Lead Software Engineer

The King’s Digital UXDev/Learning Technology team collaborates to enhance our virtual learning environment for fully online education. In this role, you will provide strong, collaborative leadership to the Educational Technology Development (Dev) team, advising on the best technical approaches to meet our goals and working with the UX Manager to allocate development tasks effectively.

A core focus of the UXDev/Learning Technology team is supporting our in-house modular Design System for online programmes and courses in Moodle. We also develop and implement new technology enhancements to enable more engaging teaching, ensuring tools are integrated as seamlessly and sustainably as possible.

This role is vital to the team’s success, requiring a balance of advanced technical expertise with considerations for user experience, scalability, and accessibility. Beyond writing high-quality code and resolving tickets, you will uphold coding standards, maintain clear documentation, and contribute to improving our DevOps workflows.

While King’s Digital is committed to innovation, we are also closely connected to the wider University through shared systems and users. This role therefore demands strong communication and collaboration skills, enabling you to work effectively across teams and departments to help deliver the best possible online learning experience for our students.

This is a full-time post offered on an indefinite contract.

Please ensure you write your application referring in order to each of the Essential and Desirable criteria outlined under the ‘Skills and Experience’ sought for this role.

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information on what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Please ensure you write your supporting statement referring in order to each of the Essential and Desirable criteria outlined under the ‘Skills and Experience’ sought for this role.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

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