Lead Software Developer

The Opportunity We are looking for an Engineering Lead / Engineering Manager to join a growing technology team in Liverpool.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technical leadership with hands-on software development. You'll be responsible for leading an established team of Software Developers and a QA Tester, helping to drive technical direction, oversee delivery and support the continued development of both the team and its technology.
This isn't a purely hands-off management position. You'll remain close to the code, contribute to development where needed and help solve technical challenges, whilst also taking ownership of the wider engineering function.
You'll be joining a team with an existing group of developers, with further investment planned across software development and QA.

Key Responsibilities Team Leadership: Lead, support and develop a team of approximately 4–5 Software Developers and a QA Tester, creating an environment where people can perform, learn and progress.
Hands-on Development: Remain actively involved in software development, contributing to coding, code reviews and technical problem-solving.
Technical Direction: Help shape the team's technical approach, development standards and longer-term engineering roadmap.
Project Delivery: Take ownership of development timelines, ensuring projects and deliverables are planned effectively and deadlines are met.
Workload Management: Coordinate priorities across the team, allocate resources appropriately and manage competing demands.
Quality & Standards: Promote good development practices, maintain code quality and ensure appropriate testing and QA processes are followed.
Mentoring & Development: Provide technical guidance, coaching and support to developers, helping build capability across the team.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the wider business and key stakeholders to understand requirements, communicate progress and ensure technical projects align with business objectives.
Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve development processes, engineering efficiency and the overall performance of the team.

Technical Environment The team works across a Microsoft-focused technology environment, including:
C# / .NET
React
Angular
TypeScript
Microsoft Azure
Experience across the entire technology stack isn't expected. We're interested in someone with a strong software engineering background who can bring technical knowledge, leadership experience and the ability to adapt to the technologies already in place.
What We're Looking For Previous experience in a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, Development Manager or similar position.
A strong background in software development, ideally within a C#/.NET environment.
Experience leading, mentoring or managing a team of developers.
Comfortable balancing hands-on coding with wider leadership and management responsibilities.
Experience managing development projects, workloads and delivery deadlines.
Strong understanding of software development best practices, code quality and testing.
Confident communicating with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Someone proactive who enjoys improving processes, developing people and getting involved in the technical detail.

Why Consider This Opportunity? This is an opportunity to take ownership of an established engineering team while playing an important role in its continued growth.
You'll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, develop the people around you and remain involved in the development work itself.
For someone who enjoys the variety of leading a team without moving completely away from the technical side, this could be a really interesting next step.

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