Development Team Lead

Development Team Lead | Up to £90,000

Manchester | Hybrid

The customer sees the journey. You’ll lead the engineers making it work.

This FinTech has put technology at the centre of how it does business. The next step needs a Development Team Lead who can get good work out of people, challenge technical decisions and keep customer-facing software moving forward.

Around 70% leadership, 30% hands-on. You’ll have time to develop your engineers, work through delivery priorities and give the team clear direction. You’ll also stay close enough to the code to contribute properly when a difficult change or design decision needs your experience.

The platform is built around C#, .NET and Azure, with APIs, event-driven services and distributed systems behind the customer experience. There’s plenty to get involved in, from improving existing journeys to shaping how new features are built.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the team day to day, making priorities clear and dealing with the things slowing delivery down.
• Coaching engineers through code reviews, design discussions and regular feedback.
• Working with Product and the wider business to turn customer needs into sensible technical delivery.
• Keeping engineering standards high: TDD, SOLID principles, maintainable code and testing that gives the team confidence to release.
• Staying hands-on with development and helping the team work through complex problems.
• Exploring where AI can improve development, testing and review, with the judgement to check what it produces.

What we need from you:

• Experience leading software engineers, with examples of how you’ve helped people improve.
• Strong C#/.NET, Azure and API experience, including event-driven or distributed systems.
• A background delivering customer-facing software, where usability, performance and reliability matter.
• Confidence having the difficult conversations, whether that’s feedback for an engineer or challenging an unrealistic delivery expectation.
• Someone who still enjoys engineering and wants leadership to be the bigger part of their job.

What you’ll get:

Up to £90,000, hybrid working in Manchester and ownership of a team whose work customers use every day. There’s room to influence how the team builds, how it develops and what good engineering looks like across the business.