Lead Developer – Manchester City Centre (2 days p/w in office) £70k -£80k + bonus

Based in Manchester City Centre with 2 days a week in office (Wed, Thurs), this Lead role is paying between £70k and £80k + a 10% bonus.

Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, and working with other Lead Developers, you will provide technical leadership on complex workstreams running in parallel with other teams. These workstreams are focused on back-end development of trading tools used by internal stakeholders.

The organisation is transitioning to a microservices architecture, which means that there will be an equal balance between legacy system work and new development initiatives on the roadmap. The intention is to move away from old ways of working, and look at the best approach and technologies, giving you the opportunity to really effect change and make an impact.

Responsibilities:

• Being the Technical Lead in the design and implementation in solutions
• Being the go-to person for a development team of 10
• Leading refinement sessions
• Driving continuous improvement in either tooling or processes and then running POC’s for them.
• Driving collaboration across teams where there is cross-over or overlap on projects, technology or impact
• Support and maintain the teams AWS development and test environments which are spun-up and torn-down regularly.
• Hands-on coding
• Designing document structures for databases

Requirements:

• Previous experience leading a team and implementing continuous improvements
• Extensive experience with C#, .Net, SQL Server and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases)
• Experience working with message brokers i.e. RabbitMQ, ServiceBus or Kafka
• Good understanding of pipelines such as Jenkins
• Good understanding of database operations and clustering
• Prior experience with the likes of WinForms, WCP or WPF
• Understanding of either AWS, Azure or other cloud environments
• Experience with large scale systems

On offer:

• Flexible working hours
• Annual bonus
• 25 days leave + bank holidays
• Pension
• Enhanced paternity and maternity leave
• etc.

Only candidates residing within a reasonable commutable distance from Manchester (or willing to relocate) and whom have the right to work in the UK will be considered.

Interested? Contact Philip Boltt at Lorien Global.