Lead Developer

Lead Developer

Full-Time 63000 - 77000 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
Resourcing Group

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead a high-performing team to build scalable cloud-native applications and solve complex engineering problems.
  • Company: Join a leading international SaaS business focused on engineering excellence and innovation.
  • Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, 20% annual bonus, and excellent benefits in a hybrid work environment.
  • Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for continuous improvement and career growth.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact on cutting-edge technology while mentoring talented developers.
  • Qualifications: Experience in software engineering, cloud-native technologies, and team collaboration.

The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.

Lead Software Engineer Manchester | Hybrid (2 Days Per Week) Up to £85,000 + 20% Annual Bonus + Excellent Benefits Build software that powers a global Saa S platform.

We're partnering with a highly successful international Saa S 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 Saa S 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-on Designing scalable cloud-native applications using modern .

NET Building event-driven microservice architectures Collaborating closely with Product, Architecture and Platform teams Driving engineering best practice, clean code and quality standards Coaching and mentoring Software Engineers Contributing to architecture and technical direction Reviewing code and promoting engineering excellence Supporting CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and Dev Ops practices Championing continuous improvement across the SDLC Technology You'll work with a modern engineering stack including: C# .

NET 9 AWS Terraform Microservices Event-Driven Architecture REST APIs Dynamo DB / SQL React

Lead Developer employer: Resourcing Group

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Resourcing Group

Contact Details:

Resourcing Group Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Lead Developer

C#
.NET 8
.NET 9
AWS
Terraform
Microservices
Event-Driven Architecture