.Net Lead ( Scale Up )
9 days ago
Belfast
.NET Lead Location: Belfast, Hybrid Type: Permanent Compensation: Competitive with bonus and benefits About the Company A home-grown Northern Ireland success story in e-commerce technology, this organisation builds modern digital products that power convenience brands at serious scale. Their platforms underpin real supply chain and operational decision-making, supporting physical sites across the UK and beyond. The mission is simple: identify the pain, build the remedy, and scale it. Why This Role This is a chance to lead a small, high-performing .NET team shipping features used daily by real customers. Youll have ownership, clear product direction, and a leadership team that values pragmatic engineering and fast feedback loops. With the platform expanding into new customers and international markets, its an ideal time to join and influence the next chapter. What You Will Do Lead, mentor, and develop a team of .NET engineers, setting standards and elevating engineering quality Design and build services powering ordering, payments, delivery workflows, and analytics Own technical decision-making across architecture, performance, reliability, and security Work closely with product, design, and data teams to translate operational problems into simple, effective software Champion clean code, automated testing, and continuous delivery practices Guide the platforms evolution towards modular, cloud-native architectures Review code, support career development, and contribute to hiring plans Collaborate with external stakeholders including retail partners and university research teams Technology Environment C Sharp and .NET 6 or newer ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services SQL Server and modern ORM patterns; exposure to alternative datastores is beneficial Event-driven integrations, messaging, and queuing Azure preferred; AWS experience welcomed Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code Frontend awareness for API design; React or similar is a plus Observability tooling: logging, metrics, alerting What You Will Bring Proven experience leading .NET engineering teams delivering production-grade systems Strong architectural capability spanning domain modelling, API design, and data design A history of improving code quality, reliability, and delivery flow Comfort working in a product-led environment with rapid iteration Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders A passion for building software that solves real customer problems Nice to Have Payments, order orchestration, or logistics experience Knowledge of food safety or allergen information systems Awareness of compliance and regulated data handling Experience with cloud performance tuning and cost optimisation Whats On Offer Meaningful ownership of a live platform used at scale Progression path toward Engineering Manager or Architect Hybrid working from a modern Belfast office Dedicated training budget and time set aside for learning A supportive, delivery-focused culture that values initiative Interview Process Intro call with Talent and the Hiring Manager Technical conversation and practical design discussion with senior engineers Final culture and values conversation with leadership How to Apply Based within commuting distance of Belfast? Message Ryan Quinn on LinkedIn to learn more and share your CV. Skills: .Net Azure SQL