Lead Developer

Lead Developer – .NET – £70,000 – £75,000 Basic + 10% bonus – Manchester City Centre, Hybrid

There are 2 things you don\’t see before you join a business as a Software Engineer: culture and the codebase.

Well… let me put you at ease.

I have placed 7 Devs here personally, from Mid, Senior to Lead, and they all say it is the best place they have worked (cringe/cliché but true). Also, the average tenure for their team of 30 Devs is about 4-5 years.

These Devs all came from places in Manchester that are considered to have \”great devs\”, so the codebase must be somewhat decent. I am not saying it is perfect, because what codebase is?

Everywhere has a different definition for what a Lead Engineer/Technical Lead is.

Their definition (in simple terms):

• 30% – Architecture
• 30% – Mentoring a team of 5 developers alongside your Engineering Manager
• 40% – Hands-on coding

All Lead Developers at this place get a considerable amount of time to code and have consistent exposure to architecture.

A lot of the work you will be doing is working on the greenfield project they are about to start, as well as breaking down a massive monolith into microservices.

Tech you will be working with on day one is: .NET 8, AWS, SQL with Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC with Terraform.

• Ranging from £70,000 – £75,000 Basic
• 10% bonus
• 6% pension matched (12% total)
• Hybrid Manchester (2 days a week in the office)
• Flexi working (you can start between 7am – 10am and finish accordingly – 37.5 hour working week)
• Training budget
• State-of-the-art equipment