Dublin: Hands-On Software Lead — Build & Scale

MCS Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

You will join an exciting Irish software startup in Dublin, taking on a hands‑on leadership role to help build and grow a core software engineering team. You’ll split time between coding and guiding architecture while shaping how features are delivered in a modern .NET/Angular stack.

Ideal candidates are Senior or Lead Software Engineers who want to move into formal leadership, mentoring engineers, owning delivery, and contributing to architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial C#/.NET experience.
• Angular or strong modern front-end experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.
• Good understanding of APIs, databases and scalable application design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of new product features from design through to production.
• Remain hands-on with C#/.NET and contribute to technical decisions.
• Lead, mentor and develop software engineers.
• Review code and set engineering standards.
• Make architectural decisions around APIs, data models and service boundaries.
• Drive quality across unit, integration and E2E testing.
• Work with Product and Design to turn requirements into deliverable work.
• Take ownership of sprint planning, estimation and delivery.
• Help hire and grow the engineering team.
• Collaborate with Platform team on performance, scalability, reliability and security.

Skills

C#/.NET

Angular

Mentoring/leadership

APIs & architecture

Testing & quality

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

NoSQL / MongoDB

Job description

You will join an exciting Irish software startup in Dublin, taking on a hands‑on leadership role to help build and grow a core software engineering team. You’ll split time between coding and guiding architecture while shaping how features are delivered in a modern .NET/Angular stack.

Ideal candidates are Senior or Lead Software Engineers who want to move into formal leadership, mentoring engineers, owning delivery, and contributing to architectural decisions.