Lead Software Engineer (.Net) - 6 Month Contract

at  CreateFuture

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK’s most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country.
We are a team of creators - whether that’s code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, Adidas, Natwest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, to name just a few.
Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don’t just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.

• Designing and developing backend services and APIs, including interaction with databases with a focus on readable, maintainable and well-tested code
• Integrating with third-party APIs such as payment gateways
• Creating associated API documentation and working in partnership with developers consuming your APIs and services
• Working as part of a cross-functional scrum team and leading with your expertise to drive the overall success of a project
• Implementing engineering best practices across your project team

• Mentoring and sharing your knowledge with team members

  We’d love to talk if you have:

• Understanding of enterprise-level software design patterns

• C# ASP.NET, MVC, LINQ JavaScript and Entity Framework
• Experience migrating applications from .Net 4.7 to Modern .Net
• A solid understanding of SQL and relational database design and implementation of modern database-related technologies
• Experience with GitHub and good CI/CD practices
• Advocating and ensuring consistency when it comes to using engineering best practices, clean code, and unit testing
• Experience leading a cross-functional development team (using Agile practices)
• An ability to communicate technical concepts with both technical and non technical audiences