Lead-Ready Senior .NET Engineer (Hybrid, Oxford)

develop; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in Oxford

Strong benefits package

Flexible, relaxed working culture (Tue

A purpose-led business with a strong

Job summary

develop is partnering with a well-established ecommerce business to hire a Senior .NET Engineer stepping into a Lead role. The role formalises technical leadership within a small, high-trust engineering team.

You will balance hands-on development with leadership, shaping architectural decisions and guiding code reviews across UK and Ukraine teams while migrating legacy systems to AWS. Hybrid in Oxford with strong benefits and a purpose-led culture.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial .NET / C# experience (around 6+ years, though track record matters more than years)
• Experience with AWS and building/maintaining microservices
• Strong understanding of Docker, containers and modern CI/CD workflows
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proven record of code reviews and mentoring, with leadership experience (formal or informal)

Responsibilities

• Roughly 60% hands-on development and 40% technical leadership (not people-management)
• Stay close to backend development and architecture
• Set and maintain coding standards and engineering best practices
• Lead code reviews across UK and Ukraine-based teams
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers
• Contribute to architectural decisions and lead proofs-of-concept
• Support migration and modernization of legacy systems on AWS
• Improve delivery speed, consistency and team performance

Skills

NET/C#

AWS

Microservices

Docker

CI/CD

SQL/NoSQL

Code reviews & mentoring

Leadership (informal)

Job description

develop is partnering with a well-established ecommerce business to hire a Senior .NET Engineer stepping into a Lead role. The role formalises technical leadership within a small, high-trust engineering team.

You will balance hands-on development with leadership, shaping architectural decisions and guiding code reviews across UK and Ukraine teams while migrating legacy systems to AWS. Hybrid in Oxford with strong benefits and a purpose-led culture.