Software Team Lead

Roke Manor Research Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology & engineering company in London is seeking a Full Stack Software Lead to guide technical teams on mission critical projects. The role requires extensive experience in full stack development, agile practices, and strong leadership skills. Ideal candidates will have a passion for innovation and the ability to write clean, secure code. Occasional work at customer sites in London is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams.
• Strong knowledge in software development principles.
• Ability to write secure and clean code.

Responsibilities

• Providing direction within the scrum team.
• Liaise with the engineering lead.
• Assist in decomposing user requests.
• Writing clean, secure code.
• Maintaining existing architectural components.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Full Stack Development

API integration

Clean code practices

Team leadership

Job description

Overview

Posted Friday 19 September 2025 at 00:00

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most. And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Full Stack Software Lead

National Security Business
Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.

Work on leading edge technology solutions in the following disciplines: AI & Data Science, Cyber, Cloud, Big Data, Software Development, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering.

Role

As a Full Stack Software Lead, you live and breathe leading technical teams from the front; ensuring best practice and delivery whilst gaining exposure to an increasingly interesting customer base. Your knowledge will be deep, you will use it to define novel technical approaches to mission critical projects that keep the country safe.

This isn’t sat in middle management delivering performance reviews, appraisals or sitting through disciplinary meetings; it’s an opportunity to challenge yourself technically at the forefront of innovation whilst mentoring the next generation.

Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.

You will be responsible

• Providing direction within the scrum team
• Liaise with the engineering lead
• Be able to help the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories.
• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
• Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse
• Translate logical designs into physical designs
• Produce detailed designs
• Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns
• Integrating API / UI components with existing data stores and APIs
• Maintain and develop existing architectural components including Data Ingest, Data Stores and REST APIs
• Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions
• Assist the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact
• Collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
• Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user

Built on over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Where you’ll work

You’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified – you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5-minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

There is an expectation that a significant proportion of your time will be spent working on customer sites in the London area.

Clearance

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years.

The Next Step

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.