Lead Software Engineer Job at ITV (London)

Lead Software Engineer

ITV

Location:
United Kingdom , London

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

85000.00 - 105000.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

We’re looking for a Lead Engineer to help bring to life, through technology, the Commercial teams’ ambitions for the future of advertising. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team of engineers while remaining close to the technical detail. You’ll be accountable for engineering practices, delivery quality and outcomes across your team’s services and applications — from high-level design through to production operations.

Job Responsibility:

Team Leadership & Engineering Accountability: Line manage and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, providing technical leadership, coaching and skills development, setting objectives and performance standards, supporting recruitment, and inspiring a high-performing, inclusive and motivated team culture, while remaining accountable for the quality and output of your team’s services and applications.
Product Design & Delivery: Partner with Product Managers, Designers and QA to scope and refine requirements, translate business needs into high and low-level designs, and lead the development, delivery and ongoing maintenance of scalable features, infrastructure and services that deliver measurable value.
Full Stack Engineering Ownership: Oversee the design and implementation of user-centric front-end experiences using TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web technologies, alongside back-end cloud infrastructure, APIs, databases and microservices that support reliable, secure and scalable products.
Quality, Performance & Reliability: Define quality standards and non-functional requirements, implement automated testing and observability practices, and proactively monitor, optimise and troubleshoot applications, data pipelines and workflows to ensure high performance, resilience and operational stability.
Support, Operations & Security: Collaborate with QA, DevOps and support teams to resolve incidents, address root causes and maintain production stability, while adhering to architecture governance, DevOps and DevSecOps best practices and ensuring compliance with ITV data privacy and security standards.
Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Design, QA and Delivery to provide engineering guidance, document technical solutions and clearly communicate complex concepts to both technical and business audiences.
Continuous Improvement & Ways of Working: Champion Agile and engineering best practices including peer reviews, CI/CD, TDD, technical debt management and planning, while identifying opportunities for automation, process improvement and innovation, and actively contributing to ITV guilds and the wider engineering community.

Requirements:

At least 2+ years experience leading a small team of engineers
Solid experience (typically 4–6+ years) in a senior software engineering role
Strong programming and technology skills in one or more of the following TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Terraform, JSON
Experience building user-centric front-end, back-end, or data and ML-driven operational applications
Knowledge of AWS services and creating a cloud environment via IaC for a microservice architecture (e.g., S3, RDS, AWS infra, Lambda, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Step Functions etc)
Working in an agile environment in green and brownfield environments
Confident approaching development with TDD principles
Embracing code quality and automation with CI/CD tooling
Worked with source control systems such as Github
Knowledge of serverless monitoring and debugging tools.
Ability to write production-grade code including automated testing
Experience in deploying code via CI/CD platforms (e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins)
Familiarity with data modelling, database systems, and SQL optimization techniques.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting skills.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Nice to have:

Knowledge of broadcast, OTT or advertising technology
Experience working closely with Product, QA and Delivery functions
Passion for building strong engineering culture
Understanding of data governance, privacy and security principles
DevOps/FinOps or platform engineering experience

What we offer:

Flexible working with a range of options
Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
Annual bonus opportunity
Competitive pension contribution
Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 17, 2026

Expiration:
March 02, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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