Salary: £75,000 – 75,000 per year
Requirements:
- Strong backend software engineering skills and experience
- Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience
- Technical or team leadership experience, including mentoring and coaching
- Advocacy for software engineering best practices
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, multithreading, design patterns, and data structures
- Comfort with agentic AI coding
- Collaborative and pragmatic approach, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Nice to have: Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, or AWS experience
Responsibilities:
- Guide and inspire a small, high-performing development team working on real-time sports betting applications
- Balance hands-on architecture and coding with people management, including coaching and mentoring
- Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and oversee the full delivery lifecycle
- Ensure the product backlog is delivered efficiently and to a high standard
- Promote engineering excellence, best practices, and continuous improvement across the team and wider organisation
- Create a developer-friendly environment that enables individuals to focus, innovate, and perform at their best
Technologies:
- Agentic AI
- AI
- AWS
- Backend
- Docker
- Java
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Product Owner
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- TDD
- Cloud
- OOP
More:
We are a global games software house offering the opportunity to work on complex systems with the latest technology in a diverse, supportive environment. The Lead Software Engineer / Team Lead role is based in Central Manchester, with three days a week in the office and flexibility to work from home twice a week. The salary is up to £78,000. Our benefits include the option to work anywhere for one month per year, a personalised training budget, pension, healthcare including dental and optical cover, wellness experiences, gym subsidy, cycle-to-work scheme, volunteer days, and career progression opportunities. The role offers continual learning and an approximately 80/20 split between hands-on technical work and people management.
last updated 40 week of 2026
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