ION
Senior Product Engineer (.NET/C#/Claude Code)
Job Description
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:- Several years of professional software development experience
- Comfortable independently delivering production software
- Experience with C# and .NET, or strong experience in another modern backend ecosystem
- Experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript
- Experience with Next.js or similar modern frontend frameworks
- Experience with modern web application development
- Experience with relational databases and data modelling
- Experience with APIs and integrations
- Experience testing and debugging production applications
- Experience with Git and collaborative software development
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and application deployment
- Experience reviewing code and making architectural decisions
- Design, build and ship financial technology products
- Work across the development lifecycle from understanding the problem through to getting software into production
- Explore existing systems and codebases to understand product problems
- Turn product requirements into implementation plans
- Use AI to accelerate implementation, review output, test it and ship it responsibly
- Write, refactor and review code
- Generate tests and investigate bugs
- Research unfamiliar technologies and produce documentation
- Automate repetitive engineering work
- Take ownership of problems and contribute to better software design and architecture
- AI
- Backend
- C#
- Cloud
- Frontend
- Git
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Web
- ASP.NET
- Azure
- Blazor
- Claude Code
- Copilot
- Cursor
- GitHub
- LESS
- Machine Learning
- Sage
- Security
More:
We are ION, the UKs leading provider of financial infrastructure in the education sector. Our mission is to enable education providers to achieve financial sustainability through technology, innovation and data-driven insights. We help CFOs and finance teams in education work smarter and faster using modern cloud technology, and we are the UKs No. 1 cloud accounting technology provider for education and Sages No. 1 education partner. Our development team builds the technology behind our existing products as well as the next generation of software we believe the sector needs. We use modern AI development tools across our engineering workflow and encourage experimentation with new ways of building software. This role is a hybrid position based in our Great Park office, with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home, and includes benefits such as a company share option scheme, 25 days annual leave, birthday off, flexible working hours, pension, free onsite parking, casual dress, sick pay and modern AI development tooling.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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£55,000
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 27% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks