London-based Software Development Manager — Lead .NET & API teams

Penguin Random House UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonus scheme

Benefits

Job summary

Penguin Random House UK in London is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead our Technology team from Embassy Gardens. The role blends people leadership with technical direction to deliver reliable services and modernised integration flows.

You will guide a developer community, driving architecture, standards and hands-on contributions, while ensuring delivery and continuity of live services. This is a permanent role based in our London office.

Qualifications

• Substantial senior/lead developer or technical team lead experience.
• Proven leadership including coaching, performance conversations and objective setting.
• Strong hands-on C# & .NET expertise including ASP.NET Core and Web API services.
• Experience with API/microservices design and event-driven delivery (Azure Service Bus, Kafka).
• Practical CI/CD, automated testing, Git and secure development practices.
• Familiarity with containers and infrastructure as code; collaborative platform decisions.
• Knowledge of Azure API Management, Logic Apps and cloud-native Azure engineering.
• Experience with Node.js, Python or TypeScript in mixed-language stacks.
• Experience with integration or middleware modernisation and refactoring of legacy point-to-point solutions.
• Experience with GitHub, GitLab, Jira toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop permanent software developers across Integration Services.
• Own recruitment, onboarding, retention and succession planning for the team.
• Build capability against target architecture and delivery pipeline; identify skill gaps.
• Provide hands-on technical input with C#/.NET reviews, pairing and POCs.
• Define and maintain engineering standards, CI/CD, testing, security and observability.
• Establish governance for AI-assisted development, data handling and accountability.
• Improve tooling, source control, pipelines and work-tracking processes.
• Lead Agile delivery across squads and mentor teams to higher maturity.
• Support Head of Integration Services with developer allocation and capacity planning.
• Monitor squad health, dependencies and delivery risks; report to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Leads on deployments and architecture.

Skills

C# & .NET

ASP.NET Core

Web API

API & Microservices

Azure Service Bus

Kafka

CI/CD

Git

Containers

IaC

Node.js

Python

TypeScript

Azure API Management

Logic Apps

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

AI governance

Tools

Jira

GitHub

GitLab

Git

Docker

Job description

Penguin Random House UK in London is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead our Technology team from Embassy Gardens. The role blends people leadership with technical direction to deliver reliable services and modernised integration flows.

You will guide a developer community, driving architecture, standards and hands-on contributions, while ensuring delivery and continuity of live services. This is a permanent role based in our London office.