Brand New Role – Lead .NET Developer
Manchester City Centre – Hybrid (2 days onsite)
Up to £75,000 + 10% bonus + benefits (enhanced pension etc.)
One of the North West’s largest engineering organisations is continuing a huge modernisation journey after migrating onto its own proprietary platform.
They’re now looking for a Lead .NET Developer to help shape the next generation of backend systems powering a platform used by millions globally.
This is the type of Lead role a lot of engineers actually want but rarely find.
Still heavily hands-on technically, but with genuine influence across architecture, engineering standards, mentoring and technical direction.
The environment itself is large-scale and technically challenging:
• Modern .NET / C#
• Microservices & distributed systems
• AWS & cloud-native engineering
• Kafka & event-driven architecture
• Kubernetes & containerisation
• CI/CD & automation
• High throughput, highly available systems
This isn’t a must-have list, this is to show you what tech they are working with they are just looking for someone who is solid with .NET.
They also deploy a lot.
Engineering teams ship changes continuously rather than waiting around for massive release cycles, so there’s a strong focus on automation, platform reliability and building systems that allow engineers to move quickly with confidence.
What stood out most to me though was the progression and engineering culture internally.
A lot of businesses hire “Lead Developers” with nowhere meaningful to go afterwards.
That’s not the case here.
The proof is in the pudding with internal progression. A huge number of people who joined as Lead Engineers have gone on to become:
• Engineering Managers
• Architects
• Staff Engineers
• Heads of Engineering
The choice is genuinely yours depending on where your strengths sit over time.
You’ll also have the chance to help grow and shape your own engineering team as the organisation continues scaling.
One of the more underrated things about the business is the tenure as well. A lot of engineers stay long-term because the technical problems remain interesting whilst the environment itself stays stable, well-supported and genuinely rewarding to work in.
No CV needed initially either. Happy to start with a LinkedIn profile and take it from there
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