Lead Developer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Wigan
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£75,000 / year
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

C# .NET SQL JavaScript Git Agile TDD OOP

FULL DESCRIPTION

Lead Developer

Global Tech Company | Agile Delivery Teams | Hands-On | UK-Based

  • Salary: £65,000 to £75,000
  • Location: Wigan
  • Type: Permanent

What you'll do

  • Lead the design, development and maintenance of software applications, ensuring quality, efficiency and performance
  • Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team on tooling, CI/CD and deployment process improvements
  • Produce clean, maintainable, scalable code
  • Debug, resolve issues, fix bugs and optimise performance across the stack
  • Provide technical direction to the team through code reviews and mentoring
  • Stay up to date with emerging technologies and apply learning to improve development processes
  • Create and maintain accurate documentation for design, code, tests and user-facing technical materials where required
  • Act as a liaison between Engineering and Senior Management, communicating progress, risks and technical challenges

Who you are

  • Strong commercial experience with C# .NET
  • Solid SQL/MySQL experience
  • Proven experience developing enterprise-grade single-page applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with strong expertise in modern frameworks
  • Confident with Git and source control best practices
  • Strong grasp of OOP principles, design patterns, software design and architecture
  • Experience with TDD
  • Proven experience working in an Agile environment
  • Excellent collaborator and communicator, with a problem-solving mindset

Key perks

  • Salary: £75k+ bonus
  • Hybrid working with 2 day in Manchester office (must be based in the UK)
  • Flexi time & much, much more...
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