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Kyckr

Development Team Lead

Kyckr

. Lead a small team of four developers while remaining a hands-on senior engineer .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in .NET (C#) and SQL Server development, with a strong focus on system design, architecture, and integration of third-party APIs. Proven leadership in mentoring engineers and fostering a high-ownership engineering culture while balancing hands-on coding and team management.

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Hands-On .NET (C#) DevelopmentSQL Server ExpertiseAI-Assisted Development ToolingSystem Design and ArchitectureCI/CD and DevOps Practices

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Hard Skills
.NET (C#)SQL ServerRESTful APIsAzure FunctionsAzure DevOpsYAML PipelinesDockerKubernetesReactAgentic Development
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringProblem-SolvingCommunicationCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft TeamsConfluenceJiraClaude CodeGitHub Copilot
Industry Keywords
FinTechHealthTechGovTechRegulated Industry

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureDockerJavaScriptKubernetesReactSQLTypeScriptVault.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead a small team of four developers while remaining a hands-on senior engineer
  • Write clean, testable, production code in .NET (C#) and SQL Server across the monorepo and Registry Hub services
  • Take on complex and ambiguous technical work and set standards for design, code quality, and testing
  • Own significant features and services end-to-end, from design through delivery and operation
  • Lead architecture and design discussions and communicate technical trade-offs
  • Drive Claude Code and agentic development and QA workflows for code generation, refactoring, testing, code review, regression checking, and code analysis
  • Define and improve prompt engineering practices, agent configurations, and guardrails
  • Evaluate and introduce new AI tooling and support wider engineering adoption
  • Measure the impact of AI-assisted development on velocity and quality
  • Design and deliver integrations with third-party registry APIs and data sources across 120 countries
  • Establish resilient, observable, and maintainable integration patterns, including retries, error handling, rate limiting, and monitoring
  • Work with product and customer-facing teams on customer system and workflow integrations
  • Line-manage four developers through one-to-ones, performance management, and career development planning
  • Mentor and coach engineers through code review and collaboration
  • Own team delivery through planning, prioritisation, and blocker removal with product and the CTO
  • Foster a high-trust, high-ownership engineering culture and help recruit and onboard engineers
  • Champion testing and safe, repeatable Azure DevOps CI/CD deployments
  • Work asynchronously with a distributed team across three time zones using Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Jira
  • Document technical decisions, architecture, and runbooks
  • Collaborate with product, compliance, and customer success to deliver practical solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7–10 years of professional software development experience, with strong, current hands-on skills in .NET / C#
  • Solid experience with SQL Server: queries, stored procedures, and relational data modelling
  • Proven experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party systems and data sources
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure services (Azure Functions, App Services, Service Bus, Blob Storage, Key Vault, APIM)
  • Demonstrable experience leading, mentoring, or line-managing engineers
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
  • Strong system design and architecture judgement, with the ability to make and clearly explain pragmatic trade-offs
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills across a distributed system
  • Strong written and verbal communication for a remote, distributed team
  • Comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with leadership responsibilities (an 80/20 coding-to-leadership split)
  • Experience configuring or operating agentic AI workflows for development or QA at a team level
  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices (Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, automated deployments)
  • Experience with message-driven and event-driven architectures (Azure Service Bus, queues)
  • Familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and Kubernetes
  • Front-end experience with React or other modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
  • Experience working in a regulated industry (FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech, or similar)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote-first with periodic in person collaboration days
  • Annual leave + UK bank holidays (25 days + 8 bank holidays)
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
  • Supportive family & sick leave policies
  • Best-in-class pension contributions
  • Annual training budget
  • Laptop + home office equipment provided as required
  • Work from Anywhere: up to 20 days/year (policy conditions apply)
  • Wellbeing programme + quarterly socials