
Acorn Insurance
Technical Lead
Job Description
Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience leading software delivery within a microservice-based environment
- Strong technical background in .NET and Azure
- Comfortable working across the stack, with deeper expertise in backend systems
- Experience mentoring and guiding developers in a collaborative, agile setup
- Product-focused mindset with an understanding of trade-offs between speed, scalability and user experience
- Excellent communicator who brings clarity and empathy to technical discussions
- Passion for clean, maintainable code and continuous improvement
- Curious and proactive, always looking for better ways to build, measure and deliver
- Lead a multidisciplinary squad to deliver high-quality, production-ready software
- Design and build scalable microservices in .NET and Azure
- Contribute to the evolution of our microservice architecture and integration patterns
- Collaborate with frontend developers working in React and Next.js to deliver seamless user experiences
- Partner with product managers, BAs and designers to translate customer needs into clear technical plans
- Work closely with QA and automation testers to ensure quality and reliability are built in from the start
- Stay hands-on with code while mentoring developers and promoting best practices
- Drive technical discussions, champion clean architecture and improve our engineering standards
- Contribute to wider engineering initiatives, including developer experience and shared tooling
- Azure
- Backend
- Cloud
- Frontend
- Support
- React
- microservices
- ASP.NET
- Architect
- C#
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Docker
- Git
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- Nginx
- Project Manager
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- SQL
- Sentry
- TypeScript
More:
We are hiring a Technical Lead based at our Liverpool City Centre HQ with a hybrid working pattern of three days in the office. This is a permanent, full-time role offering a salary of £70,000 to £85,000 per annum depending on experience, with 37.5 working hours per week Monday to Friday. You will join a talented cross-functional squad working on modern, cloud-native software built on Azure and microservice architecture. We offer real autonomy, a supportive and transparent culture, opportunities for professional development, conferences and innovation time, and the chance to grow into staff, principal or architecture-focused leadership roles. We also support a collaborative workplace and can provide adjustments during the recruitment process or once you join the team.
last updated 38 week of 2026
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