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