Lead Software Engineer

Company: eFinancialCareers
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Location: London
Job Description:

£75,000 – £82,000 GBP

Hybrid WORKING

Location: Central London, Greater London – United KingdomType: Permanent

With this role you’ll be joining a 180-strong engineering function sitting at the intersection of AI and one of the industries generative AI is set to transform most: services. The platform supports over 2,500 tax and legal professionals and thousands of clients, delivering everything from routine automated advice to complex, high-stakes decisions.

What you’ll bring

  • Hands-on experience designing, specifying and building software end to end
  • The ability to clearly articulate how generative AI can solve document management, workflow automation and knowledge management problems
  • A track record of leading and mentoring engineers
  • Strong experience in a modern object-oriented language (C# or Java)
  • Deep knowledge of software design patterns, clean code and clean architecture
  • Experience building REST APIs and working with messaging systems
  • Confidence defining data models and working with databases
  • Experience shipping user-facing web applications
  • A collaborative, Agile mindset and a passion for best practice

What you’ll be doing

  • Working in a lean Agile team using a scaled Scrum framework
  • Building back-end services in C#/ASP.NET Core, with front-end work in TypeScript/React, ASP.NET MVC or Blazor
  • Building cloud-first applications with strong unit test coverage, continuous delivery and 100% infrastructure-as-code
  • Containerising and deploying applications via Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Working with Entity Framework code-first data against Azure SQL or NoSQL databases
  • Designing resilient microservices integrated via a cloud message bus
  • Upholding secure coding and infrastructure standards
  • Levelling up your own skills and sharing knowledge across the team
  • Building reusable components other teams can build on

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Posted: September 22nd, 2026