Lead Developer at Trinity College London in London, England, GB

Contract: Permanent, full-time Location: London (hybrid-working) Closing Date: 31 May 2026

About the role

The Lead Developer is part of a small innovation team responsible for bringing in-house a world-leading, cutting-edge AI-driven music and language teaching/analytics product. This highly skilled role focuses on reviewing, improving, and productionising our current pilot codebase while driving a roadmap of new, exciting features in partnership with our AI specialist, DevOps, and Data colleagues. The innovation team is moving to an AI-first model for development which you will initiate and lead. Reporting to the Head of Product Engineering, you will help guide and uplift our overseas development teams working on separate core products - ensuring consistent technical standards, design principles, and development processes across the wider engineering function.

About you

• Hands-on experience developing production software using AI-assisted development tools.
• Expert hands-on experience with ReactJS, Next.js, and strong UI development.
• Strong UI focus including Tailwind (very strong UI capability essential).
• Full-stack development experience, including both NoSQL (DynamoDB) and SQL databases.
• Experience designing scalable, production-grade software architectures.
• Familiarity with Auth0 and Ant Design components (advantageous).
• Experience of DevOps (advantageous)
• Experience of data modelling and data products (advantageous)
• Strong self-direction and the ability to drive enterprise-level decisions across design, development, and deployment.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work effectively with local and overseas teams.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with deep technical challenges.
• Technical leadership & influence able to guide technical direction, mentor others, and gain buy-in from local and overseas teams.
• High autonomy & ownership comfortable setting direction, making decisions, and driving initiatives without needing close oversight.
• Strong problem-solving mindset able to untangle complex technical issues in an evolving codebase and propose practical, scalable solutions.
• Clear, confident communication able to explain design decisions, negotiate priorities, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.

Our commitment

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse.

Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

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