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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Lead Forensics
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, Software Design Patterns, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Information Technology, Build Tools, Virtual Agents, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2854918188-staff-software-engineer

## About the Role

Current and production grade TypeScript fluency (approx. 5+years experience) is necessary for this particular position., * Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including competencies to work directly with customers.

 * Experience developing with clean code, SOLID principals and design patterns.
 * Experience across all areas of full stack development, ideally developing large scale SaaS platforms.
 * Experience of working in a mature CI/CD environment, continuously deploying stories every day, following the DevSecOps methodology.
 * A strong general aptitude for programming and problem solving.You'll need to pick up new tools and techniques quickly and use them to solve problems.

Our ideal candidate will also be able to show

 * A forward-thinking approach to accelerating production quality software development using AI (professional or personal).
 * Experience with automated testing and quality assurance.
 * An understanding of how to build systems that perform well at scale.
 * Enthusiasm for building secure systems and implementing security best practices.
 * Enthusiasm for driving high standards in software development and working with like-minded people towards achieving ever higher levels of efficiency and performance.
 * A technical/computer science degree or equivalent professional experience.

## Description

* Working with stakeholders on initial solution design, scoping and system design.
 * Spiking areas of uncertainty in designs and building POCs as required.
 * Work with our Product Teams to help break down work into deliverable Epics and Stories.
 * Turning user stories into code running in production as a high performing individual contributor lead developer and embedded architect in an Agentic AI environment.
 * Ensuring the quality, maintainability and operability of code.
 * Supporting the product that the team has built as it runs in production and resolving issues.
 * Responsible for the design, architecture and implementation decisions for the product.


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