Lead Full Stack Developer
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Job description
We're partnering with a scaling SaaS enterprise undergoing a significant technology transformation and are looking to appoint a Lead Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping a core, revenue-critical platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys setting engineering direction, raising standards, and leading by example while still remaining close to the code.
The Opportunity You'll join a highly capable product-led engineering function working on enterprise-grade, cloud-native systems used at scale. The platform is actively evolving, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
As Lead Engineer, you'll act as the technical authority within the team - influencing architecture, guiding delivery, and mentoring engineers - while collaborating closely with Product, Architecture, and senior stakeholders.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the design and development of high-quality .NET solutions
- Owning technical decision-making across services, integrations, and APIs
- Driving engineering best practice: clean code, testability, CI/CD, and cloud standards
- Mentoring and developing engineers across mid and senior levels
- Working closely with Product to translate business requirements into scalable solutions
- Playing a key role in modernisation, platform evolution, and technical strategy
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience with C# / .NET in SaaS or enterprise environments
- Proven experience operating at Lead or Senior-Lead level
- Solid understanding of cloud-based architectures (Azure preferred)
- Experience building and supporting distributed, high-availability systems
- Comfortable balancing hands-on development with leadership and influence
- Passion for improving engineering culture and technical quality
Benefits & conditions
- Up to £80,000 base salary
- 20% annual bonus
- Hybrid working: 2 days per week onsite in Manchester
- Clear technical ownership and real influence over platform direction
- Long-term career progression within a growing SaaS business
- Supportive, engineering-led culture with modern tooling and practices
