Software Lead - Hands-on Tech Leadership in Dublin

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Dublin; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Software Lead role at MCS Group is an opportunity to shape engineering at a growing Irish software start-up. You’ll split time between hands-on coding in C#/.NET and making architectural decisions, while mentoring engineers and shaping delivery across Angular front-ends and .NET back-ends.

Based in Dublin city centre, this office-led environment offers ownership of feature work, sprint planning, and the chance to grow your own team as the business scales.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead engineer with hands-on coding and leadership responsibilities.
• Strong experience delivering software in modern web stacks (Angular/.NET).
• Proven ability to mentor, review code and influence architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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 translate requirements into deliverables.
• Own sprint planning, estimation and delivery.
• Assist in hiring and growing the engineering team.
• Collaborate with Platform team on performance, scalability, reliability and security.

Skills

C#/.NET

Angular

Leadership

Mentoring

Code review

API design

Tools

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

The Software Lead role at MCS Group is an opportunity to shape engineering at a growing Irish software start-up. You’ll split time between hands-on coding in C#/.NET and making architectural decisions, while mentoring engineers and shaping delivery across Angular front-ends and .NET back-ends.

Based in Dublin city centre, this office-led environment offers ownership of feature work, sprint planning, and the chance to grow your own team as the business scales.