Software Engineering Lead

The role: Software Engineering Lead

Salary: Up to £90,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid

VIQU IT have partnered with a growing but established SaaS organisation who are hiring a Software Engineering Lead to play a key role in shaping technical direction of the product whilst leading a team of five software engineers. The is very much a player coach role (30% management, 70% architecutre and hands on coding) . This is an exciting opportunity to shape engineering standards at a company at a pivotal point in their growth, having an influence over the technical strategy whilst remaining hands.

Experience required:

• Strong background in modern .NET/C# development & architecture.
• A track record of leading and mentoring teams of engineers.

• Cloud experience across Azure & AWS.
• Experience with Angular framework, REST APIs and Web API development.
• Experience with testing frameworks and quality engineering practices (unit & integration testing and test driven development). SpecFlow for Behaviour-Driven Development and Postman for API testing.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Docker and containerised applications.
• Hands on experience with serverless cloud architecture would be a nice to have.

Duties of the Software Engineering Lead

• Leading a team of 5 engineers within a scaled agile environment.
• Conducting code and architecture reviews to maintain consistency, quality, and maintainability whilst remaining hands on in the code.
• Embedding robust testing practices (TDD, integration testing, BDD) and driving automation across regression suites.
• Design and architect solutions using CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Working within AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, event-based services).
• Exploring and introducing AI related efficiencies.

The role: Software Engineering Lead

Salary: Up to £90,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid

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