Lead Full Stack Software Developer

Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

Salary: £80,000 – 100,000 per year


Requirements:



  • Strong full stack development experience, ideally 10+ years

  • 5+ years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience

  • Solid background in system design and scalable architectures

  • Experience building large, production SaaS platforms

  • A clean-code mindset, including SOLID principles, design patterns and testable code

  • Experience working in mature CI/CD and continuous deployment environments

  • A commercial mindset when designing and delivering software

  • Excellent collaboration skills and confidence working with stakeholders

  • Interest in using AI to accelerate and improve software development

  • Passion for performance, security and engineering best practice

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent real-world experience


Responsibilities:



  • Lead technical delivery across a high-performing development squad of 10+ people

  • Contribute to solution design, system architecture and domain modelling

  • Build proof-of-concepts and spike complex or uncertain areas of work

  • Break down requirements into deliverable epics and user stories alongside product and initiative managers

  • Develop and deliver production-ready code across the full stack

  • Ensure high standards of quality, maintainability, performance and security

  • Support and improve live systems once deployed

  • Influence technical direction, tooling and best practice across the wider engineering function


Technologies:



  • AI

  • CI/CD

  • Cloud

  • Support

  • JavaScript

  • Security

  • TypeScript

  • AWS

  • DevSecOps

  • NodeJS

  • Redis

  • SQL

  • Snowflake

  • Vue

  • microservices

  • Fullstack


More:


We are a fast-growing UK SaaS technology company that builds data-driven digital products used by commercial teams to better understand and engage with their customers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a modern cloud-based stack, working from early design through to production delivery and deploying to live environments on a daily basis. The role offers hybrid working within Hampshire, including one day per week in our Fareham office, along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We offer a strong engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and community and charity initiatives including volunteer days.

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Posted: September 21st, 2026