Engineering Team Lead - C#/.Net

Flagstone Group LTD; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A competitive online savings platform in Camden Town seeks an Engineering Team Lead to steer high-performance teams. The role combines technical leadership in C#, mentoring engineers, and solving business challenges with technology. Ideal for an experienced leader with a strong background in Azure and API design. The company offers a supportive culture and numerous benefits including flexible working options, a personal development budget, and competitive bonuses.

Benefits

Competitive bonus scheme

Flexible benefits budget

Private health care

25 days holiday plus additional days

Matched pension contributions

Qualifications

• 10 years' experience in an engineering role with team leadership.
• Proven experience in C# and .Net technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an engineering team, focusing on performance development.
• Work in partnership with teams to solve business challenges with technology.
• Support the Product Manager in work scheduling and delivery.

Skills

Team leadership and management

C# development

Understanding of SOLID principles

Experience in RESTful API design

Azure cloud development

SQL skills

Test-Driven Development

Excellent communication skills

Problem solving ability

Job description

You're an Engineering Team Lead, ideally with 10 years' experience, who's excited to forge a new way to save. You're excited about producing and maintaining high quality systems to achieve business objectives through contributions to the development process, including system design/architecture and performance management of the team.

You work in partnership with relevant teams across an organisation to identify how technology can solve business challenges and will be capable of answering "how and why" technology is designed and delivered. As an Engineering Lead, you will coach and mentor other Engineers, helping them develop better solutions and understand system design with a focus on their career progression and personal development.

You will also be responsible for effective performance management and driving an environment of high performance. The Engineering Lead will also support the Product Manager in terms of understanding & scheduling of upcoming work including resourcing, and will be responsible for the day-to-day running and delivery of the squad's work stream.

We are a Microsoft shop, so our core language is C# and our platform is entirely in the cloud on Azure where we use a variety of PaaS type services including Web Apps, Functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos, Azure Service Bus, AppInsights, APIM etc.

Requirements

• Proven team leadership and line management experience, including coaching, mentoring, performance development, and supporting team wellbeing
• Excellent commercial development experience with C# / .Net / .Net Core.
• A good understanding of SOLID principles, Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience of RESTful API design
• Experience of Azure cloud development, and a cloud-first approach
• SQL skills
• A good foundation in Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies, demonstrating proficiency in writing and maintaining test cases using one or more of the following libraries, or similar: NUnit, Microsoft.TestFramework and Selenium
• Emotional intelligence. You actively listen and provide thoughtful solutions
• Proactivity and the ability to demonstrate initiative positively and collaboratively
• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stakeholder management
• Problem solving ability

About Flagstone

Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business - where smart people do their best work.

Our unique culture is our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage. A feel for our culture: To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent - it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth. That's why we're building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued.

Benefits

• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
• Flexible benefits budget - a pot to fund meaningful benefits for you, whether it's hormone or fertility testing, cancer screening, neuro-diversity coaching or something that matters for you.
• A range of salary sacrifice options to help you make tax efficient savings on electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods.
• Around the World scheme - 3 months work from anywhere scheme
• Mental wellbeing support - Access therapy and mental health sessions through Spill
• Learning and development - £1,000 personal development budget to help you grow in your role.
• Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits AXA has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and medical history disregarded
• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental and optical expenses
• Life insurance and Income Protection- four times your annual salary for peace of mind
• Matched pension contributions up to 5%
• 25 days holiday - plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days
• Enhanced Parental Leave - enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.