Job description
Lead Software Engineer (.NET / React)
Company Overview
OpenSource is a founder-led recruitment partner. Built by people who have sat on both sides of the hiring table, they specialize in hiring across the full product and engineering lifecycle.
Job Summary
A growing SaaS business is looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to join a product engineering team building and scaling customer-facing platforms used across Europe. This is a technical leadership role where you will lead a small team of engineers while remaining actively involved in architecture, development, and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a small team.
- Drive technical delivery and support the team day to day.
- Contribute hands on across backend and platform engineering.
- Collaborate with Product and Customer teams to scope and deliver features.
- Identify technical risks, blockers, and dependencies early.
- Support platform modernisation and cloud native engineering initiatives.
- Help define engineering best practices, tooling, and quality standards.
- Work closely with Architecture and DevOps teams on long term technical direction.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong commercial experience building software with C# and .NET.
- Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and containerised environments.
- Comfortable working across architecture and delivery.
- Experience operating within product led or SaaS businesses.
- Strong communication skills and ownership mentality.
- EU/EEA work authorisation required.
- Ability to start immediately.
Location
Berlin, Germany (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Employment Type
Full Time
