Tech Lead – Azure Microservices, Hands-On, Hybrid

Acorn Insurance Ltd; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn Insurance Ltd seeks a Technical Lead to guide a cross-functional squad in designing, building and delivering scalable software on Azure. You’ll be hands-on, set technical direction and mentor teammates while collaborating with product managers, designers and QA in a hybrid Liverpool-based role.

You’ll shape architecture, drive engineering standards and contribute to wider platform initiatives, with autonomy and a strong customer focus.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software delivery within a microservice-based environment.
• Strong technical background in .NET and Azure.
• Comfortable working across the stack, with deeper expertise in backend systems.
• Experience mentoring and guiding developers in a collaborative, agile setup.
• Product-focused mindset with an understanding of trade-offs between speed, scalability and user experience.
• Excellent communicator who brings clarity and empathy to technical discussions.
• Passion for clean, maintainable code and continuous improvement.
• Curious and proactive, always looking for better ways to build, measure and deliver.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary squad to deliver high-quality, production-ready software.
• Design and build scalable microservices in .NET and Azure.
• Contribute to the evolution of our microservice architecture and integration patterns.
• Collaborate with frontend developers working in React and Next.js to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Partner with product managers, BAs and designers to translate customer needs into clear technical plans.
• Work closely with QA and automation testers to ensure quality and reliability are built in from the start.
• Stay hands-on with code while mentoring developers and promoting best practices.
• Drive technical discussions, champion clean architecture and improve our engineering standards.
• Contribute to wider engineering initiatives, including developer experience and shared tooling.

Skills

Microservice leadership

.NET & Azure

Backend focus

Mentoring

Agile / Scrum

Communication

Product-minded

Problem solving

Tools

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

SQL Server

Job description

Acorn Insurance Ltd seeks a Technical Lead to guide a cross-functional squad in designing, building and delivering scalable software on Azure. You’ll be hands-on, set technical direction and mentor teammates while collaborating with product managers, designers and QA in a hybrid Liverpool-based role.

You’ll shape architecture, drive engineering standards and contribute to wider platform initiatives, with autonomy and a strong customer focus.