Lead .NET Developer

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Overview

We are seeking a Lead .NET Developer to join a dynamic payments organization in a hybrid capacity. This role involves driving the development and scaling of a high-throughput payments platform, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and leading engineering best practices while remaining hands-on with coding tasks. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in evolving the platform architecture to support secure, scalable, and resilient systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of high-performance .NET services powering a global payments platform.
  • Build and scale event-driven microservices running in Azure.
  • Drive best practices across architecture, coding standards, observability, and reliability.
  • Work closely with product teams to design API-driven payment and partner integrations.
  • Mentor and support engineers across the team while contributing hands-on to critical systems.
  • Help evolve a scalable, distributed architecture capable of handling high transaction volumes.
  • Contribute to improving engineering velocity, delivery quality, and platform resilience.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building production systems with .NET / C#.
  • Experience building cloud-native systems in Azure.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Service Bus, Event Grid, messaging systems).
  • Experience with Azure Cosmos DB.
  • Proven experience building distributed systems and scalable APIs.
  • Experience working on payments platforms, fintech systems, or high-throughput transactional platforms.
  • Strong understanding of system design, reliability, and performance at scale.
  • Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on in development.
SkillsC#, Azure, Kafka
LocationLondon Area
TypeHybrid
Rate
£700/day
SourceLinkedIn
RecruiterVirtueTech Recruitment Group
Posted13/07/26