Full Stack Software Lead

Roke Manor Research Limited
Gloucester, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
JavaScript
API
Artificial Intelligence
Confluence
JIRA
Data Infrastructure
JUnit
Octopus Deploy
Scrum
Chatbots
React
Spring-boot
Cypress
Backend
Gitlab
GIT
Vue.js
Gitlab-ci
Material Design
Kubernetes
Front End Software Development
Data Pipelines
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

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., Based in Gloucester and customer sites for high-side integration/deployment. Limited hybrid working may be possible, subject to project needs and may vary between assignments.

Requirements

  • 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
  • Experience leading agile teams (Scrum Master training desirable).
  • Use of AI tools to support development (e.g., IDE assistants, chatbots, agentic workflows).
  • Able to learn new technologies quickly., Valid eDV clearance is required for this post. If you are eligible but don't hold eDV, please explore other engineering roles via Roke's Careers Page. Eligibility details can be found on gov.uk.

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