Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Location: Northampton

Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 DOE

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

Visa Sponsorship: Not available

We’re looking for a capable and hands-on Lead or Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of core systems, lead development efforts, and help shape how technology supports the business. This isn’t a detached management role, it’s for someone who still enjoys getting into the code, solving engineering problems, and helping others level up.

You’ll be joining a small in-house team working on a wide range of software and infrastructure projects from building APIs and integrating systems, to modernising legacy platforms and managing cloud deployments.

• Leading technical delivery on internal systems and backend services
• Designing, building and maintaining APIs, message queues, and cloud-hosted infrastructure
• Working across a modern Microsoft-based stack with a mix of legacy and greenfield
• Collaborating with product, data, and operational teams to scope and deliver tools that actually solve business problems
• Improving security, deployment processes, and performance across environments
• Mentoring junior devs and helping steer architectural decisions
• Taking real ownership of how software gets delivered and supported

• C# and .NET (legacy and modern)
• Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL Server, Postgres
• Git for source control
• Azure and AWS
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (some UI work, but not a full frontend role)
• Bootstrap and SOLR (bonus if you’ve used them)

• Strong experience with C#/.NET in a commercial setting
• Confident building and integrating APIs and backend services
• Familiar with message queues, caching tools, and cloud-hosted environments
• Practical understanding of infrastructure, deployments, and application security
• Someone who can work independently and lead by example, while collaborating with others
• Comfortable balancing legacy maintenance with modernisation projects
• Bonus points for experience with SOLR, Bootstrap, or hosting migrations

• £65,000 to £75,000 salary, depending on experience
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Christmas shutdown
• Pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme

This is a role for someone who wants responsibility, freedom to make decisions, and the satisfaction of building systems that actually matter to a growing business. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.