Engineering Lead - Backend & API Integrations

Virgin Active & KAUAI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

The Peoples Pension 3% contributions

Complimentary Virgin Active membership

Job summary

Virgin Active is seeking an Engineering Lead - Integration to join the Digital & Technology Transformation Team. You will lead the backend, API and integration delivery, designing and developing C#/.NET solutions in Azure while guiding engineers and setting standards.

This permanent, full-time role requires hands-on leadership, collaboration with product and QA teams, and a focus on reliability, security and observability.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience with leadership responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET and Azure.
• Experience building backend services, RESTful APIs and integration solutions.
• Knowledge of API-led, event-driven and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience designing scalable solutions across internal and third-party systems.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of backend services, APIs and integrations.
• Own complex initiatives from design through deployment.
• Design and develop C# and .NET solutions within Azure.
• Set engineering standards and lead code/architecture reviews.
• Guide engineers through complex technical challenges.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, Data and frontend teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Improve system reliability, security, performance and observability.
• Lead incident resolution and reduce technical debt.
• Identify risks and delivery challenges, coordinating mitigations.

Skills

C# & .NET

Azure

Backend APIs

Technical leadership

CI/CD & DevOps

Stakeholder management

API integration patterns

Testing & observability

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Logic Apps

Functions

Event Grid

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Job description

Virgin Active is seeking an Engineering Lead - Integration to join the Digital & Technology Transformation Team. You will lead the backend, API and integration delivery, designing and developing C#/.NET solutions in Azure while guiding engineers and setting standards.

This permanent, full-time role requires hands-on leadership, collaboration with product and QA teams, and a focus on reliability, security and observability.