Lead Developer
Posted 7 hours 35 minutes ago by djr
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
Lancashire, Manchester, United Kingdom, M21 0
Job Description
Lead Developer - Platform Transformation
Location: Manchester (Hybrid - up to 2 days per week in the office)
Salary: Up to £85,000 + 10- 20% Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
Type: Full-time, Permanent
We're working with a long-standing client on an exciting opportunity for a Lead Developer to join them as they undertake a large-scale modernisation of a critical business platform. This is a high-impact role, offering the chance to shape a newly-formed agile team and play a key part in a transformation that is central to the company's wider digital evolution.
Our client is a well-established and respected organisation operating across the UK and Europe. The systems in scope support complex, high-volume operational processes, and are used daily by a wide network of internal and external users.
The Role This is a hands-on leadership position, ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams while remaining technically involved. You'll be leading the design and delivery of cloud-native services, moving from a Legacy .NET architecture towards a modern, event-driven microservices platform hosted in AWS.
You'll work closely with architecture, product, UX and engineering leadership to ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and fit for long-term business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Manchester (Hybrid - up to 2 days per week in the office)
Salary: Up to £85,000 + 10- 20% Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
Type: Full-time, Permanent
We're working with a long-standing client on an exciting opportunity for a Lead Developer to join them as they undertake a large-scale modernisation of a critical business platform. This is a high-impact role, offering the chance to shape a newly-formed agile team and play a key part in a transformation that is central to the company's wider digital evolution.
Our client is a well-established and respected organisation operating across the UK and Europe. The systems in scope support complex, high-volume operational processes, and are used daily by a wide network of internal and external users.
The Role This is a hands-on leadership position, ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams while remaining technically involved. You'll be leading the design and delivery of cloud-native services, moving from a Legacy .NET architecture towards a modern, event-driven microservices platform hosted in AWS.
You'll work closely with architecture, product, UX and engineering leadership to ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and fit for long-term business needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a cross-functional agile squad, including developers and QA engineers
- Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure Back End services
- Contribute to strategic technical decisions around architecture and platform direction
- Embed engineering best practices across code quality, testing, deployment and observability
- Mentor and support the growth of team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning
- Backend: .NET 8, Python, JavaScript
- Frontend: React
- Cloud: AWS - including EKS, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, DocumentDB
- Infrastructure: Docker, Linux, Terraform
- Eventing/Messaging: Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise
- Strong hands-on engineering background with experience leading agile teams
- In-depth experience of modern Back End development, particularly with .NET and AWS
- Solid grasp of microservices and event-driven architecture
- Able to influence architectural direction and champion engineering best practice
- Passionate about building great teams and delivering high-quality software