Parallax Agency Ltd
Leeds, Yorkshire
Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Reporting To: Tech Director Description We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to help shape the future of our most ambitious client projects. This is a senior, hands on role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic consultancy. You'll be working at the earliest stages of client engagements - helping uncover the real problems, defining the right approach, and proposing commercially viable, technically sound solutions without needing to escape for support. You'll represent Parallax with confidence, pitch ideas persuasively, and guide both clients and internal teams from initial scoping through to architecture, delivery and optimisation. Equally comfortable in the code and leading client workshops, you'll set the technical direction while working in squads to build products for our clients. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. You must be able to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards - or define new ones entirely. Working at a strategic level, you will influence project roadmaps, craft Statements of Work and contribute directly to winning new engagements. Key Responsibilities Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define and develop the long term software architecture strategy; establish and maintain best practice design patterns, coding standards and technical guidelines across multiple projects. Discovery & Requirements: Lead technical discovery workshops with senior stakeholders, unpicking complex requirements, mapping system dependencies and aligning solutions to business objectives. Hands On Development & Delivery: Balance strategic oversight with hands on coding-designing, building and deploying critical features; conducting code reviews; and ensuring high performance, security and scalability. DevOps & Operational Excellence: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing and monitoring to drive operational resilience and rapid iteration. Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Champion test driven development, continuous integration, automated testing frameworks and peer review processes to uphold code quality. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers, product managers and QA specialists to deliver quality outcomes Thought Leadership: Represent our Technology Practice internally and externally-presenting at client meetings, industry events and contributing to the broader engineering community on emerging trends and innovations. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Demonstrable experience delivering or building AI applications. Strong Next.js or equivalent Javascript framework, React and AWS experience. Balance leadership with hands on software development, working with teams to create and ship high quality solutions. Identify strategic opportunities and contribute to proposals, estimates and Statement of Work scoping. A deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns and system integration. Solid experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and automation tooling. Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery practices. Strong quality assurance mindset, including test driven development and peer code reviews. Ability to unpick and resolve complex technical problems, architecting scalable, maintainable solutions. Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting technical concepts and recommendations to senior stakeholders. Ability to establish and evolve technical standards, guidelines and reusable component libraries. High emotional intelligence and consultancy mindset for managing client relationships and expectations. You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. We welcome people from under represented backgrounds at Parallax. Similarly, if you don't tick all of the boxes please still apply! Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised
Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Reporting To: Tech Director Description We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead to help shape the future of our most ambitious client projects. This is a senior, hands on role that blends deep technical expertise with strategic consultancy. You'll be working at the earliest stages of client engagements - helping uncover the real problems, defining the right approach, and proposing commercially viable, technically sound solutions without needing to escape for support. You'll represent Parallax with confidence, pitch ideas persuasively, and guide both clients and internal teams from initial scoping through to architecture, delivery and optimisation. Equally comfortable in the code and leading client workshops, you'll set the technical direction while working in squads to build products for our clients. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. You must be able to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards - or define new ones entirely. Working at a strategic level, you will influence project roadmaps, craft Statements of Work and contribute directly to winning new engagements. Key Responsibilities Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define and develop the long term software architecture strategy; establish and maintain best practice design patterns, coding standards and technical guidelines across multiple projects. Discovery & Requirements: Lead technical discovery workshops with senior stakeholders, unpicking complex requirements, mapping system dependencies and aligning solutions to business objectives. Hands On Development & Delivery: Balance strategic oversight with hands on coding-designing, building and deploying critical features; conducting code reviews; and ensuring high performance, security and scalability. DevOps & Operational Excellence: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing and monitoring to drive operational resilience and rapid iteration. Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Champion test driven development, continuous integration, automated testing frameworks and peer review processes to uphold code quality. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers, product managers and QA specialists to deliver quality outcomes Thought Leadership: Represent our Technology Practice internally and externally-presenting at client meetings, industry events and contributing to the broader engineering community on emerging trends and innovations. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Demonstrable experience delivering or building AI applications. Strong Next.js or equivalent Javascript framework, React and AWS experience. Balance leadership with hands on software development, working with teams to create and ship high quality solutions. Identify strategic opportunities and contribute to proposals, estimates and Statement of Work scoping. A deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns and system integration. Solid experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and automation tooling. Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery practices. Strong quality assurance mindset, including test driven development and peer code reviews. Ability to unpick and resolve complex technical problems, architecting scalable, maintainable solutions. Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting technical concepts and recommendations to senior stakeholders. Ability to establish and evolve technical standards, guidelines and reusable component libraries. High emotional intelligence and consultancy mindset for managing client relationships and expectations. You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. We welcome people from under represented backgrounds at Parallax. Similarly, if you don't tick all of the boxes please still apply! Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised
Parallax Agency Ltd
Leeds, Yorkshire
Senior Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Compensation: £50,000 - £70,000 / month At Parallax, we celebrate the curious. The people who love getting stuck into tough challenges and building technology that genuinely moves the needle and demonstrates the art of the possible. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building great products to join our growing team. You'll spend most of your time writing code, solving complex technical challenges, and working collaboratively with UX designers, engineers and others across multiple projects - with some of your time focused on improving how we deploy, scale, and monitor our applications. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. We're innovators at heart, we work with technology that we're passionate and excited about and use it to produce software and products that our customers love. Key Responsibilities Work as part of a cross-functional squad to design, build and ship high-quality digital products for our clients Take ownership of complex technical challenges - unpicking problems and proposing well-structured, pragmatic solutions Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in languages and frameworks such as Node.js, TypeScript, and React. We also use other open-source languages and frameworks. Contribute to estimates and technical planning alongside your team and the Client Lead Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical people - from clients to internal stakeholders - to explain ideas, trade-offs, and recommendations Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure - primarily on AWS (ECS, ECR, Lambda, CloudFront, RDS, etc.) and Azure (you don't need to be an expert but being interested helps!) Promote strong engineering practices around code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and security and help instil a culture of quality and accountability in engineering. Collaborate closely with designers, product managers and QA to ensure solutions are user-focused, technically sound, and aligned with client needs. Skills & Experience What you need to have: A passion for technology and continuous learning Strong software engineering background with ideally 3+ years experience building and maintaining production systems Strong hands on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, especially Next.js, React and React Native, other languages like Python/C#/PHP, a bonus Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence - able to collaborate effectively and adapt your style when working with technical and non-technical people A collaborative mindset. You enjoy working closely with UX designers, delivery managers, product managers and other engineers Confident problem solver able to troubleshoot complex systems and guide others to effective technical solutions, while being able to balance quality with delivery Flexibility to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards Proficient with CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as GitHub Actions Passion for code quality, with a strong understanding of TDD, automated testing, and peer review processes Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery in cross functional teams Nice to haves: (don't worry if you don't have any of the following experiences, we'd still like to hear from you) Experience working on AI, IoT, or large scale web and mobile applications Curiosity about mentoring or progressing toward a Principal Tech Lead role Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform and AWS CDK) Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch etc.) You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised
Senior Software Engineer Department: Software Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Leeds - Hybrid Compensation: £50,000 - £70,000 / month At Parallax, we celebrate the curious. The people who love getting stuck into tough challenges and building technology that genuinely moves the needle and demonstrates the art of the possible. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building great products to join our growing team. You'll spend most of your time writing code, solving complex technical challenges, and working collaboratively with UX designers, engineers and others across multiple projects - with some of your time focused on improving how we deploy, scale, and monitor our applications. Our clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. We're innovators at heart, we work with technology that we're passionate and excited about and use it to produce software and products that our customers love. Key Responsibilities Work as part of a cross-functional squad to design, build and ship high-quality digital products for our clients Take ownership of complex technical challenges - unpicking problems and proposing well-structured, pragmatic solutions Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in languages and frameworks such as Node.js, TypeScript, and React. We also use other open-source languages and frameworks. Contribute to estimates and technical planning alongside your team and the Client Lead Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical people - from clients to internal stakeholders - to explain ideas, trade-offs, and recommendations Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure - primarily on AWS (ECS, ECR, Lambda, CloudFront, RDS, etc.) and Azure (you don't need to be an expert but being interested helps!) Promote strong engineering practices around code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and security and help instil a culture of quality and accountability in engineering. Collaborate closely with designers, product managers and QA to ensure solutions are user-focused, technically sound, and aligned with client needs. Skills & Experience What you need to have: A passion for technology and continuous learning Strong software engineering background with ideally 3+ years experience building and maintaining production systems Strong hands on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, especially Next.js, React and React Native, other languages like Python/C#/PHP, a bonus Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence - able to collaborate effectively and adapt your style when working with technical and non-technical people A collaborative mindset. You enjoy working closely with UX designers, delivery managers, product managers and other engineers Confident problem solver able to troubleshoot complex systems and guide others to effective technical solutions, while being able to balance quality with delivery Flexibility to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards Proficient with CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as GitHub Actions Passion for code quality, with a strong understanding of TDD, automated testing, and peer review processes Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery in cross functional teams Nice to haves: (don't worry if you don't have any of the following experiences, we'd still like to hear from you) Experience working on AI, IoT, or large scale web and mobile applications Curiosity about mentoring or progressing toward a Principal Tech Lead role Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform and AWS CDK) Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch etc.) You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams while inspiring and guiding your team. You are self motivated, highly organised and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes. You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes. Benefits Private medical healthcare (Bupa) 4% matched pension Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Flexible working Quarterly company Hack Days 1 professional development day per month City centre office 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days Team events Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP) Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary) 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised