Lead Full Stack Engineer
OpenSourced Ltd Careers · Bonnyrigg, Scotland ·
Lead Full Stack Engineer| Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Permanent | £65,000 - £75,000 per annum A GovTech scale-up delivering a live licensing platform for the Scottish public sector is hiring a Lead Full Stack Engineer to take technical ownership across their Laravel, InertiaJS and NextJS stack.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role - you'll be writing code, making architecture calls, and setting the standard for a small, senior engineering team, while reporting directly into the CTO. The Role You'll take ownership across the full stack: Laravel migrations and Eloquent models, InertiaJS admin interfaces, a NextJS citizen-facing portal, and an embeddable public register.
You'll work from spec through to PR, security review, UAT and government release sign-off - and you'll be the technical reference point the rest of the team looks to. This is not a role hidden behind tickets. You'll be expected to make judgement calls, ask the right questions early, and hold the line on correctness and accessibility as much as delivery speed.
Key Responsibilities Own technical delivery of licensing workflows end-to-end, from architecture through to production Lead integration work with government services (OAuth2/OIDC, PKCE-based identity verification, notification and payment platforms, Companies House, DVLA, address lookup APIs) Set and maintain engineering standards across a strongly-typed Laravel codebase (high type coverage, static analysis, refactoring discipline) Guide the team's approach to accessible React UI built against a government design system Lead serverless cloud deployment and operational decision-making Drive security design reviews, threat modelling and SAST/DAST/SCA remediation Own the technical approach to onboarding new verticals on a config-driven platform Shape and build AI-assisted features (form validation, document/eligibility checks, triage tooling) Mentor engineers, review code and PRs, and act as a technical escalation point Skills & Experience Required 5+ years' commercial full stack development experience, backend and frontend Track record of technical leadership - architecture decisions, mentoring, driving engineering standards PHP 8.3+ (constructor p...