Lead Software Engineer
Kainos
Overview
In this Lead Software Engineer role, you’ll guide teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that make a global impact. You’ll balance hands-on technical work with coaching, performance management, and mentoring to develop junior engineers. You’ll engage with customers, share knowledge, and drive technical direction in a fast-paced environment. This role combines leadership with hands-on engineering to shape scalable, secure applications and modern tech practices.
Responsibilities- Lead and develop teams to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to the team
- Make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment while exploring new technologies
- Own technical aspects of products/projects including architecture, estimation, and requirements
- Coach and develop junior staff and support their career growth
- Interact with customers to share knowledge and solutions
- Support and promote modern software development practices (e.g., XP, TDD) and CI/CD initiatives
- Expertise in designing, building, testing and maintaining modern software applications
- Technical leadership of teams delivering scalable, secure, high-performance software
- Experience with technical ownership for a product including architecture and planning
- Proven ability to design across all layers of an application
- Experience coaching and developing junior team members
- Experience with latest CI/CD techniques
- Good communication skills (technical and non-technical audiences)
- Knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Mentoring and people development
- Software design and development across all layers
- Experience with XP and TDD
- Multiple programming languages and data storage technologies
Reference: WJ-747_30146630