Software Engineering Team Lead

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and mentor a team of software engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Own the delivery of software features, improvements, and technical initiatives from planning through to release.
• Provide technical direction for the team, including design decisions, architecture alignment, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders to understand priorities and translate them into achievable engineering plans.
• Break down complex work into clear, well-scoped tasks with realistic estimates, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute hands-on to software development where appropriate, including design, coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Review code and technical designs to ensure quality, maintainability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Identify and manage technical risks, delivery blockers, dependencies, and opportunities to reduce technical debt.
• Promote agile engineering practices, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, continuous improvement, and transparent progress reporting.
• Ensure the team builds solutions that meet business needs, customer expectations, operational requirements, and agreed engineering standards.
• Provide expertise into the software development process

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in software engineering, typically gained through several years of hands-on development in commercial embedded environments
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery within a software engineering team.
• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices, including software design, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, code review, and secure development.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills, sound engineering judgement, and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team environment.
• Understanding of operational considerations such as reliability, observability, incident response, performance, and supportability.
• Experience in some or preferable all of the following C, C++, VHDL, MATLAB, Python, Git Hub and Git lab
• Full Software Development Lifecycle experience from requirements capture to Final test.

Desirable Skills

• Experience leading distributed, hybrid, or cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience of working in embedded communication platforms such as Software Defined Radios (SDRs) would be desirable but not essential
• Experience improving engineering practices, development processes, tooling, or team ways of working.
• Familiarity with architectural decision records, technical roadmaps, service ownership models, or platform engineering concepts.
• Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance development and progression planning for engineers.

Success Measures

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