Lead Developer C# and Go

Broster Buchanan are partnered with a quickly growing SaaS business who are looking to add a Lead C#/Go Developer to their IT team. This would suit someone with a broad set of technical skills, who is highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. This role will lead the technical direction of the SaaS platform, having the ownership to decide where you and your team can best deliver value. This could be from modularising some of the monolithic architecture, spearheading greenfield projects or employing growth engineering strategies.

The role offers mostly remote working with a requirement to be willing to be onsite at their London, Chester or Worcester offices 1-2 times per month. A salary of £70k - £90k is on offer for the right person.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of the SaaS platform as we scale to support over 100,000 customers. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work
• Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
• Mentor and coach others to help them be the best they can be
• Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases
• Take responsibility for platform health and observability, using our own data to understand user behaviour and drive product development

Requirements:

• A strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language. C# and Go are used heavily across their products
• Experience working with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code. We run on Kubernetes in GCP
• Strong knowledge of database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, MongoDB)
• Previous experience of being the primary technical leader in a team and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders
• A passion for promoting engineering excellence in those around you through coaching and guidance
• An understanding of different architectural and design patterns, and an appreciation of when to use them
• Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practices

Beneficial:

• Understanding of GitOps and experience with tools such as Argo CD
• Previous experience in integrating new services and tools, such as Salesforce, Segment, HubSpot, Stripe is beneficial
• Experience with SQL and data warehousing/pipelining tools such as BigQuery, Airflow, etc
• Proven experience in navigating and transforming legacy codebases, as well as leading greenfield projects