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Lead – C#/.NET, React & AI
£90,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Central Wimbledon | Hybrid – 2 days per week
We’re partnering with an established global technology business looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of a major SaaS platform.
This is for someone who still wants to engineer.
- Not a people-management position disguised as a technical role.
- Not endless architecture meetings.
- And not a legacy .NET position with an “AI” badge added to the advert.
You’ll operate at the senior end of a modern Product Engineering organisation – solving difficult technical problems, influencing architecture and engineering standards, mentoring experienced developers and helping determine how AI-assisted engineering should be used responsibly across the software lifecycle.
The opportunity
You’ll have significant influence over how secure, resilient and maintainable software is designed and delivered across backend services, APIs, frontend applications and distributed systems.
You’ll challenge existing approaches, help evolve systems towards more modular and independently deployable components, and make pragmatic architectural decisions based on genuine business and engineering outcomes.
Crucially, AI is becoming part of the engineering environment rather than sitting in a separate innovation team.
You’ll help explore how coding agents and AI-assisted development can improve analysis, design, implementation, testing, debugging and delivery – while ensuring engineering judgement, security and quality remain firmly in the hands of the engineers.
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Where AI enters the product itself, you’ll help establish the controls required to take it into production responsibly, including validation, guardrails, permissions, observability, evaluation, failure behaviour and appropriate human oversight.
What you'll bring
You’ll be an accomplished Software Engineer who has designed and delivered complex production systems and is comfortable having genuine technical influence across an engineering organisation.
We’re particularly interested in experience across:
- C#/.NET and modern backend engineering
- TypeScript with React, Angular or Vue
- APIs, distributed systems and service-based architectures
- AWS or another major cloud platform
- SQL Server/PostgreSQL and relational data modelling
- Docker, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
- Event-driven architecture
- CI/CD, automated testing and modern engineering practices
- Production ownership, reliability and observability
- Technical leadership and mentoring other engineers
The underlying brief prioritises strong C#/.NET experience but can consider engineers from another modern backend language who are willing to work primarily within the Microsoft stack.
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You do not need to be an AI Engineer.
We're looking for an exceptional Software Engineer who understands that the way software is built is changing and wants to be at the forefront of that change.
Experience with technologies or concepts such as:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic Claude
- Amazon Bedrock
- LLM APIs
- Coding agents
- Structured outputs
- Tool calling
- RAG
- Semantic search
- Model routing
- AI evaluation
would be highly relevant.
However, we're far more interested in engineering principles, judgement and learning ability than whether you've worked with a particular AI framework.
Why consider it?
This is a chance to have genuine technical influence without moving away from engineering.
You'll be working on a substantial global SaaS product, helping modernise architecture, improving how engineering teams build and ship software, mentoring strong developers and influencing how an established technology organisation adopts AI in production.
You get the scale and complexity of an established global technology business, combined with an engineering environment that is actively changing how it builds products.
If you're a senior engineer who wants your next move to be about technical ownership, modern Product Engineering and where AI takes software development next, this is worth a conversation.
£90,000 + bonus + benefits
Central Wimbledon
Hybrid – 2 days per week
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