Senior C# Architect – Real-Time, Scalable Microservices Lead

Platform Recruitment; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Platform Recruitment seeks an experienced Senior C# Developer to lead the design, development and optimisation of its core communications infrastructure. You will build, integrate and maintain PC applications, driving a future architecture based on microservices and APIs.

You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction and deliver high performance, low latency solutions while ensuring security and resilience across distributed systems in a global customer base.

Qualifications

• A degree in a relevant discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with C#/.NET.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture, design and delivery of high performance, secure communication systems in C#/.NET.
• Build robust, low latency applications for high data volumes (messaging queues, real-time processing).
• Set technical direction for the platform and align with business goals.
• Lead code reviews, define coding standards and CI/CD pipelines.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues to keep systems reliable.
• Mentor mid-level and senior developers to promote technical excellence.

Skills

C#/.NET

Distributed systems

gRPC

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Multithreading

Security

UI frameworks

WPF

MVVM

MVC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Platform Recruitment seeks an experienced Senior C# Developer to lead the design, development and optimisation of its core communications infrastructure. You will build, integrate and maintain PC applications, driving a future architecture based on microservices and APIs.

You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction and deliver high performance, low latency solutions while ensuring security and resilience across distributed systems in a global customer base.