Tech Lead | Android / Embedded Devices | C# / .NET MAUI | Hands-On

• Own your team's delivery: sprint and quarterly commitments, with risk surfaced early and honestly
• Break complex features into team-sized work and run standups, planning, and retrospectives that produce real outcomes
• Manage capacity properly - explicit space for tech debt, not an invisible tax
• Lead people: regular 1-2-1s, honest development conversations, and hiring against a competency matrix
• Own operational health: your team's on-call rota, incidents in your domain owned to resolution
• Make sound day-to-day technical calls and capture the significant ones as ADRs
• Partner closely with Product on what your team is committing to and why
• Escalate cross-team risk and capacity conflicts before they become a miss

Eligibility:No sponsorship available. You must hold ILR or a British passport (role is subject to background checks) (Non-Negotiable), * Strong, production C# and .NET (7+) - not hobby-level

• .NET MAUI for Android (or strong Xamarin / native Android and ready to move to MAUI)
• Android platform development: activities/intents, lifecycle, background execution limits, device-owner APIs, MDM/EMM concepts
• Hands-on device / hardware integration (scanners, imagers, card readers, printers, serial, GPS)

Environment:

• Proven ownership of a delivery team's outcomes - sprint commitments, quality, operational health, not just your own tickets
• Real people leadership - substantive 1-2-1s, developmental feedback, hiring input
• On-call and incident ownership taken through to resolution, not handed off at first sign of difficulty
• Comfortable in a regulated, high-throughput product environment
• Honest, early risk communication as a habit, not an exception

Key Skills:

• Messaging and comms: MQTT (pub/sub), HTTP clients, offline/online state handling
• Logging and observability: log4net today, moving to OpenTelemetry / OTLP and structured logging
• Native interop: JNI / Android binding libraries, P/Invoke against native libraries
• Data and config: SQLite, XML-based configuration, key-value stores
• Sound day-to-day technical judgement without escalating every decision
• UK hours with high-level written and spoken English, * Payments exposure: EMV, contactless, and an appreciation of the compliance surface (PCI-DSS, key management)
• Matrix-organisation experience - adopting standards set by roles you don't manage
• Azure DevOps for backlog and pipeline tooling
• Regulated-environment experience (financial services, transport, healthcare)
• Rust and/or Python, or a genuine willingness to learn them
• Leading a team through organisational or structural change without stalling delivery

If you tick every box above, hold ILR or a British passport, and can start ASAP, we'd love to hear from you.