Lead Forensics
Principal Software Engineer
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer / Lead Engineer - Full Stack
UK Remote, moving to Hybrid: Manchester area by 2027 (estimate)
Also available as Hybrid in the Portsmouth area.
Remote first options depending on fit.
Summary:
Lead Forensics is a leading UK based SAAS company with products in the B2B sales and marketing space. We’re seeking a Staff level full stack Software Engineer / Software Developer to join our expanding teams that build our customer facing products.
You’ll be technically leading work; from requirements capture and initial design, through to full implementation, iterating quickly on our modern tech stack (NodeJS microservices, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and SingleStore) and deploying code daily to production (in AWS) following the DevSecOps methodology as we respond rapidly to customer requirements.
Current and production grade TypeScript fluency (approx. 5+ years experience) is necessary for this particular position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with stakeholders on initial solution design, scoping and system design.
- Spiking areas of uncertainty in designs and building POCs as required.
- Work with our Product Teams to help break down work into deliverable Epics and Stories.
- Turning user stories into code running in production as a high performing individual contributor lead developer and embedded architect in an Agentic AI environment.
- Ensuring the quality, maintainability and operability of code.
- Supporting the product that the team has built as it runs in production and resolving issues.
- Responsible for the design, architecture and implementation decisions for the product.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What you will bring:
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including competencies to work directly with customers.
- Experience developing with clean code, SOLID principals and design patterns.
- Experience across all areas of full stack development, ideally developing large scale SaaS platforms.
- Experience of working in a mature CI/CD environment, continuously deploying stories every day, following the DevSecOps methodology.
- A strong general aptitude for programming and problem solving. You’ll need to pick up new tools and techniques quickly and use them to solve problems.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Our ideal candidate will also be able to show:
- A forward-thinking approach to accelerating production quality software development using AI (professional or personal).
- Experience with automated testing and quality assurance.
- An understanding of how to build systems that perform well at scale.
- Enthusiasm for building secure systems and implementing security best practices.
- Enthusiasm for driving high standards in software development and working with like-minded people towards achieving ever higher levels of efficiency and performance.
- A technical/computer science degree or equivalent professional experience.
Company Benefits
- An entrepreneurial environment built on ownership, accountability, autonomy and trust.
- Employment with a fast-growing UK SaaS company; initially remote working.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Be part of a fantastic company culture; we all display our Company DNA’s, foster a “One Team” and ‘Growth’ mentality.
- Give back to the wider community with volunteer days, fundraisers and charity.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills