Lead Developer, Software Engineer

£57,515 to £80,400 per year, Base pay £57,515 plus an additional allowance up to £22,885

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

08/02/2026

Can you lead agile teams, coach developers, and shape better engineering practices that deliver excellent public services?

Do you thrive providing technical leadership, mentoring teams, and improving how software is built through continuous improvement?

Our Lead Developers provide technical leadership, leading our continual improvement cycle for software engineering.

Your time will be split between leading work in agile teams to build solutions & developing our capability, improving how we work through new tools and adapting ways of working & building our developer community.

If so, we’d love to hear from you We are looking for a Lead developer, with the drive and passion to join a talented, experienced delivery team in shaping the future of our delivery our digital and data services.

Our current tech stack is based around .Net and C#, hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

Find out more about what it's like working at DfT:
Department for Transport Central

• Department for Transport Careers Working as part of a talented team, at this role level, you will:
  Guide the ways in which the team works.

Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems.

Be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches, deciding when software should be written.

Contribute to the developer community.

Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring your team.

Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.

Provide governance, identify appropriate metrics to inform reporting and decision making.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need.

We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile.

Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only

• whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process.

This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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