Lead Software Engineer
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Lead Software Engineer
Up to £85,000 per annum
Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)
VIQU IT have partnered with a growing but established SaaS organisation who are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping technical direction of the products, and lead a team of five software engineers.
The role will involve hands on technical leadership, running architecture reviews, managing and mentoring engineers and ensuring projects are delivered successfully.
It is an 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 on.
Experience required:
- Strong background in modern .NET/C# development & architecture.
- A track record of leading and mentoring teams of engineers.
- Serverless AWS experience including; Lambda, IAM, API Gateway and event-driven architecture in AWS environments.
- Experience with frond end development (ideally React but open to other technologies).
- 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.
Duties of the Lead Software Engineer
- 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.
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