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Lead Software Engineer

Reporting to Director of SWE and Quality Processes

Location:   Europe 

While Spain is the preferred location for this role, we embrace a flexible approach and welcome applications from talented professionals based in the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, subject to local employment requirements.

Publication Date:  19/08/2026

If you apply, please include your CV.

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Responsibilities

  • Provide technical oversight, leadership, and mentorship to development teams; ensure adherence to software engineering methodology, standards, and code quality practices.
  • Translate design specifications into clean, maintainable code; perform multi-role duties across system analysis, design, programming, testing, and technical support.
  • closely with Project Managers, Product Owners, Team Leads, Business Analysts, and Technical Support to deliver integrated solutions and resolve technical issues.
  • Champion code quality, perform/assist in unit test execution, and prepare thorough technical project documentation.
  • Participate in system migration planning and execution; provide on-site or off-site support for production systems.
  • Ensure all active programs, project updates, and technical issues are accurately reflected in status reports.

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Deep competence in Java coding best practices, design patterns, and REST APIs. Expertise in Spring Boot, JPA, XML, Swing, RMI, Hibernate, EJB, Angular, Ionic, IBM MQ, or Kafka is a plus.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL database management, including Oracle DBMS, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
  • Strong operational understanding of Scrum, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
  • Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities, accompanied by strong interpersonal skills and fluent English language communication (written and spoken).

 

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in Java development.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Lead Developer or Technical Lead role.
  • Experience utilizing tools such as SVN, Tortoise, Eclipse, Maven, Ant, Ansible, Gitlab, or Bamboo across Linux, Windows, and AWS environments.

 

The selected candidate may be subject to the provision of an up-to-date (not older than 3 months)  criminal record certificate.

Our culture and values

We believe happy employees create thriving work environments. With over 500 team members from 32 countries, speaking over 30 languages, CHAMP is a uniquely diverse and welcoming place to work. Our globally minded staff collaborates with clients and vendors worldwide from our offices in London, Zürich, Manila, Atlanta, Singapore, and our Headquarters in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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Security: the successful candidate will have to comply with CHAMP Security Requirements (including but not limited to CHAMP’s IT Security Policies, especially the ISMS Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, mandatory courses, confidentiality and data protection, use of company assets, and incident reporting).

  

CHAMP Cargosystems is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, ethnic background, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Please note that any personal data that you submit along with your application will be processed by CHAMP and may be processed by any of its global entities as necessary. These data will be treated in strict compliance with the applicable data protection legislation (i.e. the Law of 2 August 2002 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, as amended, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, - the GDPR -, which entered into force on 25 May 2018, as well as any other subsequent regulation).Please follow the link to the CHAMP Candidates Privacy Notice for further information.