Development Team Lead

Socium Recruitment; Ringway; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Socium Recruitment Limited is seeking a Development Team Lead in Manchester to guide a pragmatic group of engineers delivering customer-facing software built on C#, .NET and Azure. The role is roughly 70% leadership and 30% hands-on, with hybrid working in Manchester.

You will coach through reviews, set delivery priorities with Product, and maintain high engineering standards (TDD, SOLID). You’ll stay close to code and contribute to complex changes, while exploring how AI can improve

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers.
• Strong C#/.NET, Azure and API experience.
• Background delivering customer-facing software.
• Confidence having difficult conversations with engineers or delivery teams.
• Enjoys engineering and leading as the main focus of the role.

Responsibilities

• Leading the team day to day, making priorities clear and removing blockers to delivery.
• Coaching engineers through code reviews, design discussions and feedback.
• Collaborating with Product to translate customer needs into technical delivery.
• Maintaining high engineering standards: TDD, SOLID, maintainable code and reliable testing.
• Staying hands-on with development and solving complex problems.
• Exploring how AI can improve development, testing and review with careful judgment.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

C#

DotNet

Azure

APIs

TDD

SOLID

Distributed

Tools

C#

.NET

Azure

APIs

Event-driven

Job description

Development Team Lead | Up to £90,000

Manchester | Hybrid

The customer sees the journey. You'll lead the engineers making it work.

This FinTech has put technology at the centre of how it does business. The next step needs a Development Team Lead who can get good work out of people, challenge technical decisions and keep customer-facing software moving forward.

Around 70% leadership, 30% hands-on. You'll have time to develop your engineers, work through delivery priorities and give the team clear direction. You'll also stay close enough to the code to contribute properly when a difficult change or design decision needs your experience.

The platform is built around C#, .NET and Azure, with APIs, event-driven services and distributed systems behind the customer experience. There's plenty to get involved in, from improving existing journeys to shaping how new features are built.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the team day to day, making priorities clear and dealing with the things slowing delivery down.
• Coaching engineers through code reviews, design discussions and regular feedback.
• Working with Product and the wider business to turn customer needs into sensible technical delivery.
• Keeping engineering standards high: TDD, SOLID principles, maintainable code and testing that gives the team confidence to release.
• Staying hands-on with development and helping the team work through complex problems.
• Exploring where AI can improve development, testing and review, with the judgement to check what it produces.

What we need from you:

• Experience leading software engineers, with examples of how you've helped people improve.
• Strong C#/.NET, Azure and API experience, including event-driven or distributed systems.
• A background delivering customer-facing software, where usability, performance and reliability matter.
• Confidence having the difficult conversations, whether that's feedback for an engineer or challenging an unrealistic delivery expectation.
• Someone who still enjoys engineering and wants leadership to be the bigger part of their job.

What you'll get:

• Up to £90,000, hybrid working in Manchester and ownership of a team whose work customers use every day. There's room to influence how the team builds, how it develops and what good engineering looks like across the business.