Lead Developer

Lead Software Engineer Manchester | Hybrid (2 Days Per Week)Up to £85,000 + 20% Annual Bonus + Excellent BenefitsBuild software that powers a global SaaS platform. We're partnering with a highly successful international SaaS business undergoing a major engineering transformation. Following significant investment into cloud-native technology, platform modernisation and engineering capability, we're looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of highly scalable products used by enterprise customers across Europe.This is a genuine opportunity to join an engineering-first organisation where technical excellence is valued just as highly as delivery.You'll remain hands-on while leading a small, high-performing team of engineers, influencing architecture, mentoring developers and helping define engineering standards across multiple cloud-native products.If you're passionate about modern software engineering and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, this is the type of role that doesn't come around often.The Opportunity You'll work within one of the organisation's flagship product teams responsible for building highly available, cloud-native SaaS applications used at significant scale.Working alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers, you'll help deliver resilient distributed systems built around microservices, event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices.This is not a people-management role disguised as leadership.You'll still spend the majority of your time designing solutions, writing code, reviewing pull requests and helping solve challenging engineering problems whilst mentoring a team of talented developers.What You'll Be Doing Leading a small Agile engineering squad whilst remaining hands-onDesigning scalable cloud-native applications using modern .NETBuilding event-driven microservice architecturesCollaborating closely with Product, Architecture and Platform teamsDriving engineering best practice, clean code and quality standardsCoaching and mentoring Software EngineersContributing to architecture and technical directionReviewing code and promoting engineering excellenceSupporting CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practicesChampioning continuous improvement across the SDLCTechnology You'll work with a modern engineering stack including:C#.NET 8 / .NET 9AWSTerraformMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureREST APIsDynamoDB / SQLReact & TypeScriptGitHub ActionsDocker / ContainersCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeWe're Looking For You'll probably have experience with most of the following:Strong commercial experience developing enterprise applications in C#/.NETExperience leading or mentoring Software EngineersBuilding cloud-native applications within AWSDesigning scalable distributed systems and microservicesEvent-driven architecture (messaging, asynchronous systems)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)CI/CD and modern DevOps practicesRESTful APIsReact or modern frontend frameworksComfortable working within Agile product teamsPassion for engineering quality, scalability and continuous improvementWhy Join? This is an opportunity to join an engineering organisation where technology genuinely drives the business.You'll be joining during a significant period of investment, working on large-scale greenfield and platform-modernisation initiatives rather than simply maintaining legacy software.Engineers are encouraged to influence architecture, challenge technical decisions and introduce new ideas, with clear progression into Principal Engineering, Engineering Management or Architecture as the organisation continues to grow.Package Up to £85,000 basic salary20% annual performance bonusHybrid working (2 days per week in Manchester)Private healthcareEnhanced pensionExcellent holiday allowanceOngoing training and certificationsClear career progression within a growing engineering functionTPBN1_UKTJ