C# Software Engineer / Team Lead

Client Server; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Critical Illness Cover

23 days holiday

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead in Bracknell with hybrid WFH flexibility. Lead a squad, own architecture, API design and production operations while staying hands-on. You will mentor engineers and drive improvements with modern tooling and AI-enabled workflows.

The role focuses on distributed systems, microservices, and frontend experience with Vue.js/React/Angular, plus SQL and AWS expertise. Ideal for a senior engineer eager to lead and grow the team.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong backend development with C#/.NET or similar OO language.
• Extensive system design experience, microservices and distributed systems.
• Frontend exposure with Vue.js, React or modern Angular.
• Solid SQL skills and relational databases knowledge.
• Production AWS experience including SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, Lambda.
• Ownership of CI/CD and release processes (GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on with AI tools for code and workflow improvements.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder communication.
• Experience in payments/FX or regulated industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead your squad across architecture, development, delivery and production ops.
• Write production code and tackle technically complex problems.
• Own system design, API design, technical decisions and code quality.
• Partner with Product Managers on roadmaps and priorities.
• Mentor engineers, conduct 1-2-1s and drive continuous improvement.
• Promote AI-adoption and modern coding tools within the lifecycle.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend development

System design

Frontend frameworks

SQL databases

AWS stack

CI/CD

AI tooling

Communication

Payments domain

Tools

Vue.js (or React/Angular)

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

GitHub Actions

Claude/Cursor/Copilot

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

C# Software Engineer / Team Lead Bracknell, Berkshire, England