Lead Software Engineer (Java, AWS) - Contract Role - Inside IR35

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer for an initial 6 Month Contract (Inside IR35) role, providing technical leadership and guidance to Engineers across all squads, and leading by example to deliver and maintain production ready, secure, stable, and performant code.

Requirements

• Significant experience of delivery of software solutions in squads operating in a lean, agile, DevSecOps based environment, in a senior or leadership role.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and modern software engineering tooling.
• Demonstrable experience of providing clear technology leadership, direction and decision making for a whole team.
• Experience of building, integrating, maintaining, and managing complex software architectures (both build and bought), ideally across multi-cloud environments.
• Experience of building software applications that have security, reliability, scalability, high availability, and concurrency built-in from the outset.
• A strong collaborator, communicator, and decision maker.
• Confident and comfortable to share stories internally and externally to build our Very Group brand and credibility to attract and retain talent.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a leading company in the industry
• Chance to lead a team of engineers and contribute to the company's technology landscape
• Hybrid working arrangement (onsite 2 days a week)