Lead C# Developer .Net - FinTech

Client Server; Reigate; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Up to £100k salary

Bonus

Pension (up to 10%)

Health Care and Life Assurance

Training and career development

25 days holiday

Social events

Job summary

Client Server in Reigate is seeking a Lead C# Developer to head three Agile teams, owning features of a flagship desktop insurance platform handling high-scale workloads. You will architect and implement new capabilities while ensuring security, performance, and maintainability.

The role offers hybrid working, competitive salary up to £100k, and strong career development within a Fintech context.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in C# .Net Core backend development for large, scalable systems.
• Experience leading or owning features within Agile teams.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and security.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field.

Responsibilities

• Lead three Agile teams delivering the flagship desktop insurance platform.
• Architect, design and implement new features with reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with Product Owner and other teams on technical decisions.
• Champion clean, reusable code and modern Microsoft practices.

Skills

C# .Net Core

Backend development

Leadership

Agile teams

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

CI/CD

IaC

Azure

Microservices

Job description

Lead C# Developer / Engineer (C# .Net Desktop Application) Reigate / WFH to £100k

Do you have expertise with C# desktop development, working on complex scalable systems?

You could be progressing your career, in a senior, hands-on leadership role working on complex and technically challenging systems with continual learning opportunities a global Fintech.

What's in it for you:

• Up to £100k salary plus bonus (c20%)
• Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home)
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off)
• Pension (up to 10% contribution)
• Health Care and Life Assurance
• Training and career development
• Social events and a range of other perks

Your role:

As a Lead C# Developer you'll manage three Agile teams comprising around ten experienced software engineers, responsible for the flagship desktop insurance platform that handles 4 billion requests per month.

You'll play a key role in architecting, designing and developing new features and enhancements whilst ensuring high levels of security, reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.

Collaborate with the Product Owner and with other development teams, you'll input into design and technical choices and provide technical ownership an Agile environment that encourages close collaboration and continual improvement.

Location / WFH:

There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days work from home.

About you:

• You have expertise with C# .Net Core backend software development, having worked on large, scalable systems with complexity
• You have strong technical leadership experience (taking ownership of features, not managing people)
• You are collaborative and pragmatic yet able to push back and influence senior engineers
• You're an advocate of creating, clean, reusable and maintainable code and have a good knowledge of modern Microsoft software engineering best practices
• You have a good knowledge of event driven architecture
• You have a thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Design Patters, Algorithms
• You have a good understanding of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Oops
• You have an appreciation of Azure, SaaS, PaaS, microservices
• You're likely to be degree educated in a relevant STEM discipline e.g. Computer Science with a good grasp of mathematics