Lead Software Developer - Companies House - SEO (IT)

As a Lead Developer managing a Scrum team, you will: Provide technical Leadership to your team. Coach and support your team to upskill their technical capabilities and ensure they design and deliver efficient and maintainable solutions. Communicate between the product owners and developers to ensure key deliverables are achieved and understood by both parties. Work with the wider developer community to define and document technical standards. Help and encourage your team to maximise their automated test coverage. Work closely with the Architects for design and the Platform team who manage our development pipeline using Concourse CI, SonarQube, AWS, Terraform and Artifactory. We use Docker containers and AWS ECS. Take the lead in sharing your knowledge and experience within our software development and lead software developer communities. As a Lead Developer within our R&D Team, you will work within a team of other Lead Developers as an individual contributor. You will use your highly technical skillset to: Develop and deliver Proof of Concepts. Evaluate different technologies for fitness of purpose and suitability for wider user. Investigate ongoing issues (process/systems/projects) and seek resolutions. Support Scrum teams where required. Show flexibility and maturity of approach. Keep up to date with technology advances. Approach problems in an analytical way. Accurately record and document findings. If you are looking for a place where you can focus on your own development as well as support others to succeed and perform at their best, then this is the role for you ? either leading a Scrum team or working as a member of our R&D team. This is an exciting time to join us as we constantly evolve our own technical capabilities and ways of working to make our work at Companies House more efficient and easier to use for our users and customers. You will be joining a passionate team of Developers with varying levels of technical abilities. There are many other experienced Lead Developers and Principal Developers within Companies House, so you will be surrounded by a friendly community of experts who will fully support you.

Location: UK, GB

Posted Date: 9/8/2025