C# Software Engineer / Team Lead

Client Server; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Critical Illness Cover

Healthcare

23 days holiday

Job summary

Client Server Limited is seeking a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead in Bracknell with strong leadership experience. You will mentor a squad, own architecture and API design, and drive delivery for an international payments platform while writing production code.

The role supports hybrid work with in-office twice weekly in Bracknell and remote work most of the time. Ideal candidates have senior engineering and distributed systems expertise, plusFrontend in Vue/React/Angular and AWS experience.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership within a software engineering team
• Backend development with C# .Net or other OO languages
• System design experience, distributed systems and microservices
• Frontend experience with modern frameworks (Vue.js, React, Angular)
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Production experience with AWS services (SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, Lambda)
• Experience owning CI/CD and release processes (GitHub Actions)
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) and AI adoption
• Collaborative and pragmatic with clear communication to engineers and business stakeholders
• Background in payments, FX or other regulated industry would help

Responsibilities

• Lead 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
• Mentor engineers, conduct 1-2-1s and drive continuous improvement
• Champion AI and agentic coding tools across the software lifecycle
• Lead from the front with technical ownership, development and team growth

Skills

Team leadership

C# .NET

System design (distributed systems)

Frontend development (Vue.js/React/Ang

SQL databases

AWS (SQS/DynamoDB/S3/ECS/Lambda)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Agentic AI tools (Claude/Cursor/Copil

Communication skills

Payments / regulated industry

Job description

C# Software Engineer / Team Lead Bracknell / WFH to £95k

Are you a skilled C# Software Engineer with strong team leadership experience?

You could be joining a global financial services company as they rebuild the international payments platform, working within the Corporate Payments division.

As a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead you'll lead your Squad across architecture, development, delivery and production operations whilst remaining hands‑on, writing production code and tackling the most technically complex problems. You'll own system architecture, API design, technical decisions, design reviews and code quality and partner with Product Managers on roadmaps, delivery plans and priorities.

Providing technical leadership, mentoring, 1-2-1s and feedback you'll help to develop the engineers within the team, ensuring continuous improvement and setting standards for how the team builds, tests and ships. You'll champion AI and agentic coding tools across the software development lifecycle, driving process improvements and modern techniques.

This is ideal for a senior engineer who wants to lead from the front - combining technical ownership, hands‑on development and genuine responsibility for the growth of the team.

Location / WFH

You can work from home most of the time, joining colleagues in the Bracknell office twice a week.

About you

• You have strong experience providing technical / team leadership within a software engineering team
• You have strong backend development skills with C# .Net (would also consider other OO languages)
• You have strong system design experience, particularly distributed systems and microservices
• You have frontend experience with Vue.js, React or modern Angular
• You have a good knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• You have production experience with AWS, ideally including SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS and Lambda
• You have experience owning CI/CD and release processes, such as GitHub Actions
• You have hands‑on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar agentic tools, with a clear view on effective AI adoption
• You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to both engineering and business stakeholders
• A background in payments, FX or another regulated industry would be of benefit

What's in it for you

• Salary to £95k + bonus
• 23 days holiday, rising to 28 + your birthday off
• Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover
• Healthcare