.NET Lead Engineer
Belfast | Hybrid | Permanent
At a Glance
Role:.NET Lead Engineer
Location:Belfast (Hybrid)
Salary:Competitive + bonus and benefits
Employment type:Permanent, full-time
Stack:C#, .NET 6+, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, Azure, Docker, CI/CD
The Company
Our client is a Northern Ireland-founded technology business building modern digital products at serious scale. Their platforms underpin supply chain and operational decision-making for convenience brands across the UK and beyond, supporting physical sites and real customer journeys every day.
The culture here is direct: identify the pain, build the remedy, scale it. It is a delivery-focused environment that values pragmatic engineering, fast feedback loops, and people who take ownership seriously.
The Role
This is a leadership position for a senior .NET engineer ready to take ownership of a small, high-performing team. You will set standards, make architectural decisions, and ship features used daily by real customers.
The platform is expanding into new customers and international markets, making this a genuinely good time to join. You will have clear product direction, access to leadership, and the space to influence how the engineering function grows from here.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of .NET engineers, setting standards and elevating engineering quality across the function
- Design and build services powering ordering, payments, delivery workflows, and analytics
- Own technical decision-making across architecture, performance, reliability, and security
- Work closely with product, design, and data teams to translate operational problems into clean, effective software
- Champion automated testing, continuous delivery, and good engineering practice
- Guide the platform’s evolution towards modular, cloud-native architectures
- Review code, support career development, and contribute to hiring plans
- Collaborate with external stakeholders including retail partners and university research teams
Technology Environment
- C# and .NET 6 or newer
- ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services
- SQL Server with modern ORM patterns; exposure to alternative datastores is beneficial
- Event-driven integrations, messaging, and queuing
- Azure preferred; AWS experience welcomed
- Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
- Frontend awareness for API design; React or similar is a plus
- Observability tooling: logging, metrics, and alerting
What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Proven experience leading .NET engineering teams delivering production-grade systems
- Strong architectural capability across domain modelling, API design, and data design
- A track record of improving code quality, reliability, and delivery flow
- Comfortable working in a product-led environment with rapid iteration
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience in payments, order orchestration, or logistics
- Knowledge of food safety or allergen information systems
- Awareness of compliance and regulated data handling
- Cloud performance tuning and cost optimisation
Why Apply
- Meaningful ownership of a live platform used at scale by real customers
- Clear progression path toward Engineering Manager or Architect
- Hybrid working from a modern Belfast office
- Dedicated training budget with time protected for learning
- A delivery-focused culture that values initiative and trusts engineers to lead
Interview Process
- Intro call with the Ocho team and the hiring manager
- Technical conversation and practical design discussion with senior engineers
- Final culture and values conversation with leadership
Interested?
Based within commuting distance of Belfast? Apply directly or reach out to Ryan Quinn at Ocho for a confidential conversation.
Skills:.Net Azure SQL
WHJS1_NI
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