Job Specifications
Lead Software Engineer
Full Stack - Ruby on Rails, React
Up to £120k DOE
Fully Remote - must be UK based
A fast-growing sports tech company building high-performance, data-driven products for a rapidly expanding global audience is searching for a Lead Full Stack Engineer. This is a pivotal role for an experienced engineer who thrives on shaping architecture, driving technical direction, and still remaining hands-on in the codebase.
As a technical leader within a cross-functional Product Team, you’ll influence the long-term engineering strategy, guide architectural decisions, and ensure the platform scales reliably as our user base grows. You’ll act as a role model for engineering excellence - mentoring others, elevating standards, and collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Customer Success to build tools our customers truly value.
Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, GraphQL
What You’ll Be Leading & Doing
Drive architectural design, long-term technical vision, and scalable system patterns
Lead complex fullstack development across Rails and React/React Native
Own technical quality - setting engineering standards, reviewing code, and ensuring maintainability
Guide the team through key scaling challenges across performance, reliability, and modularity
Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of learning and high performance
Work closely with stakeholders and users to translate real-world needs into elegant, robust solutions
Influence and improve engineering practices, tooling, CI/CD, and operational excellence
Remain hands-on, contributing significant code while unblocking and supporting the team
What We’re Looking For
Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks at scale
Strong expertise with React and/or React Native
Experience designing scalable architectures, APIs, and distributed systems
GraphQL knowledge – highly beneficial
Excellent communication and leadership skills; able to influence without ego
Proven ability to guide teams, mentor others, and drive engineering quality
Someone proactive, independent, and comfortable making high-impact technical decisions
Thrives in a fast-paced, product-driven environment and enjoys working closely with customers
We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
About the Company
We’re an independent, service driven recruitment agency that sources high quality, talented individuals to fill permanent and contract roles across the Technology, Clean Technology & Cyber Security sectors.
Since we were established in March 2008 we’ve achieved outstanding success with clients and candidates throughout the UK, US and Europe. We’ve built up rewarding relationships with many of them that continue to this day.
Our success is based on four key attributes:
• our skills and expertise in the recruitment profess...
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