LHH
Lead Software Engineer
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of our next-generation Copyright Data Management (CDM) platform. You'll provide technical leadership for a strategically important programme, working closely with engineering and product teams across our UK and US offices to deliver scalable, reliable software.
What you will do
- Own the technical delivery of the CDM initiative, working closely with the Director of Software Engineering and other engineering leaders.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering and stakeholders across the UK and US to define priorities and execution plans.
- Remain hands-on by designing, implementing and reviewing production code for key platform components.
- Identify technical risks and drive pragmatic solutions.
- Guide architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions and pairing.
- Promote the effective use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
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Essential skills
- Strong commercial experience developing production systems in Go.
- Experience designing and building distributed systems using technologies such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
- Strong experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS, including EKS, RDS, EC2, CloudWatch, and Kinesis.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerised deployments.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability and modern software delivery practices.
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Desirable skills
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kinesis, Kafka or similar).
- Experience leading technical projects.
- Previous mentoring or people management experience.
- Experience modernising legacy platforms.
- Experience collaborating with international engineering teams.
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