
Youngs Employment Services
Senior Software Developer
Job Description
Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong hands-on software development experience, ideally 6-10 years, with the majority in .NET/C#.
- Recent experience with modern .NET, ideally .NET 8 or later.
- Blazor experience.
- Strong Azure experience, including App Service or Container Apps, Azure SQL, API Management and Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Experience modernising legacy systems, ideally using strangler-fig or similar incremental migration approaches.
- Good understanding of REST API design, microservices and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Practical day-to-day use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or similar.
- Identity and authentication experience, including Entra ID/Azure AD, OAuth2 or OIDC.
- Comfortable working with SQL Server or Azure SQL data modelling, performance and migration activities.
- Clear communication skills and the confidence to work in a small permanent team where engineers take ownership from design through to delivery.
- Exposure to React or React Native, particularly where APIs support web or mobile products.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search or integrating LLM-based features into production products.
- Experience working in a scale-up, transformation programme or small permanent technology team.
- Design, build and support cloud-based services in .NET 10 across Azure API Management, Azure SQL and the wider Azure platform.
- Help modernise a business-critical booking platform using an incremental strangler-fig migration approach.
- Work on anti-corruption layers, two-way data synchronisation, staged cutovers, validation and zero-downtime release patterns.
- Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Develop secure services within the Entra ID identity plane for staff and customer authentication.
- Contribute to AI-enabled quotation and knowledge tools, including human-in-the-loop quote drafting and retrieval-augmented knowledge features.
- Collaborate closely with mobile, product and engineering colleagues where our APIs are consumed across different surfaces.
- Take part in architecture discussions, code reviews and mentoring of graduate developers.
- AI
- API
- Azure
- Blazor
- C#
- CI/CD
- Claude Code
- Cloud
- Copilot
- Cursor
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Support
- LLM
- Mobile
- REST
- React
- React Native
- SQL
- Web
- microservices
- ASP.NET
More:
We are recruiting for a Senior Software Developer to join a small, highly capable technology team delivering a major legacy-to-cloud transformation. We are moving our core booking platform to an Azure and modern .NET solution, while also building an AI-powered quotation and knowledge platform that will be central to how our organisation works. This is a hands-on senior engineering role, and you will be joining at a point where the architecture, delivery approach and product direction still matter. You will design and ship production services, contribute to a structured strangler-fig migration, and use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code as part of everyday engineering practice. The role is based in London and is hybrid, with 3 days per week in the office. Salary is c£65,000 - £75,000 plus bonus, with some flexibility.
last updated 37 week of 2026
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