Lead Developer

Lead Developer

Brighton / Hybrid / Fully Remote

Lead Developer required by a leading technology / software compare based in the centre of Brighton. The Lead Developer will work with an awesome team in an awesome company culture and be involved in software development as well as leading a small development team. Core skills will include C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core / .NET 5 and SQL Server. I have recruited over 30 people for these guys over the last several years and as a recruiter with 20 years experience I can say that these guys have the best company culture I have ever experienced bar none!

Benefits

The Lead Developer will not only work for an awesome company with exciting growth plans and a fantastic company culture, but you will also benefit from:

• Starting salary of up to £65,000
• Office based / Hybrid / Fully Remote WFH available
• 25 days annual leave (Plus Bank holidays) increasing with service
• Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Pension Plan
• Perkbox Retail discounts
• Various salary sacrifice schemes (season ticket loan, ride to work, childcare vouchers etc.)
• Training & Development budget
• 'Wind-down' Fridays, bi-weekly (games, pizza, drinks etc.)
• Bring your dog to work day once a month
• Free onsite massages
• Casual dress environment
• Awesome vibe & culture
• Excellent career learning / progression opportunities

A few details about the role

As a Lead Developer you will encompass a role that both leads the team from both a technical perspective as well as being a mentor, coach and go to person on a personal level. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and line manage a team of developers, ensuring that levels of engagement remain high, and the team is empowered to deliver brilliant work. To include performing 1-2-1s, identifying training needs and managing professional progression.
• Working closely with the other Development Team Leads to drive performance and engagement throughout the development teams; co-ordinate training needs; and facilitate career pathing and progression.
• Liaising with the Development Manager to highlight knowledge development areas for the Development Team to assist with project allocation and resourcing.
• Participating in the development of the technical strategy in collaboration with key colleagues.
• Ensuring that your team understands, feeds into and is aligned with the technical strategy.
• Providing technical and process guidance to ensure that sound application design and quality practices are followed.
• Direct liaison with customers to provide technical consultation and guidance, working alongside Business Development Managers, Business Analysts and Account Managers during workshops and other customer meetings.
• Assisting and supporting BAs to produce solution designs for customer projects, as required.
• Involvement and input in solution and architectural design, working closely with the Architect team.
• Providing sound decision making for software development, ensuring that the constraints and needs of the business are considered alongside the overall technical strategy.
• Actively share your knowledge with the wider Developer community.
• Contribute to core product development.
• Fostering collaboration and communication amongst team members.
• Participating in cross-functional process improvement initiatives.
• Stay abreast with technical development and trends.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

What you will need

Desire is fantastic, but you will also need:

• Thrives on problem solving, loves grappling with complexity and can make the most difficult concepts easy to understand using sincere and clear communication skills
• Has a friendly Can do attitude
• Collaborates effectively with other disciplines and can be trusted to deliver
• Wants to invent cool, progressive stuff thats useful to the industry
• Has calm presence of mind when its needed
• Has a strong sensible streak but knows how to have a bit of fun now and again
• Excellent software development skills (C#, SQL, XSLT, Web Api, MVC and .NET Framework)
• Experience in the design and implementation of services, using WCF or other service-oriented technologies
• Experience using Visual Studio and Git
• Excellent Object Oriented design skills (Design Patterns, SOLID)
• Experience inputting into architectural design and solutions
• Experience in managing, leading or coaching team members
• Experience in providing technical guidance to other Developers and the wider team
• Experience in TDD (Test Driven Development)
• An understanding of business operations and commercial decisions
• Experience of continuous integration, continuous deployment and automated integration testing
• Ability to operate independently within defined methodologies, procedures, and guidelines
• Excellent communication skills and experience working closely with external stakeholders
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Technical writing skills
• Experience with .NET Core / .NET 5, Kubernetes and Docker will be advantageous but not essential

If you feel that you are the Lead Developer that my client is after, then please apply via the link or contact me directly on my personal LinkedIn profile page.

All the best,

Charlie Syrett

Richmond Square Consulting Ltd

Alternative job titles: Development Team Lead, Software Development Team Leader, Principal Developer, Senior Software Developer, .NET Development Lead