Lead Software Engineer - AI-Driven, Scalable & Secure

Dfds A/S; Turkey; On-site; TRY 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

DFDS is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape technical direction across development teams, delivering secure, scalable software solutions. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes mentoring engineers, guiding architecture, and driving modern practices including AI-assisted development.

You will work with .NET, cloud platforms, containers, and data technologies, collaborating with PMs, Architects and engineers to turn business challenges into reliable software aligned with standards.

Qualifications

• Experienced software engineer with a track record delivering complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of .NET, cloud platforms, containers, databases, CI/CD, testing and observability.
• Experience with AI coding assistants or AI-driven development workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical direction and leading the design, development and deployment of scalable software solutions.
• Technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers and helping them grow their technical capabilities.
• Working with Product Managers, Architects and stakeholders to understand business needs, define technical solutions, estimate work and prioritize development activities.
• Driving high standards for code quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Reviewing and challenging technical decisions and ensuring solutions align with architectural and engineering standards.
• Troubleshooting complex technical problems, identifying risks and driving continuous improvement.
• Helping teams adopt modern DevOps, CI/CD, testing and observability practices.
• Exploring and applying AI-assisted development and agentic engineering practices where they can provide genuine value.
• Helping establish effective ways of using AI for activities such as code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, code review, analysis and developer workflows.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Architectural direction

Tools

C#/.NET

VB.NET

AWS

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Kubernetes

Docker

RDS

Job description

DFDS is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to shape technical direction across development teams, delivering secure, scalable software solutions. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes mentoring engineers, guiding architecture, and driving modern practices including AI-assisted development.

You will work with .NET, cloud platforms, containers, and data technologies, collaborating with PMs, Architects and engineers to turn business challenges into reliable software aligned with standards.