Staff Software Engineer NEW

Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Staff Engineer/Circa £85,000/Remote first

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll provide leadership across the value stream, driving technical strategy, guiding architectural decisions and influencing engineering outcomes across multiple teams. You’ll act as a trusted technical authority, working closely with Principal Engineers, Architects, Product and Delivery leaders to align engineering delivery with broader business and technology objectives.

You’ll balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical contribution, leading solution design, validating architectural approaches, tackling complex technical challenges and supporting teams through key delivery initiatives.

Technical Environment

React, NestJS, Cloud Platforms (GCP/Azure), Micro Frontends, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Security Best Practices and Modern Engineering Practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering squads, driving consistency and engineering excellence.
• Influence technical strategy, architecture and technology roadmaps.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Delivery and Capability functions.
• Lead the design of scalable, secure and cloud-native solutions.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges and major initiatives.
• Drive best practices across software development, CI/CD, testing, automation and platform reliability.
• Identify risks, challenge existing approaches and improve engineering processes across the wider platform.
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise technical capability across the organisation.
• Build alignment across teams, influencing decisions without direct authority.

About You

We’re looking for someone who is more than just a strong engineer. You’ll be a recognised technical leader with the ability to influence, challenge and drive change across a complex technology landscape.

You will bring:

• Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or Senior Technical Lead within a complex environment.
• A proven track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or squads.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence engineers, architects and business stakeholders alike.
• The ability to operate comfortably at both strategic and hands-on levels.
• Deep expertise in React and modern web application development.
• Experience driving technical decision-making, navigating ambiguity and delivering outcomes through influence rather than authority.
• A passion for mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to identify problems, create solutions and drive them through to completion.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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