Lead Backend Developer

Waracle are looking for a Lead Backend Developer to join our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious, and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design, and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role, offering the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life, with 2 days a week spent connecting with colleagues in our London office or on client site.

Shape the Future of Digital Innovation

As a Lead Backend Developer, you will provide technical leadership across squads, defining architecture, guiding engineering best practices, and ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with client and business goals. You will translate business priorities into technical roadmaps, manage delivery expectations around scope, budget, and timelines, and create a psychologically safe, high-performing environment where teams can thrive.

If you are a collaborative leader who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, enjoys mentoring and empowering teams, and is passionate about delivering high-quality solutions that create real business value, we would love to welcome you to our team!

Duties of This Role

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, your role will cover:

• Strategic Planning & Roadmaps: Translate business objectives into effective technical strategies, ensuring engineering roadmaps align with long-term client goals and deliver sustainable value.

• Stakeholder Management & Collaboration: Facilitate workshops to understand requirements, align technical solutions with business needs, and manage expectations around scope, budget, priorities, and delivery outcomes.

• Team Leadership & Empowerment: Lead squads and projects with accountability for successful delivery, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment where teams can thrive.

• Operational Excellence & Delivery Focus: Own technical delivery outcomes by making informed decisions and pragmatic trade-offs across scope, quality, and timelines to maintain delivery momentum.

• Culture & Knowledge Sharing: Define and evolve Waracle’s technical standards while contributing to our shared body of knowledge through lessons learned, thought leadership, and good practices.