Software Engineering Lead

Fenny Stratford
9 hours ago
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The role: Software Engineering Lead 

Salary: Up to £90,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid 

VIQU 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 

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Jack McManus via the (url removed)

Do you know someone great? We’ll thank you with up to £1,000 if your referral is successful (terms apply). For more exciting roles and opportunities like this, please follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment

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