C# Software Engineer / Team Lead

Overview

As a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead, you will steer a squad in building and operating a modern payments platform within a global financial services group. You combine hands-on coding with architectural ownership, mentoring, and shaping delivery priorities with Product Managers. You’ll drive architecture decisions, code quality, and the adoption of AI-enabled development tools to improve delivery speed and reliability. This is a growth-focused, hands-on leadership role that blends technical ownership with people development.

Pay / Benefits

• 23 days holiday
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Critical Illness Cover
• Healthcare

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad across architecture, development, delivery and production operations while remaining hands-on
• Own system architecture, API design, technical decisions, design reviews and code quality
• Partner with Product Managers on roadmaps, delivery plans and priorities
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, 1-2-1s and feedback to develop engineers
• Champion AI and agentic coding tools across the SDLC and drive process improvements
• Lead from the front with technical ownership, hands-on development and responsibility for team growth

Key requirements

• Strong experience providing technical and team leadership within a software engineering team
• Strong backend development skills with C#/.Net (other OO languages considered)
• Strong system design experience, especially distributed systems and microservices
• Frontend experience with Vue.js, React or modern Angular
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Production experience with AWS (SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, Lambda)
• Experience owning CI/CD and release processes (GitHub Actions)
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar AI tools
• Collaborative and pragmatic with good communication skills for technical and business stakeholders
• Background in payments, FX or regulated industry beneficial

• collaborative
• pragmatic
• clear communication
• C#/.NET
• distributed systems
• microservices

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