Senior .NET Backend Lead — Azure & Microservices (Hybrid)

RAC; Darlaston; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme (up to 6.5% matched)

Colleague Share Scheme

Car salary sacrifice (EV options)

Wellbeing support

Discount portal (Orange Savings)

Job summary

RAC is seeking a Senior Backend .NET Software Engineer to lead the Breakdown team, delivering scalable backend services using .NET Core, C#, SQL and Azure. You will shape architecture, drive best practices, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in a high-traffic, critical system.

You’ll contribute to long-term tech strategy, promote CI/CD and DevOps tooling, and collaborate with Product and other tech functions to deliver customer-focused solutions from the RAC Digital ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building high quality backend systems using .NET Core, C#, APIs, SQL and cloud technologies (Azure).
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, microservices, containerisation (Kubernetes) and modern patterns.
• Proven ability to lead technical workstreams, influence decisions and mentor others without formal line management.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to make sense of complex requirements.
• Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies and software engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key technical leader in your product team, driving engineering best practice and decision-making.
• Design and deliver robust backend architecture and software using .NET Core, C#, SQL, and Azure.
• Contribute to technical design, future-state architecture and long-term technology strategy.
• Lead engineering initiatives, improve delivery processes, and champion automation and quality.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, Kubernetes and cloud-native patterns.
• Provide coaching and mentoring across squads to elevate capability and standards.
• Collaborate with Product and other teams to shape requirements and deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Own and manage technical debt with prioritisation for maintainability.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and development of engineering talent.

Job description

RAC is seeking a Senior Backend .NET Software Engineer to lead the Breakdown team, delivering scalable backend services using .NET Core, C#, SQL and Azure. You will shape architecture, drive best practices, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in a high-traffic, critical system.

You’ll contribute to long-term tech strategy, promote CI/CD and DevOps tooling, and collaborate with Product and other tech functions to deliver customer-focused solutions from the RAC Digital ecosystem.