Development Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead a small team of four developers while actively participating as a senior engineer.

• Develop clean, testable, production-ready code in .NET (C#) and SQL Server across the monorepo and Registry Hub services.

• Tackle complex and ambiguous technical challenges, establishing standards for design, code quality, and testing.

• Assume ownership of significant features and services from design through to delivery and operation.

• Facilitate architecture and design discussions while conveying technical trade-offs effectively.

• Promote Claude Code and agentic development alongside QA workflows for code generation, refactoring, testing, code reviews, regression checks, and code analysis.

• Define and enhance prompt engineering practices, agent configurations, and guardrails.

• Assess and integrate new AI tools, promoting broader engineering adoption.

• Evaluate the impact of AI-assisted development on both velocity and quality.

• Design and implement integrations with third-party registry APIs and data sources across 120 countries.

• Create robust, observable, and maintainable integration patterns, incorporating retries, error handling, rate limiting, and monitoring.

• Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams on system and workflow integrations.

• Manage four developers through one-on-one meetings, performance management, and career development planning.

• Mentor and support engineers through code reviews and collaborative efforts.

• Oversee team delivery by managing planning, prioritization, and the removal of blockers in coordination with product and the CTO.

• Cultivate a high-trust, high-ownership engineering culture and assist in recruiting and onboarding new engineers.

• Advocate for testing and ensure safe, repeatable Azure DevOps CI/CD deployments.

• Work asynchronously with a distributed team across three time zones utilizing Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Jira.

• Document technical decisions, architecture, and operational runbooks.

• Collaborate with product, compliance, and customer success teams to deliver practical solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7–10 years of professional software development experience, with strong current hands-on expertise in .NET / C#.

• Extensive experience with SQL Server, including queries, stored procedures, and relational data modeling.

• Proven track record in designing, building, and utilizing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party systems and data sources.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Functions, App Services, Service Bus, Blob Storage, Key Vault, and APIM.

• Demonstrated experience in leading, mentoring, or managing engineers.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tools (such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot).

• Strong judgment in system design and architecture, with the capability to clearly articulate pragmatic trade-offs.

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills within a distributed system environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for remote and distributed teams.

• Comfortable balancing hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities, ideally maintaining an 80/20 coding-to-leadership ratio.

• Experience in configuring or operating agentic AI workflows for development or QA at the team level.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, including Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, and automated deployments.

• Experience with message-driven and event-driven architectures, such as Azure Service Bus and queues.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Front-end experience using React or other modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.

• Background in regulated industries, such as FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech, or similar.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with occasional in-person collaboration days.

• Annual leave plus UK bank holidays (25 days plus 8 bank holidays).

• Private Medical Insurance coverage.

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies.

• Supportive family and sick leave policies.

• Top-tier pension contributions.

• Annual budget for training and professional development.

• Provision of a laptop and home office equipment as needed.

• Work from Anywhere policy allowing up to 20 days per year (subject to policy conditions).

• Wellbeing programme and quarterly social events.