C# Developer / Technical Lead .Net - FinTech

Client Server Limited; Reigate; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Enhanced parental leave

25 days holiday (+ birthday off)

Pension (up to 10% contribution)

Health care and life assurance

Training and career development

Social events and other perks

Job summary

Client Server Limited in Reigate is seeking a C# Developer / Technical Lead to own architecture and delivery of a flagship desktop insurance platform. You’ll guide three Agile teams, design features, ensure security, reliability and performance, and collaborate with Product Owners to shape roadmaps.

The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership in a hybrid WFH setup in Reigate, with office days and remote work.

Qualifications

• Proven C#/.NET Core backend experience on large-scale systems.
• Strong technical leadership (ownership of features).
• Collaborative, pragmatic and able to influence senior engineers.
• Advocate for clean, maintainable code and MS best practices.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture.
• CS fundamentals: OOP, data structures, design patterns, algorithms.
• Understanding of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Appreciation of Azure, SaaS, PaaS, microservices.
• Degree in a STEM discipline.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and develop new features and enhancements.
• Ensure security, reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.
• Collaborate with Product Owner and other teams; input design choices.
• Provide technical ownership in an Agile environment.
• Lead three Agile teams delivering the flagship desktop platform.
• Focus on scalable, complex systems with continual learning.

Skills

C#/.NET Core

Technical leadership

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

IaC

Azure

Microservices

OOP fundamentals

Design patterns

Algorithms

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Azure

Job description

C# Developer / Technical Lead (C# .Net Desktop Application) Reigate / WFH to £100k

Do you have expertise with C# desktop development, working on complex scalable systems? You could be progressing your career, in a senior, hands-on leadership role working on complex and technically challenging systems with continual learning opportunities a global Fintech.

What's in it for you:

• Up to £100k salary plus bonus (c20%)
• Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home)
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off)
• Pension (up to 10% contribution)
• Health Care and Life Assurance
• Training and career development
• Social events and a range of other perks

Your role:

As a C# Developer / Technical Lead you'll manage three Agile teams comprising around ten experienced software engineers, responsible for the flagship desktop insurance platform that handles 4 billion requests per month. You'll play a key role in architecting, designing and developing new features and enhancements whilst ensuring high levels of security, reliability, maintainability, usability and performance. Collaborate with the Product Owner and with other development teams, you'll input into design and technical choices and provide technical ownership an Agile environment that encourages close collaboration and continual improvement.

Location / WFH:

There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days work from home.

About you:

• You have expertise with C# .Net Core backend software development, having worked on large, scalable systems with complexity
• You have strong technical leadership experience (taking ownership of features, not managing people)
• You are collaborative and pragmatic yet able to push back and influence senior engineers
• You're an advocate of creating, clean, reusable and maintainable code and have a good knowledge of modern Microsoft software engineering best practices
• You have a good knowledge of event driven architecture
• You have a thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Design Patters, Algorithms
• You have a good understanding of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• You have an appreciation of Azure, SaaS, PaaS, microservices
• You're likely to be degree educated in a relevant STEM discipline e.g. Computer Science with a good grasp of mathematics