Senior Software Developer

Youngs Employment Services; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Job summary

Youngs Employment Services is seeking a Senior Software Developer to help move a major booking platform to Azure and a modern .NET stack while building AI-powered quotation tools. You will design and ship production services, support a strangler-fig migration, and collaborate with product and engineering teams in a hybrid London role.

Ideal candidates have 6–10 years of .NET/C# experience, strong Azure expertise, and hands-on capability with AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of hands-on software development, predominantly in .NET/C#.
• Recent experience with modern .NET (6/7/8+) and Blazor.
• Strong Azure experience including App Service or Container Apps and Azure SQL.
• Experience modernising legacy systems with an incremental approach.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support cloud-based services on Azure with .NET.
• Lead a strangler-fig migration from legacy to cloud-based architecture.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions.
• Implement secure services and authentication using Entra ID / OAuth2.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams and mentor juniors.
• Contribute to AI-enabled tooling and knowledge platforms.

Skills

C# / .NET

Azure

Blazor

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Azure DevOps

API Management

Job description

Senior Software Developer

Location: London - hybrid, 3 days per week in the office

Salary: c£65,000 - £75,000 + bonus

The Opportunity - Senior Developer - Cloud Platform & AI

We're recruiting for a Senior Software Developer to join a small, highly capable technology team delivering a major legacy-to-cloud transformation. The business is moving its core booking platform to an Azure and modern .NET solution, while also building an AI-powered quotation and knowledge platform that will be central to how the organisation works. This is a hands-on senior engineering role and you'll be joining at a point where the architecture, delivery approach and product direction still matter. You'll design and ship production services, contribute to a structured strangler-fig migration, and use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code as part of everyday engineering practice. The role would suit an experienced Senior Developer, or a strong Developer ready to step up in a collaborative, senior-led environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and support cloud-based services in .NET 10 across Azure API Management, Azure SQL and the wider Azure platform.
• Help modernise a business-critical booking platform using an incremental strangler-fig migration approach.
• Work on anti-corruption layers, two-way data synchronisation, staged cutovers, validation and zero-downtime release patterns.
• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Develop secure services within the Entra ID identity plane for staff and customer authentication.
• Contribute to AI-enabled quotation and knowledge tools, including human-in-the-loop quote drafting and retrieval-augmented knowledge features.
• Collaborate closely with mobile, product and engineering colleagues where your APIs are consumed across different surfaces.
• Take part in architecture discussions, code reviews and mentoring of graduate developers.

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on software development experience, ideally 6-10 years, with the majority in .NET/C#.
• Recent experience with modern .NET, ideally .NET 8 or later.
• Blazor experience.
• Strong Azure experience, including App Service or Container Apps, Azure SQL, API Management and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience modernising legacy systems, ideally using strangler-fig or similar incremental migration approaches.
• Good understanding of REST API design, microservices and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Practical day-to-day use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or similar.
• Identity and authentication experience, including Entra ID/Azure AD, OAuth2 or OIDC.
• Comfortable working with SQL Server or Azure SQL data modelling, performance and migration activities.
• Clear communication skills and the confidence to work in a small permanent team where engineers take ownership from design through to delivery.

Useful Additional Experience

• Exposure to React or React Native, particularly where APIs support web or mobile products.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search or integrating LLM-based features into production products.
• Experience working in a scale-up, transformation programme or small permanent technology team.

Salary: c£65,000-£75,000, with some flexibility.