Lead Software Engineer

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place.

Smiths Detection is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Purpose:
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across teams, solving complex problems with innovative solutions. Ensure adoption of Agile and DevOps practices while embedding security, scalability, and performance. Hands‑on proficiency in Angular (10+), Java, Spring Boot, and modern front‑end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, UI frameworks) ensures delivery of robust, scalable applications. Mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and deliver high‑quality systems aligned with business goals.

**As per company policy, this role requires presence in the office 4 days per week.

Duties:**

• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple development teams within the Platform & Application development organization.
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
• Propose architectural design in alignment with business requirements and able to justify technically the design considerations between the different available technologies.
• Assess, review, test and implement various architecture and design patterns and work with the delivery teams to ensure alignment to the architecture.
• Have oversight into architecture, working with your technical leads to ensure the systems and solutions you develop are flexible, loosely coupled and deliver performance that is appropriate for business needs.
• Ensure an efficient software methodology is in place, aligned to agile / lean principles, learning, and iterating frequently, highly collaborative, and regularly improved.
• Pick up a software component and contribute to hands-on development.
• Aligning to the DevOps principles and tool sets being established with high degrees of automation throughout the development process. Continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous operational monitoring are baseline goals.
• Ensure that security, reliability scalability and performance are embedded into the team skills, development process and architecture.
• Engage across the organization with business partners to gain buy-in on prioritization, with agreement on the key performance metrics which will be impacted.
• Measure and monitor the solutions you develop, regularly reviewing operational metrics to validate the effectiveness of your product in meeting customer needs.
• Excellent knowledge of modern platforms and tools, using the correct product where appropriate, especially open source and open standards
• Communicate through email, presentations, informal meetings right across the organization (including senior management and executive team) to share learning, insights and plans, gathering feedback and influencing in the process.
• Role model self-driven skill development within the team, promoting learning events and facilitating individual needs.

Qualifications:

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience (8+ years) in software development.

Technical Expertise:

• Must be proficient in front end technologies like Angular(10+), Java, Spring Boot
• Must have knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern UI frameworks/libraries
• Must have expertise in API design, gRPC, RESTful services, and development of scalable web-based applications.
• Experience with web components, micro front end architecture, responsive UI development.
• Practical experience in Python and/or Golang development, microservices-based application design, doma…