Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Leadership and Core Engineering

• Substantial experience delivering production software, including demonstrable technical leadership within a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Experience owning complex technical decisions from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, and live operation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, coach engineers, resolve technical disagreements constructively, and create clarity in complex or ambiguous delivery environments.
• Strong software-design fundamentals, including secure coding, maintainability, automated testing, observability, performance, scalability, and operational resilience.
• Ability to make and communicate proportionate architectural decisions and establish practical engineering standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to engineers, delivery colleagues, senior leaders, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Experience working in iterative product-delivery environments and adapting engineering practices to improve flow, feedback, quality, and predictability.
• Experience supporting production services, including incident response, root-cause analysis, monitoring, service improvement, and technical-debt management.

Back End Engineering (Required)

• Deep knowledge of C#, ASP.NET Core, and the Microsoft.NET ecosystem.
• Strong experience designing and delivering secure REST APIs, background services, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging, asynchronous processing, and appropriate service-boundary design.
• Experience with relational data, SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, transaction management, data modelling, and integration patterns.
• Experience designing cloud-native services for Microsoft Azure, including appropriate use of compute, storage, messaging, identity, configuration, networking, and managed data services.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, secure API design, secrets management, dependency management, and common application-security risks.
• Experience with automated unit, integration, contract, component, and performance testing.
• Experience implementing structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, monitoring, and practical operational diagnostics.
• Ability to provide technical leadership for back-end architecture, integration design, data concerns, service reliability, and performance.

Front End Engineering (Nice to Have for Full Stack Candidates)

• Experience with modern React and TypeScript development.
• Understanding of component and application architecture, state and data management, routing, forms, API integration, and reusable design patterns.
• Experience creating accessible and responsive user interfaces that meet appropriate usability and accessibility standards.
• Experience with automated front-end testing, including unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Understanding of browser security, authentication flows, dependency management, performance optimisation, error handling, logging, and client-side observability.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build, package-management, linting, formatting, code-quality, and delivery tooling.
• For Full Stack candidates, the ability to contribute to front-end architecture, engineering standards, design-system adoption, and user-experience implementation.

DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure Knowledge

• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and the ability to collaborate effectively on the design, maintenance, and troubleshooting of delivery pipelines.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, including pull-request validation, builds, automated tests, security checks, packaging, releases, and deployments.
• Understanding of YAML-based pipelines, reusable workflows and templates, pipeline artefacts, environments, approvals, quality gates, branching controls, and release strategies.
• Experience contributing to the deployment and operation of applications and supporting services on Microsoft Azure.
• Awareness of Azure identity and access management, service connections, secrets management, monitoring, networking, security, resilience, scalability, and cost considerations.
• Working knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles sufficient to understand, review, and contribute to application-related infrastructure changes.
• Understanding of Terraform modules, variables, outputs, state, plan and apply workflows, validation, and infrastructure-change review, with specialist guidance available from the Platform team.
• Ability to work with the Architecture and Platform teams to integrate application changes, automated tests, static analysis, dependency checks, security scanning, and policy controls into delivery pipelines.
• Ability to diagnose application-related build and deployment issues, engage the appropriate specialists, and contribute to improvements in pipeline reliability, speed, security, and developer usability.
• Sound judgement about when a decision can be handled within the squad and when support or approval is required from the Architecture or Platform team.