# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Digital Catapult
**Location**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: c. £65,000-75,000 pa
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Belfast office and lead technical delivery across Digital Catapult's software projects.

You will design and build software hands-on, set the technical direction on the projects you lead, mentor engineers and help grow our engineering presence in Belfast.

### Responsibilities

- Lead technical delivery on a variety of projects, from rapid prototypes to production platforms.

- Design and build software end to end using TypeScript, Python, Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code on Azure.

- Set the standard for architecture, code quality, security and testing on the projects you lead.

- Mentor engineers and help build our engineering team in Belfast.

- Work with product, design, research and client stakeholders to turn requirements into working software.

- Own the operation of the platforms you build, including monitoring, troubleshooting and performance.

### Requirements

- Technical leadership on complex, multi-language software projects.

- Strong backend engineering in TypeScript/JavaScript plus at least one other language such as Python or Rust.

- Frontend development with a modern framework such as React.

- CI/CD, containers and cloud deployment experience (for example GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes).

- Comfortable collaborating with engineers, designers, researchers and non-technical stakeholders.

- Interest in using generative AI tooling well, and in emerging technologies such as digital twins.

### Salary and Benefits

- Salary: c. £65,000-75,000 pa (subject to experience)

- Discretionary bonus

- Competitive benefits package, including:

+ Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Year   + Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary   + 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits that work for you   + Life insurance 4x salary   + Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice   + Enhanced maternity and paternity leave   + Hybrid working   + Investment in your ongoing learning and development with us

## Skills

### Required
- TypeScript
- Python
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- JavaScript
- React
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- Rust
- generative AI tooling
- digital twins

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