MCS Group has an *EXCLUSIVE* opportunity for a Software Engineer Team Lead with a High-Growth Tech Scale-Up in Belfast. This role is ideal for a hands-on Lead engineer who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments, and who enjoys leading by example, solving complex technical challenges, and helping others raise their game. This Software Engineer Team Lead will join a scaling tech company, building best in class products across web, mobile, and desktop. As part of this period of growth, they're looking for a Software Engineer Team Lead who can balance being hands-on in the code with guiding a talented, ambitious team. This client is looking for a pragmatic, autonomous engineer who's comfortable taking ownership, driving delivery, and helping shape the way the team works as they grow. This is for someone who is ready to hit the ground running, an established engineer with a proven track record of team leadership. The Role 70-80% of your time will be spent hands-on in code and delivering high-quality features. You will lead by example in clean, scalable development while guiding teammates through technical decisions and best practices. You will also be providing day-to-day technical leadership - from setting standards and reviewing code to driving architecture. Coaching and mentoring engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and technical problem-solving. Working with product and design teams to shape roadmaps and turn vision into reality. Driving continuous improvement in our engineering culture, workflows, and delivery practices. The Person Proven experience leading and delivering complex features in a high-performing engineering team is essential. Our client works with: PHP 8.2 / Symfony 7, REST, API Platform, NodeJS, Python, Rust, TypeScript, Angular 19 and AWS. Solid hands-on experience with this stack would be ideal, or the willingness and ability to cross-train into this stack - Polyglot Developers and the Language-Agnostic are very welcome! A solid understanding of cloud-based architectures and distributed systems is required. You will bring demonstrable experience mentoring engineers and raising team standards through coaching, pairing, and code reviews. A level of pragmatism is required, and a balance between short-term delivery and long-term scalability. You will have confidence working in fast-moving Agile teams where priorities evolve quickly. And vitally, a real passion for clean, maintainable code and continuous improvement. Salary : £80k - £90k Location : Belfast City Centre (Hybrid) To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Jill Johnston, Head of IT Contracts, at MCS Group Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current jobs If you have a disability which means you require assistance at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us directly to discuss. MCS Group is committed to providing equality of opportunity to all. Not all agencies are the same MCS Group are passionate about providing a first-class service to all our customers and have an independent review rating of 4.9 stars on Google. Skills: Lead Software Engineer software team lead software engineering manager Lead Engineer Software development manager