Lead Software Engineer

Person Centred Software LTD; Guildford; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Camascope India, part of the Person Centred Software group, is seeking a founding senior engineer to own from concept to production. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish standards as the team scales from six upward.

You will design and deliver web applications using C# and .NET, across backend and frontend, while promoting quality, testing, and robust architectures. This role reports to the Engineering Manager and offers growth in a brand-new team.

Qualifications

• This role requires strong commercial experience with C# and .NET.
• Experience building modern web applications across backend and frontend.
• Focus on clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Experience in Agile product development environments.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and scalable design.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern development practices.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor others.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain applications using C# and .NET across backend/frontend.
• Lead delivery of complex features and technical projects.
• Set technical direction and establish coding standards for a founding team.
• Collaborate with Product and QA to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write robust automated tests and promote best practices.
• Review code, mentor engineers, and raise the technical bar as the team grows.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and drive scalability, performance, security, maintainability.
• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted technologies to boost productivity.
• Own solutions through full software development lifecycle from design to production.

Skills

C# & .NET

Web applications

Agile

Software architecture

CI/CD

Mentoring

GitHub Copilot

Job description

About us

Camascope India is part of Person Centred Software (PCS) Group, whose software is used by thousands of care professionals every day to help care teams improve outcomes, stay compliant, and spend more time focusing on people. This new India-based team will work closely with our UK Product Engineering teams to design, build and operate a core PCS product.

The opportunity

This is a founding role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building high-quality software, and taking ownership from concept through to production — and who wants to help shape a brand-new team from day one. You'll be the senior-most individual contributor on the team, working closely with the Engineering Manager to set technical direction, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers as the team grows.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining applications using C# and .NET, across backend and frontend technologies
• Leading delivery of complex features and technical projects
• Setting a strong technical example as a founding engineer — establishing coding standards, review practices and testing culture for the new team
• Collaborating with Product and QA teams to deliver high-quality, well-tested solutions
• Writing robust automated tests and promoting engineering best practice across the team
• Reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and helping raise the technical bar as the team scales from 6 upward
• Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions, in partnership with the Engineering Manager
• Driving improvements in scalability, performance, security and maintainability
• Using modern development tooling and AI-assisted technologies (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to enhance productivity
• Taking ownership of solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design to production support

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET
• Experience building modern web applications across backend and frontend technologies
• A passion for clean, maintainable and well-tested code
• Experience working in Agile product development environments
• Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable system design
• Experience with CI/CD, source control and modern development practices
• Confidence leading technical discussions and mentoring others — you'll help set the tone for a brand-new team
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot

Bonus points for

• Blazor or modern frontend framework experience
• SQL database design and optimisation
• Azure and AWS/cloud-native development (this product is migrating core services from Azure to AWS)
• Kubernetes and containerised workloads
• API design and integration
• SaaS or multi-tenant platform experience
• Authentication and authorisation technologies
• Experience within healthcare, care or highly regulated environments
• Prior experience as a founding/early engineer on a new team