33 Application Developer jobs in London

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM CIC. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
We're seeking a FullStack Application Developer to significantly contribute to our cloud development efforts. In this role, you'll lead smaller projects, guide junior developers, and shape our technical direction in full-stack cloud development.
You will actively participate in the entire software development lifecycle, focusing on designing, coding, developer testing, and deploying cloud-native applications using modern full-stack technologies.
Responsibilities
* Project Leadership: Lead smaller projects from design through deployment, showcasing strong technical and project management skills.
* Mentorship: Guide and support Junior Developers, fostering their growth and development.
* Technical Leadership: Contribute to the definition of our development practices and the technical vision of our cloud applications.
* Quality Assurance: Ensure all code developed meets high standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.
* Complex Problem Solving: Tackle and resolve intricate technical challenges, applying your deep expertise in full-stack cloud development
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Proven, and current hands on advanced full-stack development skills, including both front-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and back-end (e.g., Node.js, Python, Ruby, lambda S3 DynamoDB etc)
* Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform
* Proficient in using version control systems (e.g., Git) and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
* Exceptional problem-solving capabilities, with a history of effectively addressing and resolving complex engineering issues.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Knowledge of serverless architectures and microservices.
* Familiarity with event-driven design patterns.
* Understanding of database systems (SQL, NoSQL).
* Experience with cloud security best practices
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

We are recruiting for an experienced Senior IT Database and Application Developer. The role is permanent, full time with a hybrid working style. We are based in Billericay, Essex close to the train station and are required to work 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

The role is offering up to £75,000 per annum dependant on experience along with a competitive benefits package

Supervision

Reports to and works under the administrative supervision of the Software Development Team Lead.

Summary

The IT Database and Applications Developer is a member of the Software Development Team who are responsible for delivering platforms and solutions to the business and its clients.

The candidate is responsible for the development and maintenance of database dependent platforms and solutions, as well as the ongoing maintenance and management of the company’s database installations.

Working together with the IT Infrastructure Team, the IT Database Developer assumes responsibility for all aspects of database operation.

The candidate will also be expected to write and modify desktop applications and services. The main programming language used will be C#. A good knowledge of software and solutions architecture is required here rather than knowledge and experience of any specific programming language.

Essential Duties

As part of a development team work on the construction of new functionality within the database layers to meet business requirements. Manage and improve existing functionality, identify and fix any defects. Keep up to date with latest developments in the industry and ensure solutions remain compatible so that future database upgrades are possible.

Carry out database administrative tasks such as user maintenance, audit log reviews, change control reviews, data archiving, performance measuring and monitoring.

Carry out routine patching to keep up to date with security threats and maintain compliance with security standards and policies.

Work with the Software Development Team Lead to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and to client satisfaction.

Develop and modify applications and services using C#/.Net/.Net core. There will be opportunities to develop in other languages, such as C++, Delphi, PHP. The candidate will be expected to contribute where required.

All development must be carried out to existing coding standards.

The candidate will be expected to act as a mentor and project lead for some of the more junior members of the team.

Key Deliverables

• Design and develop logical and efficient solutions based on understanding objectives and requirements
• Produce work of high quality with an emphasis on reliability, scalability and
• performance
• Develop solutions with an awareness of security and best practices
• Create technical documentation for solutions
• Participate in reviews/audits ensuring that compliance with regulations and accreditations are maintained
• Work with the Software Development Team Lead to deliver all company

Objectives

• Lead small projects and be the lead developer.
• Meet and exceed all company and individual goals in line with the Company’s
• policies, procedures, and values
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by management

Requirements

Required Experience and Qualities

• Experienced IT professional with a strong technical background and knowledge
• Proven experience of the following:

- Microsoft SQL Server versions 2005 through to 2016/2019

- SQL Server Administration

- SQL Server Integration Services

- SQL Server Reporting Services

- SQL Server Analysis Services

- All aspects of database schema: tables. indexes, triggers, stored procedures and functions

- All aspects of SQL DML: select, insert, update, delete

- All aspects of SQL DDL: create, alter, drop, truncate

- All aspects of SQL TCL: begin transaction, commit, rollback, savepoint

• Experience or the willingness to learn MariaDB/ MySQL
• Experience in or the ability to learn to develop applications/service using Visual Studio on a Windows platform.
• Ability to understand high level requirements and expand on them
• Ability to work with a high level of responsibility and autonomy
• Flexibility in terms of working time with a priority on delivering critical business initiatives within agreed timeframes
• A good team player

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and requirements.

The role is for a C# developer who will be working within a small team on Commodities Marking and Market Discovery Platform used by traders across the regions. We offer the opportunity to grow professionally, learn new technologies and gain business knowledge.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Develop the Platform using C# with an opportunity to learn React during WPF to React migration
+ Work directly with quants and traders to specify requirements and own deliveries and 3rd line support to provide daily communication and updates
+ Be involved to testing, documentation and release process as per business requirements and firm standards
+ Collaborate with other global Commodities technology teams and more widely across markets technology
**Knowledge/Experience:**
+ C# development experience with understanding of multi-threading
+ JavaScript, Python, WPF, messaging, React and/or Angular are a plus but not required
+ Experience in financial services is a plus but not required
+ Correct attitude: treat the business, quants and tech colleagues as clients
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
**What we'll provide you**
By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
+ 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
+ A discretional annual performance related bonus
+ Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
+ Employee Assistance Program
+ Pension Plan
+ Paid Parental Leave
+ Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
+ Access to an array of learning and development resources
Visit our ? Global Benefits ? page to learn more.
Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
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Lead Application Software Developer

A fantastic opportunity for a highly-experienced SaaS Software Developer, to join an industry-leading software company in London offering the opportunity to work on a wide variety of web application infrastructure projects. Using a diverse toolset with an emphasis on JavaScript, Node.js and related frameworks, this role is looking for a Developer to lead on the technical front, opposed to team leadership. This is well suited to a seasoned developer, who can bring a host of SaaS application expertise to the business, with a desire to mentor future team members.

Location –  London office (3 days on site, 2 days remote)

Salary –  £80,000 – £100,000 + equity +  comprehensive benefits

Requirements for Lead Application Software Developer

• Several years of commercial experience within a Software Engineer / Developer role
li>Experience with JavaScript and ideally, node.js and related technologies/frameworks
• Experience working for a company where SaaS has been implemented in commercial organisations
• This company values a history of academic excellence, so is looking for a 2:1 or 1st class honours degree from a leading university, plus AAB at A Level (or equivalent UCAS points)
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies – working in JavaScript you’re aware new technologies/frameworks emerge all of the time, and you will need to stay abreast of the latest and best technologies to apply to any given project
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities for Lead Application Software Developer

• Provide leadership on technical decisions within the development of a web-based application
• Develop, deploy and maintain web application infrastructure
• Be a tech innovator and put ideas forward to the team
• Mentor and lead junior team members 
li>Work on web applications using a diverse toolset based around JavaScript technologies. While there will be opportunities to work across the stack. The current tech stack includes:
• Web (UI): JavaScript (backbone.js, d3.js, three.js, pdf.js), Less/CSS
• Web (Backend): Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis

What the role offers:

• The chance to work on a diverse toolset of cutting-edge tech
• Working for a leading software company who have a fantastic track record of successfully training and promoting internally
• A great remuneration and benefits package

Applications:

• If you would like to apply for this unique Developer role then please send your CV via the relevant links!
• We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for your application or during the review process, please highlight this by emailing (if this email address has been removed by the job-board, full details for contact are available on our website).

Keywords –

Software Engineer / Application Developer / Back-End Software Engineer / node.js developer / node.js Software Engineer /  Full-Stack Developer / UI/UX Developer / JavaScript Developer /  Vue.js Developer / MEAN Stack Developer / MERN Stack Developer / Meteor.js Developer / Express.js Developer / Web Design Engineer / Web Integration Developer / Web Architect / Software Engineer (Web) / Web Systems Developer/ Web Software Engineer / Web Programmer / JavaScript / Node.js / backbone.js / HTML5 / Less CSS / Computer Science / Web Development / Web Software Engineer / PHP  Astrophysics / Software Engineering / JavaScript / React.js / AngularJS / Vue.js / Node.js / ExpressJS / Web UI / Front-end / full-stack / back-end / Developer

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at RedTech. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager - Leading Property Business - South London / Hybrid - 65k NEG

Unleash Your Web Wizardry: Lead the Next Generation of ERP!
Are you a visionary Software Engineering Manager or Lead Engineer ready to make a monumental impact?
We're on a mission to revolutionise our highly successful desktop ERP, transforming it into a cutting-edge, self-hosted web solution. This isn't just an upgrade; it's a complete rebirth that will dramatically boost our operational scalability and empower our teams!



What You'll Be Doing

We need a hands-on leader to spearhead the development of our new web application using Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and C# . You'll guide a small, but mighty, team of seasoned developers eager to dive into web development. We're looking for a deeply technical leader who thrives in a high-ownership environment , comfortable driving projects without the traditional support of dedicated DevOps or UI/UX specialists.

Your Impactful Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement core functionality across the full stack: Blazor UI, ASP.NET Core backend, database integration, and deployment.

• Provide technical direction and hands-on development throughout the platform lifecycle.

• Lead and champion team standards for development controls, policies, procedures, and processes.

• Establish practical and sustainable development workflows, testing strategies, and deployment pipelines.

• Ensure the delivered solution is secure, maintainable, performant, and production-ready , with an eye toward long-term extensibility.

• Champion best practices in software engineering while maintaining a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.

Who You Are

You're an engineering maestro with a passion for building robust, scalable web applications. You're not afraid to roll up your sleeves and lead by example.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven, recent, hands-on development experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and T-SQL .

• A solid understanding of web application architecture, component-driven UI development, and backend integration .

• Experience deploying self-hosted applications , with working knowledge of configuration, infrastructure, and security considerations.

• The ability to provide architectural clarity and technical mentorship to engineers transitioning from desktop to web development.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills , with the ability to set direction and manage priorities effectively.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience in early-stage product teams or with accounting/enterprise back-office systems.

• Familiarity with Entity Framework Core, SignalR, or relevant .NET ecosystem tools.

• Exposure to CI/CD, basic infrastructure setup, and cloud/hybrid deployment models, even without dedicated DevOps support.

• A strong UI sensibility, capable of creating functional, user-friendly interfaces without a dedicated design team.

Why Join Us?

This is your unparalleled opportunity to lead the transformation of a trusted product into a modern, web-based powerhouse. You will take on a central role in shaping architecture, mentoring talent, and delivering a system that will support the business for years to come.

Join a "Great Place to Work UK" certified company , where you'll find extensive benefits alongside a supportive environment. Based at our East Croydon / Hybrid office, reporting directly to the Head of Software Development, you'll have massive career progression opportunities as our business grows and our software expertise is rapidly expanded across our wider operating companies.

If you're a highly technical engineering leader who thrives in small teams, enjoys wearing multiple hats, and knows how to deliver quality software under real-world constraints, we want to hear from you!

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Manager, Software Engineering
Overview
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our growing team of talented software engineers enabling Financial Institutions in their fight against money laundering and fraud. We craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.
As part of the application development team, your role will focus on creating and maintaining products across the whole lifecycle, through individual contribution and team leadership.
Role
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing guidance, and support to help them reach their full potential.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, scope, and timelines.
- Mentor team members on microservices design principles, patterns and technologies.
- Oversee the software development lifecycle, from planning, and design to implementation.
- Effectively lead sprint ceremonies, facilitate discussions, prioritize tasks, and drive consensus among team members during planning sessions.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team, encouraging alternate approaches.
- Identify and address technical debt, and performance bottlenecks, and maintain the stability of our solutions.
- Establish and enforce best practices for offerings, ensuring our solutions' scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.
- Ensure that production code meets high engineering standards i.e. high test coverage, e2e tests.
- Review team's code, identifying errors and improving performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within the team when required.
- Regularly update stakeholders and senior management on project status, risks, and opportunities.
- Evaluate employee performance, and set expectations and goals for direct reports.
- Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining microservices, primarily in Golang.
- Iterate design and build to solve bugs, improve performance, and add new features.
- Ensure resilience and reliability of services.
- Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
- Work with a large range of stakeholders to collect requirements and prioritise tasks (product manager, project management, analysts) build services (software engineers, testers) and deploy (devops, bizops, product ops).
- The role is hybrid, and the expectation is that you attend the office according to Mastercard policy.
All About You
First and foremost, you enjoy building products to solve real, pressing problems for your customers. You enjoy working in a team and have an interest in data science and how advanced algorithms may be deployed as product offerings.
You are experienced in team leadership and project delivery and adept at prioritising your own workload, alongside that of your teams
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of software engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
- Proficiency in software development, methodologies, and best practices.
- Fundamentally grounded in agile methodologies, specifically SCRUM.
- Experience managing multi-stakeholders in an organization.
- Demonstrable ability to write high quality Python/Golang and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
- You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs, and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
- Experience in building scalable distributed solutions.
- Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions built on Kafka and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal are a must.
- Listening, oral, written, and presentation skills and effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to drive results while being resourceful and tactful within a corporate environment.
- Keeps abreast of the evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.)
- Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance.
- You may have domain knowledge in payments, fraud, anti-money laundering, and machine learning.
- You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers, DevOps and security professionals.
- You have the ability to engage with best practices for code review, version control, and change control, balancing the need for a quality codebase with the unique and particular demands of scale-up stage software engineering.
- You have experience optimising solution performance with a constrained set of technologies.
- You have experience or are keen to engage with productionising machine learning technologies.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**Summary:**
We are looking for seasoned engineering leaders to join us in making the world more open and connected. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established companies. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines. You'll influence technical decision making, drive prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment.
**Required Skills:**
Director, Software Engineering Responsibilities:
1. You will be responsible for leading teams chartered with infrastructure innovations that enable software engineers, research scientists, data scientists, ML engineers to deploy solutions at planet scale and meet Meta's growing product and business needs
2. Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers
3. Provide both technical and organizational leadership
4. Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering efforts
5. Establish effective strategies and execute against them
6. Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion and innovation
7. Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
8. Significant technical industry experience
9. Extensive management experience
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
10. Graduate degree preferred
**Industry:** Internet

Software Engineering Manage r

Based : Offices in London and High Wycombe with hybrid working available

Term : Permanent, Full time

Salary : Negotiable + excellent benefits

The Role:

Our engineers are part of agile teams that typically include Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Test, Web and Application Engineers. Teams focus on a wide range of value streams such as creative music software, audio plug-ins, internal tools, embedded software and applications that augment our products.

Engineering Managers provide leadership and coaching to support and develop talent, to meet the growing needs of the business. They work closely with our Tech Leads to communicate strategy and nurture a shared engineering culture with a sense of unity and direction that allows teams to do their best work.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to look after 3 teams and up to 10 direct reports, including Software Testing. The Software team is currently pathing the way for future best practices within the wider group. As Engineering Manager you'll have an opportunity to directly contribute to the best practices that we choose to adopt.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the engineering capabilities of several Agile teams, including Software Testing.
• Guide the personal and professional development of engineers within your teams, through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback.
• Collaborating with Product Owners & Tech Leads to ensure teams are balancing quality and flow with delivery.
• Partner with Tech Leads in communicating strategy and foster inter-team collaboration.
• Support the teams by facilitating communication and bringing the wider context.
• Enable others to make technical choices by facilitating the exchange of ideas.
• Ensure we have the right skillset in the team, shaping our hiring best practices to attract the best talent.
• Support and improve the onboarding of new engineers into the team.
• Source and manage contractors and consultants.
• Get involved with diversity projects to help build an inclusive culture.
• Champion knowledge-sharing programmes across Agile teams, such as product demonstrations, lunch-and-learns, hack days and tech events.
• Follow the work of other agile teams and look for opportunities to adopt common practices and technologies.
• Ensure the team is equipped to achieve their goals, through training and equipment.
• Introduce and monitor metrics to help with decision making.
• Collaborate with the engineering management team to evolve our ways of working, designing team processes to create a great engineering culture at Focusrite.

Your Profile:

• You have exceptional communication skills. You are able to articulate complex problems and situations to a range of audiences.
• You have worked as a senior Software Engineer.
• You have a broad knowledge of the C++ language and ecosystem.
• You have experience managing or mentoring teams using Agile and DevOps best practices, in a culture of psychological safety.
• You have proven leadership skills and evidence of engagement with relevant communities.
• You take a human-centric approach, showing kindness and compassion.
• You have a passion for helping others to achieve ambitious goals.
• You are a strong advocate for technical excellence, automated testing, frequent deployments and agile processes.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, workplace nursery benefit, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

We are seeking a skilled Development Lead to join our dynamic software engineering team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, leadership abilities and a passion for driving innovation.

As a Development Lead, you will be responsible for guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, overseeing project delivery and contributing to the design of high quality software solutions for our industry leading platform. If this sounds like you, we look forward to reviewing your application.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of highly skilled and motivated Software Engineers, providing guidance, mentorship and support to foster their growth and career development.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to:

• Design and deliver high quality software solutions.
• Refine and provide estimations of the workload.
• Allocate resources effectively and monitor progress to ensure smooth sprint and release delivery.
• Escalate any technical issues, roadblocks or project risks.

- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback and enforce coding standards and software development best practices.

- Engage in sprint ceremonies while enabling productive discourse.

- Develop and refine technology choices, processes and standards as a key member of the Software Engineering management team.

- Recruit and onboard new Software Engineers.

- Spend time on hands-on software development as and when necessary, based on availability to do so.

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Strong management, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and delegate work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and handle competing deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Extensive relevant software development experience broadly ranging from front-end and back-end with depth as an accomplished engineer in C# .NET.

Experience and strong knowledge of:

o   C# .NET

o   ASP .NET MVC

o   LINQ and Entity Framework

o   SQL Server

o   Web APIs

o   Source control management

o   Unit tests

o   Web-based languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

o   Azure DevOps

o   Octopus

o   Issue tracking tools

o   Strong knowledge of OOP, SOLID, OWASP and Secure Coding principles.

• Excellent problem-solving skills

Desirable skills:

• Experience working for a tech business
• Insurance industry experience
• Knowledge of large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Benefits

• We offer a generous 28 days’ annual leave allowance, in addition to Bank Holidays. For every year of service you complete, we'll give you an additional day of holiday (maximum 5 days). 
• You also have the option of buying up to 5 additional holiday days per year.
• Hybrid working, we let you choose the days you work from the office.
• Participation in the company pension scheme.
• All employees are included in the company bonus scheme.
• Annual Learning & Development allowance of £1,250.
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning & Microsoft ESI Learning platforms.
• Monthly benefit allowance of £100 for you to put towards wellness activities.
• Group Income Protection.
• Life Cover.
• We are a member of the Employee Assistance Program, that supports our staff 24/7.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Active social committee who arrange events throughout the year.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

You must be eligible to work in the UK for this role. We are unable to provide sponsorship.

We are not partnering with external agencies for this role, so please apply directly.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance: