Full Stack Software Lead - National Security

Join our growing team and help strengthen the UK's safety and resilience.

We're a leading technology and engineering company supporting customers across National Security, Defence and Intelligence, delivering systems that operate in the most demanding and sensitive environments.

As a Full Stack Software Lead, you'll deliver mission critical solutions for National Security customers - building products that protect people, platforms, missions and information against evolving threats.

You'll help customers use data to improve mission outcomes, lead teams hands-on, and mentor others while working at the forefront of innovation.

What you'll be doing:

• You'll lead a team delivering valuable increments across back-end technologies.

• Partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape the roadmap.

• Turn user needs into epics/stories and define effective ways of working.

• Build secure, maintainable software using test-driven practices.

• Select suitable patterns across established and emerging technologies.

• Convert designs into working implementations and document to required standards.

• Develop and maintain APIs, UI components and data pipelines within existing data infrastructure.

• Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies (stand-ups, refinement, planning, demos).

• Keep the team aligned on upcoming features, impacts, and user needs.

What you'll bring (or Required Skills / Qualifications):

• Back-end: Java (Spring Boot) and/or Go.

• Front-end: React or Vue.js.

• Testing: JUnit/Jest/Cypress (or equivalent).

• Tooling: GitLab/Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI/Argo CD/Jenkins, Jira/Confluence.