Application Team Lead

Hybrid Working (1 day per week in Leicestershire Office) 28 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays £60,000 - £75,000 per annum About us e-bate is an advanced B2B, SaaS Fintech solution for Rebate Management with a growing corporate customer base. We provide innovative software solutions to help businesses efficiently manage and optimise their B2B rebate programs. Our platform, built on AWS infrastructure, empowers our retail, distribution and manufacturing clients to streamline rebate calculation processes, enhance financial visibility and maximise profitability. Role Overview e-bate is seeking a hands on application team lead to manage day to day engineering team capabilities. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with C# and .NET applications, have experience with working with enterprise technologies and teams with knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services. We are seeking a candidate who is happy to be focused on the day to day detail and will continue to focus on management, improvements and scalability of the application as the business grows and we seek to separate out other teams and competency areas. You will work alongside delivery capabilities and infrastructure management as the business grows. Key Responsibilities • Hands-on programming to help resolve issues, building key components and guide others. • Code reviews and maintaining coding standards. • Ensure versioning and branching is appropriately managed by the team. • Ensure the application team are aligned with delivering against the roadmap outlined by the CTO. • Management and triaging of support and maintenance issues for the team. • Management and planning of the releases which are part of each sprint. • Technical hiring and staff assessment. • Team skills development and individual engineer KPIs. • Supporting development of key project deliverables and application side architectural decisions led by the CTO. • Participate in Sprint meetings. • Can respond to specific customer queries around Support cases to support non-technical members of staff and be customer facing if required. • Identify and make recommendations to make improvements to release management to improve KPIs • Support colleagues helping to forecast key deliverables. • Recommend improvements to developer tooling. Competencies • Experience as a senior C# /.NET FullStack Engineer • Demonstrated knowledge and experience with application side architecture and architecture considerations and design patterns. • Familiarity with microservices and data intensive applications and architectures. • Knowledge of AWS services such as S3, Aurora Postgres, Fargate, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, SQS, Redis, Cognito, KMS. • Knowledge of .NET frameworks such as Entity Framework and Dapper • Knowledge of and experience with event-driven architectures, serverless and data-intensive architectures at scale is strongly preferred. • Knowledge of testing frameworks and approaches, and standards for developers. • Knowledge of application side security requirements and best practice approaches. • Knowledge and experience with versioning tools, repositories such as ADO, Github. You may have experience of the following: Software Development Team Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Application Development Manager, Senior Application Developer Lead, Lead .NET Developer, Technical Lead - Application Development, Lead Software Architect, Lead Backend Engineer, Lead C# Developer, Lead Full Stack Developer, etc. REF-(Apply online only)