Tech Lead

Overview At Chambers and Partners, we’re transforming the future of legal intelligence through technology and we’re looking for a Tech Lead who thrives on leadership and innovation. In this pivotal role, you’ll guide a team of talented engineers to design, build, and deliver high-quality solutions across our platforms and products. You’ll set the technical vision, champion best practices, and ensure our engineering standards are second to none. As a trusted mentor and technical authority, you’ll inspire collaboration, foster growth, and empower your team to achieve exceptional results, driving both performance and innovation across our technology landscape. Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Leading a team of developers to effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain.
• Coordinate engineering resources ensuring adherence to standards and effective delivery. Provide mentorship and guidance where required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team
• Contribute to the team’s ability to make and deliver on their commitments
• Innovate and experiment with technology to deliver real business benefits.
• Regularly launch products and services based on your work and be an integral part of making these a success.
• Guide, influence and challenge the technology team and stakeholders to understand the benefits, pros and cons of various technical options.
• Assist with the recruitment of the engineering team.
• Guide, instruct, motivate and manage assigned staff on projects.
• Lead an innovative thinking process and encourage it in others.
• Plan and undertake technical work on projects.
• Lead the development of technical specifications and architecture
• Write clean and testable code using .NET programming languages
• Test and debug various .NET applications
• Review and refactor code
• Deploy fully functional applications
• Document development and operational procedures
• Working within the agile framework at Chambers

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrable experience in Solid C# backend development.
• Proven track record of leading development projects and teams.
• Substantial experience with modern front-end technologies – HTML5, CSS3, Sass
• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as Angular 17+
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer working with Azure solutions
• Proven experience with SOA and microservice architecture
• Experienced designing scalable software using recognised enterprise patterns
• Strong knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong knowledge of data-tier tech in the following areas:

• Relational
• NoSQL (KV, Doc, Graph)
• Search (e.g. Elasticsearch, Azure Search or Lucene)

• Thorough understanding of and practical experience with SOLID principles

• Developed Architecture in agile/iterative environments with experience of methodologies such as SCRUM, RUP, Lean and DSDM.
• TDD/BDD experience and understanding of formal testing and delivery methods

• Strong at problem solving and able to design solutions, options and recommendations that meet a range of sometimes conflicting requirements.
• Able to implement key architectural outcomes, such as reusability, performance, separation of concerns, quality and integrity.

Person Specification

A passionate software engineer with a history of driving his or her own technical and professional development.

Worked in the media, publishing, research or a similar consumer focused industry. (Highly Desirable)

An expert, with specific skills and knowledge relating to at least two of the following business domains:

Web technologies, including content management

Identity and Access control, Subscription mgmt. and payment platformsData applications, workflows and landscapes