Lead Software Engineer

Lead .NET Developer

Package: £70,000 to £80,000 + Bonus & Benefits

Egham, Surrey

Hybrid: Two days a week in office.

A client of ours needs a Lead .NET Developer to join an established software business with a mature product and a strong engineering culture.

This is a genuine lead role with real influence over architecture, code quality, and team direction, not a re-badged senior position.

The Role You'll work alongside the Head of Development, CTO, and other Dev Leads designing, building, and shipping features across a mature Azure-based platform. Alongside hands-on development, you'll lead on technical decisions, run code reviews, mentor the team, and own technical risk across the product. Expect to be the person the team looks to when something architectural needs a call.

Skills & Experience

• Strong .NET background - ASP.NET C#, .NET Core, Visual Studio.
• Azure cloud experience across scalability, security, and performance.
• Microservices and event-driven architecture.
• SQL databases, comfortable writing ad-hoc queries when needed.
• Web stack — MVC, Web APIs, REST, JSON/XML services.
• gRPC, Docker, and Azure Service Bus.
• Source control with Git and GitFlow, unit and integration testing as a default.
• Comfortable leading technical conversations and mentoring developers.

Why Apply?

If you're ready to step into a Lead role that actually leads, working on a product with real market presence and a team that takes engineering quality seriously, this is the role for you so apply today for immediate consideration.

Please note: sponsorship is not available at this time.