C# Software Engineer / Team Lead

Client Server; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Critical Illness Cover

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead in Bracknell, with hybrid WFH options. You will guide a squad in architecture, development, and production operations while remaining hands-on, delivering complex solutions and owning design decisions.

Strong AWS, CI/CD, and AI tooling experience are essential for driving modern practices. You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps with Product Managers, and help grow the team’s capabilities.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a software engineering team
• Strong backend development with C# .Net (other OO languages considered)
• System design experience, distributed systems & microservices
• Frontend experience with Vue.js, React or modern Angular
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Production experience with AWS (SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, Lambda)
• Experience owning CI/CD & release processes (GitHub Actions)
• Hands-on with AI agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
• Collaborative, pragmatic with strong communication to engineers and stakeholders
• Payments/FX or regulated industry background beneficial

Responsibilities

• Lead Squad across architecture, development, delivery and production operations while remaining hands-on
• Own system architecture, API design, technical decisions and code quality
• Mentor engineers with 1-2-1s and feedback; drive continuous improvement
• Champion AI adoption and modern techniques across the SDLC
• Collaborate with Product Managers on roadmaps and priorities
• Lead from the front with technical ownership and delivery leadership

Skills

Leadership

C# .Net

System design

Frontend frameworks

SQL

AWS

CI/CD

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

AWS services

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 £85k + bonus
• 23 days holiday, rising to 28 + your birthday off
• Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover