivery Managers in unblocking value where necessary and/or honest representations of effort in an agile environment as the teams learn more
Benefits:
- A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme
- 25 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours
- Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development
- A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people
Tech Stack:
- Java, Python, Ruby
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Sentry for application monitoring
- Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services
- AWS for most of our infrastructure
- GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces
- MacBook Pros
Person Specification:
- Experience making and guiding complex technical decisions and contributing to technical strategy
- Experience nurturing a culture of good software practice that makes change easy
- Experience in delivering value sooner and safer, through DevOps, XP or other ways of working that lead to agility and collaboration
- Experience either coaching or managing other people
Salary: £58,511 - £78,225 per year