Software Team Lead

Software Team Lead

Edinburgh | £65,000 - £75,000 | Permanent

Published: 24.02.25 Ref: BBBH50506_1740420024

Edinburgh-based Software House that develop SaaS products for the Healthcare Industry with a variety of modern technologies are looking for a skilled Software Team Lead to join one of their Agile teams (hybrid working) - Opportunity to learn Elixir!

The organisation are well-known and have a very strong technical environment and reputation - everyone lives and breathes modern technology here. They develop large-scale SaaS products designed to improve efficiency and accountability within the healthcare industry, and they have very quickly become a household name and a market leader within their field.

They have multiple development squads based out of Edinburgh, with each looking after one or two different products. They have several market leading products live now that are widely used by millions. This role would involve joining an established squad - they work on products that aim to provide their customers more insight into their data. This team work with Elixir, Azure, Microservices and TypeScript. However, Elixir experience isn't needed for this role - they're open to Engineers that have worked with other similar-ish languages (F#, Scala, GoLang, Python, Ruby etc).

In this role you'll be working very closely with the previous Lead that has recently stepped up, so there will be someone on hand for a really thorough handover. You'll be the direct line manager for a small Agile Development team (circa 3-6) made up Software and Automation Engineers.

You'd be responsible for managing, leading and developing the Engineers in your team - assisting them day to day, training, coaching and mentoring, 1-1's, coming up with development plans and so much more. However, you'll also spend about 50% of your time doing hands on development work - so you can keep your technical skills sharp and up to date. Which also includes being involved in technical / architectural decisions for the project.

They place a really strong importance on doing software development correctly here (from SOLID principles, Design Patterns, Restful API's, Unit-Testing, Test-Driven Development), part of your role will involve ensuring your team are following these practices.

You'll ideally have experience with most of the following;

** Previous Team Lead / Manager experience within a software setting

** Experience with one of the following; Elixir, Scala, F#, GoLang, Python, Ruby etc

** Cloud Services (ideally Azure)

** Working with Databases (ideally SQL Server)

The following is highly desirable;

** Microservices

** DevOps tooling

Their offices are based in central Edinburgh where they support hybrid working, you'll be expected onsite about twice a week so are looking for Engineers that are already local to Edinburgh. They offer very flexible hours though, so you can have a lot of flexibility around start and finish times.

Salary for this role is roughly £65k to £75k (could be scope for more). On top of this, they also offer a strong package of benefits. Which includes; 33 days holiday, pension, private medical and dental cover, long-term sickness leave, critical illness cover, life insurance and much more.

If this opportunity sounds of interest and you match most of the skills, please do apply or drop Doug at Cathcart Technology a message via Linkedin to set up a chat.

Skills
Software Team Lead Software Manager Senior Software Engineer Edinburgh Hybrid
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