Lead Developer

Bridge Technology Partners are working exclusively for a FTSE100 Retailer to help them grow their Software Engineering team.

Job Title: Lead Developer

Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Full-time/permanent - hybrid working (WFH 3 days per week)

Salary to £70,000pa + bonus and benefits

Do you want to be part of an exciting and innovative brand in the retail sector. Our client is growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in the business. Technology drives what they do. As they're going through a huge change as a business, they need a high-performing team who are committed to driving IT and systems forward. 

As a Lead Developer, you’ll be an important part of this. Your focus will be on developing and supporting systems that ensure their operation continues to remain unrivalled.  You will be working in a distributed microservice architecture, developing and supporting code in around 15+ services. These services communicate in a loosely coupled fashion using Azure Service Bus, operational data is stored in Azure Cosmos DB a highly scalable NoSQL database and aggregations for reporting and unique business requirements are stored in Azure SQL Server. 

The team develops NuGet packages for commonly reused code and all services follow domain-driven design and are structured in line with the clean/onion architecture, aiming to abstract away dependencies and make the code easier to maintain and change. The team also contributes to open source projects which are used in a lot of our services. 

The department hosts the majority of their services in AKS, with a few services running in Azure App Service & Azure functions. The team are also keen on observability, looking at the cutting edge of monitoring solutions, making use of open telemetry.

Tech stack wise the Team uses:

• .NET 8
• Blazor
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Cosmos DB and SQL server
• Kuberenetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Open Telemetry 

So if you’re an expert in this field, have strong communication skills and considerable C#/.NET knowledge, work with initiative and can build great working relationships within the business, this is the place for you – and your career.