X3 Hands On Software Engineering Managers/Tech leads - Data & Performance - REMOTE

X3 Hands On Software Engineering Managers/Tech leads – C#/.NET/AZURE - Data & Performance

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a strong focus on data architecture, application performance, and platform scalability.

You’ll lead a small senior engineering team, combining technical delivery with people leadership (around 75% technical / 25% line management ).

Your focus will be on enabling the platform to scale intelligently — supporting reporting, APIs, AI/LLM usage, and real-time customer insight .

🔧 What You’ll Do

🌳 Lead and support a newly forming team focused on data architecture and application optimisation

🌳 Drive structural change within a large, established codebase to support scale

🌳 Influence architecture, design, and technology decisions across the platform

🌳 Partner closely with Product, Engineering Managers, and SRE leadership

🌳 Translate strategic scaling goals into clear, deliverable roadmap initiatives

🌳 Contribute to engineering-wide OKRs and technical direction

🌳 Champion a culture of learning, collaboration, and thoughtful technical challenge

🌳 Remain technically hands-on, solving complex backend and data-driven problems

💻 Tech Stack

Strong backend experience is essential.

Core technologies include:

🌳 C# / .NET (Framework & .NET Core)

🌳 Azure SQL Server

🌳 Azure Cloud Platform

Bonus experience (nice to have):

🌳 Azure Cognitive Search

🌳 Data pipelines (Fabric or similar)

🌳 Search technologies (Lucene, Elastic, NoSQL, MSSQL)

🌳 MS SQL views and performance optimisation

🌟 About You

You don’t need the job title — but you do need the leadership mindset .

You’ll thrive here if you are:

🌳 A strong backend engineer with deep .NET and Azure experience

🌳 Comfortable leading technical change in mature, complex systems

🌳 Skilled at breaking down big, ambiguous problems into clear actions

🌳 Emotionally intelligent and collaborative across teams

🌳 Confident challenging decisions — kindly and constructively

🌳 Motivated by learning, improvement, and meaningful impact

🌳 An excellent communicator who helps align people and priorities

🎁 What You’ll Get

🌳 £67,000–£85k

🌳 £1,000+ annual learning & development budget

🌳 33 days holiday (rising to 40)

🌳 4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years

🌳 Private medical, dental & vision cover

🌳 Income protection & death-in-service

🌳 Matched 5% pension

🌳 20 hours paid volunteering time

🌳 Regular team socials & All-Hands events

🌳 A genuinely kind, ambitious, inclusive engineering culture

🌍 Working Model

🌳 Remote role – Scotland

🌳 Typically 2–3 days per month onsite , with flexibility

🌳 Flexible working around a 37.5-hour week

🌳 No rigid mandates — collaboration, trust, and outcomes matter