Lead Software Developer

Overview

As Lead Software Developer in Edinburgh, you’ll guide a high-performing engineering team within the Issuer Services unit to build a unified, market-leading digital platform. You’ll mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with business stakeholders to deliver robust, high-quality web applications. The role combines hands-on technical work with people leadership in a fast-growing, collaborative environment that values continuous learning.

You’ll help shape a new cross-entity business line and contribute to a customer-centric digital experience.

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health and wellbeing rewards
• Employee share purchase with company contribution
• Recognition awards
• Team get-togethers
• Career development opportunities

• Build and nurture a skilled, motivated software engineering group
• Ensure close, collaborative engagement between the team and the business
• Coordinate coaching, mentoring, and professional development within the team
• Promote learning opportunities, including industry updates and formal mentoring
• Drive maturation of Software/Solution Engineering as a valued discipline in the team
• Share learnings through conferences and internal knowledge sharing
• Remain hands-on with technical work while guiding the team
• Collaborate with product managers, delivery leads, test teams and support functions
• Understand and apply best practices from across Computershare Engineering to projects

• Hands-on full stack engineer with React, C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework and SQL
• Experience leading the engineering of web applications; mobile development experience is a plus
• Strong track record collaborating with product managers, delivery leads, test teams and support functions
• Ability to understand the business domains of the products worked on
• Experience working effectively with remote teams
• Coaching, mentoring and day-to-day support to engineers in the team
• ambition to deliver high-quality, robust solutions and promote industry best practices

• collaboration
• mentoring
• communication
• React
• C#
• ASP.NET Core