Hybrid Tech Lead — .NET, Azure & Microservices

Onyx-Conseil; Wallasey; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a cross-functional squad as it designs, builds and delivers modern software on a microservice architecture hosted in Azure. You will stay hands-on while mentoring others and setting technical direction to align with our broader platform strategy.

Based in Liverpool with hybrid working (3 days in the office), you’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and BA teams to ship reliable, scalable features that delight customers and support our

Qualifications

• Experience leading software delivery within a microservice-based environment.
• Strong technical background in .NET and Azure.
• Comfortable working across the stack, with deeper backend expertise.
• Experience mentoring and guiding developers in a collaborative, agile setup.
• Product-focused mindset with trade-offs between speed, scalability and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary squad to deliver high-quality, production-ready software.
• Design and build scalable microservices in .NET and Azure.
• Contribute to the evolution of microservice architecture and integration patterns.
• Collaborate with frontend developers working in React and Next.js to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Partner with product managers, BAs and designers to translate customer needs into technical plans.
• Work closely with QA and automation testers to ensure quality from the start.
• Stay hands-on with code while mentoring developers and promoting best practices.
• Drive technical discussions and improve engineering standards.
• Contribute to wider engineering initiatives including developer experience and tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Team collaboration

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Acorn is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a cross-functional squad as it designs, builds and delivers modern software on a microservice architecture hosted in Azure. You will stay hands-on while mentoring others and setting technical direction to align with our broader platform strategy.

Based in Liverpool with hybrid working (3 days in the office), you’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and BA teams to ship reliable, scalable features that delight customers and support our