Full Stack Engineer, City of Edinburgh

Tech Lead Full Stack

FTE: 12 months | Location: Edinburgh

Lead a cross‑functional full‑stack pod to design, build and migrate enterprise features from Angular to React on the front end and .NET Core on the back end deployed on Microsoft Azure. Own end‑to‑end delivery quality, architecture implementation, DevSecOps performance and maintainability while mentoring engineers and partnering closely with Product, UX and API teams to deliver a unified scalable global platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture – Translate business epics into modular React front ends and .NET Core microservices/APIs selecting appropriate Azure services (App Service, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, SQL, App Insights).

  Define and enforce front‑end patterns, component architecture, Redux‑RTK, routing, accessibility, performance budgets and back‑end patterns (DDD, CQRS, MediatR, repository, async I/O). Own API contracts and integration patterns with Voyager, SCRIP and third‑party systems, driving API governance, versioning, throttling and security. Champion security by design.

• Delivery & DevSecOps – Set up and optimize CI/CD in Azure DevOps multi‑stage pipelines, environments, approvals, blue‑green or canary strategies, containerization with Docker, Kubernetes/AKS where applicable. Implement automated testing. Establish observability (App Insights logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, error budgets, SLOs), drive cost and performance optimizations on Azure.

• People Leadership & Ways of Working – Lead sprint planning, story slicing, estimation and risk/dependency management, unblock teams and uphold delivery predictability. Conduct code‑design reviews, teach best practices and provide structured growth paths for engineers, front‑end, back‑end, QA. Collaborate with UX, API Architects, POBA and SRE/DevOps; present architectural decisions to senior stakeholders. Promote AI‑assisted SDLC (e.g., GitHub Copilot prompt patterns) to accelerate design, code, tests and reviews.

Core Skill Set

• Front‑End: React (v18), TypeScript, React Router, Redux‑RTK, hooks, context, component libraries (Material‑UI, Chakra, design systems, GDS); performance tuning (memoization, virtualization, bundle splitting, webpack/Vite), accessibility (WCAG), responsive layout, CSS‑in‑JS, Tailwind, MUI. Testing: Jest, React Testing Library.

• Back‑End: .NET 7/8, ASP.NET Core Web API, EF Core, LINQ, DDD, CQRS, MediatR, background processing (Hangfire/Queues). Azure App Service, Functions, API Management, Logic Apps, Storage, Key Vault, App Insights, AKS (desirable). Azure DevOps: Git repos, YAML pipelines, artifacts, IaC (Bicep, Terraform). Security scanning (SonarQube, Veracode) nice to have.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8‑12 years total experience, 3‑5 years leading full‑stack teams on React, .NET, Azure.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proven delivery of multi‑region enterprise web platforms; migration / modernization experience preferred.
• Certifications (nice to have): Microsoft Azure Architect, Azure Developer, React Front‑End Specialist.

Success Metrics & KPIs

• Release predictability and lead time reduction, MTTR & incident rate.
• Code quality coverage, Sonar issues trend, security vulnerability closure, SLA.
• Performance: Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS), API latency/throughput, cost per request.
• Team outcomes: sprint goal attainment, review effectiveness, hiring ramp‑up velocity.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React Native Web for shared components, Figma, React accelerators.
• Exposure to agentic workflows, GitHub Copilot prompt libraries for SDLC acceleration.
• Knowledge of Ping OIDC integrations for enterprise authentication.

Skills

Mandatory

• Angular, HTML / HTML5, MS SQL Server, .NET Core WebAPI (MVC Core), .NET Framework.

Good to Have

• Entity Framework (EF/EF Core), ASP.NET MVC.

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Staffing and Recruiting

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