X3 Hands On Software Engineering Managers/Tech leads – C#/.NET/AZURE - Data & Performance

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a strong focus on data architecture, application performance, and platform scalability.

You’ll lead a small senior engineering team, combining technical delivery with people leadership (around 75% technical / 25% line management).

Your focus will be on enabling the platform to scale intelligently — supporting reporting, APIs, AI/LLM usage, and real-time customer insight.

What You’ll Do

Lead and support a newly forming team focused on data architecture and application optimisation

Drive structural change within a large, established codebase to support scale

Influence architecture, design, and technology decisions across the platform

Partner closely with Product, Engineering Managers, and SRE leadership

Translate strategic scaling goals into clear, deliverable roadmap initiatives

Contribute to engineering-wide OKRs and technical direction

Champion a culture of learning, collaboration, and thoughtful technical challenge

Remain technically hands-on, solving complex backend and data-driven problems

Tech Stack

Strong backend experience is essential.

Core technologies include:

C# / .NET (Framework & .NET Core)

Azure SQL Server

Azure Cloud Platform

Bonus experience (nice to have):

Azure Cognitive Search

Data pipelines (Fabric or similar)

Search technologies (Lucene, Elastic, NoSQL, MSSQL)

MS SQL views and performance optimisation

About You

You don’t need the job title — but you do need the leadership mindset.

You’ll thrive here if you are:

A strong backend engineer with deep .NET and Azure experience

Comfortable leading technical change in mature, complex systems

Skilled at breaking down big, ambiguous problems into clear actions

Emotionally intelligent and collaborative across teams

Confident challenging decisions — kindly and constructively

Motivated by learning, improvement, and meaningful impact

An excellent communicator who helps align people and priorities

What You’ll Get

Up to £90,000

£1,000+ annual learning & development budget

33 days holiday (rising to 40)

4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years

Private medical, dental & vision cover

Income protection & death-in-service

Matched 5% pension

20 hours paid volunteering time

Regular team socials & All-Hands events

A genuinely kind, ambitious, inclusive engineering culture

Working Model

Remote role – Scotland/Manchester/Leeds