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/MySQL JavaScript Git OOP TDD Agile HTML/CSS

FULL DESCRIPTION

Lead Developer at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Company - Wigan - Permanent - Hybrid - £65,000 to £75,000

Job Description

Millions of customers. One proprietary platform. Infinite possibilities. This global technology business has just completed a massive migration to their own platform, and now, the stage is set for scale, innovation, and speed. Products are being built at pace, technology is unlocking new capabilities, and the experiences delivered to customers worldwide are next-level. As a Lead Developer, you’ll be actively involved in building and delivering new functionality, while guiding a team to produce high quality, scalable software. Working closely with Platform Engineering, Product, Design, Test and Project Management, you’ll help shape technical direction, improve processes, and ensure delivery is on time and to agreed standards.

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 mentioring
  • 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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