Lead Developer

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience developing enterprise applications in C#/.NET
• Experience leading or mentoring Software Engineers
• Experience building cloud-native applications within AWS
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems and microservices
• Experience with event-driven architecture, including messaging and asynchronous systems
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred
• Experience with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks
• Comfortable working within Agile product teams
• Passion for engineering quality, scalability and continuous improvement

Responsibilities:

• Lead a small Agile engineering squad while remaining hands-on
• Design scalable cloud-native applications using modern .NET
• Build event-driven microservice architectures
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture and Platform teams
• Drive engineering best practice, clean code and quality standards
• Coach and mentor Software Engineers
• Contribute to architecture and technical direction
• Review code and promote engineering excellence
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices
• Champion continuous improvement across the SDLC

Technologies:

• AWS
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Frontend
• Support
• React
• Terraform
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• Docker
• GitHub
• REST
• SQL
• TypeScript

More:

We are partnering with a highly successful international SaaS business undergoing a major engineering transformation. Following significant investment into cloud-native technology, platform modernisation and engineering capability, we are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of highly scalable products used by enterprise customers across Europe. You will join one of our flagship product teams, working on highly available, cloud-native SaaS applications at significant scale alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role with hybrid working in Manchester, two days per week in the office, and a package of up to £85,000 basic salary plus a 20% annual performance bonus. We also offer private healthcare, an enhanced pension, an excellent holiday allowance, ongoing training and certifications, and clear career progression within a growing engineering function.

last updated 34 week of 2026