Lead Software Engineer: AI-Driven, Scalable Systems

DFDS; Ataşehir; On-site; TRY 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

DFDS seeks a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the development team, shaping direction and delivering secure, scalable software. You will guide engineers, collaborate with product managers, and drive best practices in DevOps, testing and AI-driven development.

You will work hands-on with .NET, cloud services, containers, databases and observability tools, mentoring the team while raising standards and accelerating delivery in an AI-empowered environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced software engineer with a proven track record delivering complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of .NET, cloud platforms, containers, databases, CI/CD, testing and observability.
• Willingness to mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions in an AI-enabled environment.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical direction and leading the design, development and deployment of scalable software solutions across the organisation.
• Providing 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 prioritise development activities.
• Driving high standards for code quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Reviewing and challenging technical decisions and ensuring solutions are aligned 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.
• Working with engineers to ensure that AI-generated solutions meet the same standards for security, quality, maintainability and reliability as any other software.
• Contributing to the evolution of our engineering practices and helping shape how software development will work in an increasingly AI-enabled environment.

Skills

C#/.NET

VB.NET

AWS

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Kubernetes

Docker

RDS

CI/CD

Testing

Observability

AI-driven development

Leadership

Software architecture

Tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Kubernetes

Docker

RDS

.NET

Job description

DFDS seeks a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the development team, shaping direction and delivering secure, scalable software. You will guide engineers, collaborate with product managers, and drive best practices in DevOps, testing and AI-driven development.

You will work hands-on with .NET, cloud services, containers, databases and observability tools, mentoring the team while raising standards and accelerating delivery in an AI-empowered environment.