Engineering Team Lead .Net Azure

Client Server Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Private health care

Travel insurance

Mental health support

Wellbeing allowance

Sabbatical after 4 years

Cycle to work

Office dogs

Free breakfast

Job summary

Client Server Limited in London is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to manage a high-performing team, balance hands-on work with team leadership, and deliver quarterly objectives using C#/.NET and Azure in a FinTech context. The role blends technical oversight with people management across hybrid work arrangements.

The candidate will mentor engineers, drive performance conversations, and collaborate with Product and QA to align delivery with business goals while maintaining customer focus.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex projects
• Strong leadership or mentoring skills with full management remit
• Extensive commercial experience with C#/.NET
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices and Azure cloud architecture
• Customer-focused with data-informed decision making
• Ability to coordinate cross-team dependencies with Product, QA and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex projects with a high performing team
• Mentor engineers and manage performance and development
• Oversee hiring and development, including performance reviews
• Maintain hands-on coding where appropriate while scaling the team
• Collaborate with Product, QA and other stakeholders to align priorities
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery, technical and people risks

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Delivery management

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Azure

C# / .NET

React

Job description

London, Greater London | £100k - £130k per year

Engineering Team Lead (.Net Azure React) London / WFH to £130k

Are you an experienced Engineering Leader with a track record of building high performance teams?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on Engineering Team Lead role at a hugely successful and scaling FinTech.

As an Engineering Team Lead you'll build and lead a high performing, healthy engineering team, taking ownership of quarterly delivery objectives, the development of your direct reports and the day-to-day culture that enables great engineering work.

You'll remain hands-on technically, but your biggest impact will come through your people and what the team delivers. You'll provide mentorship and constructive feedback, remove blockers, manage performance and advocate for your engineers through calibration and promotion processes. You'll build a team that can operate effectively and sustainably without relying on you to solve every problem.

Collaborating with Product, QA and Technical Leaders, you'll align the team around strategy, priorities and execution, while maintaining clear communication across remote, hybrid and in-person environments. You'll proactively identify and manage delivery, technical and people risks, ensuring challenges are addressed before they become blockers.

Customer focus will be central to your decision making, balancing customer outcomes with the needs of the team and wider business. This is a role for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong people leadership with credible technical skills and a genuine desire to help engineers and teams perform at their best.

Location / WFH:

There's a hybrid work from home policy with three days a week in the dog friendly, London office, where you can enjoy a diverse, sociable team atmosphere.

About you:

• You have experience of leading and delivering complex projects
• You have advanced leadership or mentoring skills with the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversationsand performance reviews
• You have extensive commercial experience with C# .Net (full stack development and React would also be useful but not essential)
• You have a strong understanding of modern software development practices and Azure cloud based scalable architecture
• You are customer focused, commercially aware and have a data informed approach to your decision making
• You can manage cross team dependencies and collaborate effectively with Product, QA and other stakeholders

What's in it for you:

As a Engineering Team Lead (.Net Azure React) you will earn a competitive package including:

• Salary to £130k
• £1k learning and development budget
• Private Health Care, Travel Insurance, Mental Health sessions, Wellbeing allowance
• Annual anniversary awards (including 4 week paid sabbatical in year 4)
• Perks such as cycle to work scheme, travel loan, office dogs and free breakfast