Senior Web Developer - .Net

Equator; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matching

Free gym membership

Private healthcare

Mental health support programme

Cycle-to-Work 42% discount

Enhanced parental leave

Daily coffee & Friday drinks

Social events & team outings

Long-term service rewards

Flexible working

Job summary

Equator is seeking a senior developer to lead delivery and architecture for client projects in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment. You will own technical approaches, drive secure, scalable solutions, and mentor a team through design reviews and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities include coordinating with stakeholders, ensuring robust testing, and maintaining secure environments, with a focus on mentoring and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery of features and optimisations.
• Ability to mentor developers and drive AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong understanding of security and data protection in development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, secure and performant solutions that meet clients’ requirements.
• Own architecture decisions and solution design.
• Lead AI-assisted development and ensure quality, security and accountability.
• Ensure code is reviewed and merged via Pull Requests.
• Estimate work with documented approach and assumptions.
• Use tooling like JIRA to monitor progress and issues.
• Provide progress visibility and remove impediments.
• Collaborate with Test Managers on testing strategy.
• Document changes to shared environments securely.
• Coaching junior developers and mentoring teams.
• Protect client and company data in every AI workflow.
• Participate in retrospectives and support business development.
• Lead client demos and attend meetings as required.
• Take morning stand ups and report to Engineering Manager.

Skills

AI tooling

3rd party integrations

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder collaboration

Code reviews

Production troubleshooting

HTML/CSS

CMS experience (Umbraco Sitecore Optiz

Tools

Umbraco

Sitecore

Optimizely

Job description

The thing that makes your position so important in Equator is that you take the lead development role in projects. You are fully responsible for ensuring the technical approach and delivery of the solutions we build is successful using the appropriate technology and workflows.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, secure and performant solutions that meet our clients’ requirements.
• Own the architecture decisions and solution design for your work.
• AI-assisted development is now core to how we deliver. You lead its adoption on your projects, capturing the speed it offers while owning the quality, security and accountability that come with it.
• Ensure all code is reviewed and merged via Pull Requests.
• Ensure estimates are created for all work, documenting suggested approach and assumptions.
• Ensure you and the developers you lead use appropriate tooling (such as JIRA), so progress and issues can be monitored at all times.
• Ensure everyone on your team records progress and time appropriately. Keep a clear overview of progress, issues and overall project status, and take the steps needed to remove project impediments.
• Ensure all of your own work, and the work of the teams you lead, is tested using appropriate tools and techniques, agreed before a project begins. Collaborate with a Test Manager for a shared project testing strategy.
• Ensure required changes to the shared environment (internal and external) are documented appropriately.
• Coordinate scoping on large projects, and give more junior team members the opportunity to take part, with proper support, for their development.
• Take a leading role in project retrospectives.
• Take an active role in mentoring the developers you lead, and give them the support they need. Coach good judgement with AI tools, not just how to use them, so they learn to question, test and understand what AI produces.
• Protect client and company data in every AI workflow.
• Conduct regular solution audits on our live solutions including: ensuring supported dependencies, performance, technical debt and CICD pipeline.
• Ensure access to our environment, or our clients’, is performed securely.
• Ensure all activity keeps to security best practice, across system development, internal systems, communications, buildings and hardware. Make sure appropriate security checks are carried out on all systems and that systems comply with data protection legislation (GDPR, PCI compliance).
• Participate in the development team support rota.
• Where appropriate, help the new business team ballpark and estimate new opportunities and complete associate documentation.
• Prepare and lead client demos to show the project progress and value.
• Attend client meetings and present when required.
• Take morning stand ups and report any issues to your Engineering Manager as required.

The Ideal Candidate

This is an ideal role for developers already in a senior role or those looking to take the step up- willing to lead delivery of features, optimisations and troubleshooting.

Required skills:

• Utilising AI tooling to optimise engineering lifecycle
• Integrating with 3rdparty systems for example CRM, payment systems, booking systems.
• Building and maintaining CICD pipelines
• Collaborating with stakeholders including project management
• Supporting other engineers & conducting code reviews
• Troubleshooting production systems & identifying resolutions
• HTML & CSS
• Content management experience, our core platforms are: Umbraco, Sitecore & Optimizley

What's in it for you?

We want a secure future for all our team. Join our Pension Scheme and 10% will be matched by us.

Lots of holidays

34 days holidays so we can all relax and enjoy our time off. Also, you get an extra day for every year you work (up to 5 extra days)

Free Gym Membership

Exclusive membership to the hi-tech Village Gym, or a contribution to a gym of your choice

We have been a champion of flexible working long before the pandemic

Free Private Healthcare

Every team member gets private healthcare, to make sure you get access to the best treatment.

Mental health aware

We are passionate about mental health, so everyone gets access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme. You can also become one of our mental health first aiders.

42% off a New Bike

Take part in the Cycle-to-Work scheme and save up to 42% on a new bike.

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

We are a family-oriented company. Get enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a huge celebration when you bring in the baby!

Daily Coffee, Friday Drinks and Mountains of Fruit

Fresh fruit, bottomless caffeine, and celebratory drinks every Friday for a week well done!

The Best Social Scene

From summer BBQs on a private island on Loch Lomond to Christmas glamour there’s always something to look forward to.

You get a grand every time one of your friends join the team.

Long-term service rewards

The longer you stay, the more we celebrate you. At each major milestone you’ll get a surprise gift as a big thank you.