Software Team Lead

at  Cathcart Technology

World-Class Software House that develop SaaS based products for the Healthcare Industry with a variety of modern technologies are looking for a skilled Software Team Lead (.Net) to join one of their Agile teams in Edinburgh - Hybrid working (2 days onsite).
The organisation are well-known and have a very strong technical environment and reputation - everyone lives and breathes modern technology here. They develop large-scale SaaS products designed to improve efficiency and accountability within the healthcare industry and they have very quickly become a household name and a market leader within their field.
They have multiple development squads, with each looking after one or two different products for the company. They have several market leading products now that are widely used by millions. This role would involve joining a squad that has been tasked to design and develop a new SaaS product with the aim to provide their customers more insight into their data. In this team you’ll be working with a really modern tech stack; .Net Core, Azure (and many of its services), Angular + TypeScript, Microservices and more.
In this role you’ll be working alongside a Lead Software Engineer, that will look after everything on the project from a technical leadership point of view, and you’ll be responsible for the people leadership aspect. You’d be the direct line manager for a small Agile Development team (circa 3-6) made up of Software and Automation Engineers.
You’d be responsible for managing, leading and developing the Engineers in your team - Assisting them day to day, training, coaching and mentoring, 1-1’s, coming up with development plans and so much more. However, you’ll also spend about 50% of your time doing hands on development work - so you can keep your technical skills sharp and up to date. Which also includes being involved in technical/architectural decisions for the project.
They place a really strong importance on doing software development correctly here (from SOLID principles, Design Patterns, Restful API’s, Unit-Testing, Test-Driven Development), part of your role will involve ensuring your team are following these practices.

You’ll ideally have experience with most of the following;

• Previous Team Lead/Manager experience within a Software Setting
• Modern .NET/C#
• Cloud Services (ideally Azure)
• Working with Databases (ideally SQL Server)
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript (ideally Angular)

The following is highly desirable;

• Microservices
• Elastic Search or Apache Kafka
• DevOps tooling

Their offices are based in central Edinburgh where they support hybrid working, you’ll be expected onsite about twice a week so are looking for Engineers that are already local to Edinburgh. They offer very flexible hours though, so you can have a lot of flexibility around start and finish times.
Salary for this role is roughly £65k to £70k (could be scope for a little more). On top of this, they also offer a strong package of benefits. Which includes; 33 days holiday, pension, private medical and dental cover, long-term sickness leave, critical illness cover, life insurance and much more.
If this opportunity sounds of interest and you match most of the criteria, please do apply or drop Doug at Cathcart Technology a messag

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