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# Technical Lead

- **Company:** Acorn Recruitment Ltd
- **Location:** Formby, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, MongoDB, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Redis, Standard Sql, Next.js, TypeScript, ReactJS, Grafana, Backend, Git, Build Management, Kubernetes, Sentry, Front End Software Development, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5890530971

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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

Technologies:

 * 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


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