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x3 Senior / Principal Software Engineers – .NET, Azure, SQL 🌳🌳🌳 Scotland / UK Remote | AI-Driven SaaS Environment | £65,000–£85,000 + Benefits 🚀 High-growth, award-recognised SaaS organisation continuing significant investment in product and engineering capability. This senior hire will play a key role in evolving a complex, data-rich platform used by enterprise and professional services customers. The position combines hands-on engineering with technical influence — contributing to architectural direction, delivery standards, and long-term platform scalability. 🌳 The Opportunity This role sits within a collaborative product engineering environment focused on: 🌳 Designing and delivering scalable back-end features end-to-end 🌳 Improving performance, reliability, and maintainability across a mature codebase 🌳 Supporting prioritisation, scoping, and technical planning 🌳 Analysing and instrumenting production systems 🌳 Contributing to best practice across engineering teams 🌳 Mentoring and raising technical standards 🌳 Navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving scale-up setting This is suited to an experienced Senior or Principal-level engineer comfortable influencing both technical direction and delivery outcomes. 🌳 Technical Environment Strong experience expected in: 🌳 .NET (Framework and/or Core) 🌳 Azure Cloud Platform 🌳 Azure SQL / MS SQL Server 🌳 Performance monitoring and instrumentation 🌳 Data-intensive systems Additional exposure beneficial: 🌳 Search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Elastic, NoSQL) 🌳 Cloud-based search platforms 🌳 Data pipelines and large-scale datasets 🌳 SQL views and query optimisation 🌳 Candidate Profile 🌳 Senior-level back-end engineering background 🌳 Experience working within cloud-hosted SaaS environments 🌳 Comfortable working in data-heavy, high-volume systems 🌳 Strong problem decomposition and analytical skills 🌳 Confident providing technical leadership and mentoring 🌳 Collaborative communicator who can challenge constructively 🌳 Comfortable operating within evolving requirements 🌳 Package & Benefits 🌳 £65,000–£85000 🌳 Annual personal development budget 🌳 Generous holiday allowance (rising with tenure) 🌳 Paid sabbatical after long service 🌳 Private healthcare 🌳 Income protection and life cover 🌳 Matched pension 🌳 Paid volunteering allowance 🌳 Flexible hybrid working model (Scotland preferred, UK remote considered) 🌳 Working Model 🌳 Flexible 37.5-hour week 🌳 Hybrid or remote 🌳 Outcome-focused culture 🌳 Collaborative engineering environment This is an opportunity to join a scaling SaaS organisation at a pivotal stage of growth, contributing to architectural evolution and technical excellence within a data-driven platform. 📌 Please ensure CVs highlight: 🌳 Senior back-end development experience 🌳 Azure cloud delivery 🌳 Performance or data-heavy system exposure 🌳 Technical leadership or mentoring experience

x3 Senior / Principal Software Engineers – .NET, Azure, SQL 🌳🌳🌳 Scotland / UK Remote | AI-Driven SaaS Environment | £65,000–£85,000 + Benefits 🚀 High-growth, award-recognised SaaS organisation continuing significant investment in product and engineering capability. This senior hire will play a key role in evolving a complex, data-rich platform used by enterprise and professional services customers. The position combines hands-on engineering with technical influence — contributing to architectural direction, delivery standards, and long-term platform scalability. 🌳 The Opportunity This role sits within a collaborative product engineering environment focused on: 🌳 Designing and delivering scalable back-end features end-to-end 🌳 Improving performance, reliability, and maintainability across a mature codebase 🌳 Supporting prioritisation, scoping, and technical planning 🌳 Analysing and instrumenting production systems 🌳 Contributing to best practice across engineering teams 🌳 Mentoring and raising technical standards 🌳 Navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving scale-up setting This is suited to an experienced Senior or Principal-level engineer comfortable influencing both technical direction and delivery outcomes. 🌳 Technical Environment Strong experience expected in: 🌳 .NET (Framework and/or Core) 🌳 Azure Cloud Platform 🌳 Azure SQL / MS SQL Server 🌳 Performance monitoring and instrumentation 🌳 Data-intensive systems Additional exposure beneficial: 🌳 Search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Elastic, NoSQL) 🌳 Cloud-based search platforms 🌳 Data pipelines and large-scale datasets 🌳 SQL views and query optimisation 🌳 Candidate Profile 🌳 Senior-level back-end engineering background 🌳 Experience working within cloud-hosted SaaS environments 🌳 Comfortable working in data-heavy, high-volume systems 🌳 Strong problem decomposition and analytical skills 🌳 Confident providing technical leadership and mentoring 🌳 Collaborative communicator who can challenge constructively 🌳 Comfortable operating within evolving requirements 🌳 Package & Benefits 🌳 £65,000–£85000 🌳 Annual personal development budget 🌳 Generous holiday allowance (rising with tenure) 🌳 Paid sabbatical after long service 🌳 Private healthcare 🌳 Income protection and life cover 🌳 Matched pension 🌳 Paid volunteering allowance 🌳 Flexible hybrid working model (Scotland preferred, UK remote considered) 🌳 Working Model 🌳 Flexible 37.5-hour week 🌳 Hybrid or remote 🌳 Outcome-focused culture 🌳 Collaborative engineering environment This is an opportunity to join a scaling SaaS organisation at a pivotal stage of growth, contributing to architectural evolution and technical excellence within a data-driven platform. 📌 Please ensure CVs highlight: 🌳 Senior back-end development experience 🌳 Azure cloud delivery 🌳 Performance or data-heavy system exposure 🌳 Technical leadership or mentoring experience

A leading sports fashion retailer based in Bury is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to oversee the design and execution of technology solutions.