Avanti Recruitment
Senior .NET Developer - Blackpool
Job Description
Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements:- Excellent hands-on development experience with modern C# and .NET
- Meaningful commercial experience with WinForms
- Commercial test-driven development experience, using a test-first Red/Green/Refactor approach
- Strong automated testing experience
- Experience contributing to technical decisions and software design
- Experience owning and modernising existing applications
- Highly desirable: experience migrating WinForms applications to modern .NET
- Highly desirable: exposure to Clean Architecture
- Highly desirable: experience with API design and service-based architecture
- Highly desirable: React or JavaScript exposure
- Highly desirable: AI-assisted development or Python experience
- Take ownership of a business-critical WinForms platform that has been migrated to .NET 8
- Modernise an established desktop application using current .NET engineering practices
- Improve maintainability, automated testing and technical direction
- Support the delivery of new business functionality
- Contribute to software design, architecture and technical decisions
- Work closely with our CTO, Head of Engineering and the original software author
- Help shape the platforms future architecture as it evolves through APIs, cloud services and modern web technologies
- Remain highly hands-on with C#/.NET development
- Collaborate with the engineering team to influence technical direction and platform evolution
- Support CI/CD and testing practices for a WinForms application
- AI
- API
- C#
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CTO
- Support
- JavaScript
- Python
- React
- Web
- Windows
- ASP.NET
- .NET Framework
- Azure
- Frontend
- REST
- SQL
- TDD
More:
We are a growing tech-led software business investing heavily in our core engineering platform following a recent acquisition. We are based in Colnbrook near Heathrow Airport. This is a hands-on senior role focused on modernising a critical Windows desktop platform, with an initial 1-2 weeks onsite for onboarding and knowledge transfer followed by a mostly remote working pattern, with office visits expected every 1-2 months. You will join a collaborative engineering team where your ideas will have real impact, and you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of the platform. Benefits include a salary of up to £75,000, 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, NEST pension, Bupa Listening Ear and Westfield Rewards.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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Avanti Recruitment
Blackpool
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£75,000
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This salary is 7% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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