Lead Software Engineer – (Frontend, Backend, Full Stack)

Company: Accenture
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this Lead Software Engineer role, you will drive engineering excellence within Accenture’s Software & Platform Engineering team, balancing hands-on delivery with team leadership. You will work on digital product initiatives for diverse clients, often spanning multiple domains and technology stacks. The role emphasizes delivering high-value outcomes with scalable, secure, and performant solutions. You’ll collaborate across client teams and internal communities, shaping technical conversations and mentoring engineers.

Pay / Benefits

  • 25 days’ vacation per year
  • private medical insurance
  • 3 extra days leave for charitable work
  • extensive benefits package
  • mobility to spend time onsite with clients

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a software engineering team to deliver high-quality digital products
  • Contribute hands-on technical expertise while guiding others to implement effective solutions
  • Collaborate with clients to understand needs and translate them into scalable architecture
  • Maintain focus on value, simplicity, and performance in delivery
  • Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities to share learning and shape tech direction

Key requirements

  • Several years of experience with Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte
  • Cloud-native experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi)
  • Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
  • Strong focus on accessibility, security, performance, and caching
  • Demonstrated leadership and ability to grow team members’ careers
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • communication
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Python

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Posted: October 23rd, 2026