Youngs Employment Services

Youngs Employment Services

Covent Garden, South East

Senior Software Developer

Full-Time£65,000 - 75,000 per yearقبل 3 أيامUnited Kingdom
IT

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.
Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Technologies:
  • 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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About Youngs Employment Services

Youngs Employment Services

Youngs Employment Services

Covent Garden

IT

Skills & Technologies

C#GoReactASP.NETAzureGitCI/CDGitHub ActionsRESTAILLMDevOps

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