Lead Software Engineer at Answer Digital — Leeds, GBR | Base Career

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We are looking to recruit a Lead Software Engineer to join our Engineering Community and take technical ownership of the delivery of our large-scale, operationally critical client projects.

This is a senior, client-facing technical leadership role.

You'll own the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end – from concept through to live operation – while mentoring engineers and helping grow our engineering capability.

What you'll be doing

Owning the technical delivery of a project or subsystem end-to-end – design, development, documentation and release – ensuring solutions are of a high engineering standard and fit for operational use
Defining and owning the technical quality processes for your engagement, including build pipelines, code quality, testing and source control
Leading client engagements for development, from project inception through to delivery, acting as the primary technical point of contact
Leading technical discussions and aligning stakeholders and teams around a resolution
Owning requirements analysis and solution design, translating business needs into robust technical architecture
Continually reviewing tools and processes to identify and drive improvements within your engagement, and advising clients on opportunities for improvement beyond it
Mentoring and supporting the growth of Mid-Level to Senior Engineers, including task-level support and technical quality coaching
Contributing to presales and pitches for new work, and building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
Building deep expertise in one or more technology ecosystems, and sharing that knowledge across Answer to both technical and non-technical audiences
Taking ownership for impact-assessing change and managing delivery risk
Ensuring the solutions you own are secure, scalable, observable and cost-optimised
Championing the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools within your team, keeping abreast of new tooling and sharing learning across Answer
Identifying opportunities where AI-powered capabilities (for example LLM integrations or intelligent automation) could add value within client engagements, bringing in our AI Engineering capability where deeper specialist expertise is needed

What you'll bring to Answer

We pride ourselves on having a fair but flexible recruitment process, we want to create a platform where you can show us your best.

For us, keeping it simple means you can focus on understanding if our people, values and the work we do are right for you.

Our typical process can be broken down into 3 stages;

Recruiter call: This normally lasts 15-30 minutes. We will talk to you about Answer Digital, the type of work we do, and an overview of the role. We’ll ask you some questions about your current situation and why you’re interested in working here. Here, we’d advise asking any “people” questions, anything about our culture, career progression or approach to flexible working.
Skills based interview: This interview will be with 2 people, normally from the team you’re applying to work with. We can do this stage remote or in person, whichever you’d prefer. This interview will involve questions around your experience, the skills you’ve gained and the work you’ve done. We’ll also ask questions about the role and challenges you might face and how you’d face them. Here, we’d recommend asking questions about the role, the day to day responsibilities and what life in the team is like.
Cultural/Value interview: This interview will be with 2 of our Leadership team, either our Directors or Capability Leads. It will focus on our culture and values, talking about our values and what they mean to us as well as understanding what values are important to you and how you like to work. This interview is about making sure Answer is right for you, as much as the other way around. Here, we advise you to ask as many questions around our business model, our ambitious growth plans and anything to do with Answer as a business.

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