Position: Back-End Development Lead Location: UK - Fully Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 We're working with a forward-thinking technology-led organisation that's looking to hire a Senior Back End Developer to join one of their high-performing engineering teams. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about building scalable software, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to play a key role in shaping backend architecture within a modern, agile environment. The Business places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement both technically and culturally and encourages engineers to explore new technologies, challenge existing ways of working, and contribute to the evolution of their engineering practices. The Role You'll be leading one of our three product squads a multi-skilled team usually consisting of Back End, Front-End, QA, UX Designers, Content Creators, and a Product Manager, supported by other leads and Staff Engineers. You will be part of a Product focussed Technical squad, where the squad is responsible for building, delivering and maintaining fantastic software. This means you will be involved in all stages of your lifecycle from the initial discovery, through planning, build, release and monitoring. You'll be part of all the usual Agile ceremonies and as a team, you will be delivering great new functionality over two-week sprints. When it comes to culture we really try to build happy, cohesive, performant teams that pull together. Each squad feels a real sense of ownership over their work. Building an environment based on trust and honesty is really important to us if something's not right you can be sure your voice will be heard and people will care about what you have to say. As a lead backend engineer, your time will be split between coaching other backend developers within the team, steering our backend architecture and providing oversight on the back end tasks for our backlog items delivering some independently and some through coaching others. As we work in multidisciplinary squads, ideally you will also be able to support others doing Front End, QA, DevOps (etc) work to make sure we hit our sprint goals. Your new development will be done within a Microservices architecture, but you will also be contributing to our legacy systems while we are in the transition period. Our stack runs on Azure including Front Door, App Services, Application Insights, and App Configuration with SQL Server and Cosmos DB for data and Azure Service Bus for messaging between services. Outside of squad work you will be part of the Back End Chapter. We hold Chapter meetings to talk about tech and ways of working. We work democratically to evolve our stack and make constant improvements. Required Skills/Experience Strong C# development experience Experience with both .NET Core and .NET Web API Experience of building Microservices in .Net Core Experience using Message Based Architectures Experience using both SQL & NoSQL technologies Experience of API design Cloud development/architecture (Azure) Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) Knowledge and experience of Unit Testing (xUnit, nUnit) Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into back-end services (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar APIs) Desired Skills/Experience Experience of TDD practices DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code) Experience managing a team of developers Exposure to Agentic AI patterns (tool use, orchestration frameworks, MCP, or similar) Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and tooling (React, React Native, npm) Experience working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines Core Values An excellent communicator and relationship builder Confident in providing technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level and junior developers Enjoys bringing clarity to situations then helping others to take ownership Role-models curiosity, open-mindedness, honesty, and transparency Advocacy for great engineering practices around the Digital & Technology team Actively keeps up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry trends and brings new thinking back to the team Senior Developer - Development Lead - Development Manager - Fully UK Remote
Jun 10, 2026
Full time
Position: Back-End Development Lead Location: UK - Fully Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 We're working with a forward-thinking technology-led organisation that's looking to hire a Senior Back End Developer to join one of their high-performing engineering teams. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about building scalable software, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to play a key role in shaping backend architecture within a modern, agile environment. The Business places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement both technically and culturally and encourages engineers to explore new technologies, challenge existing ways of working, and contribute to the evolution of their engineering practices. The Role You'll be leading one of our three product squads a multi-skilled team usually consisting of Back End, Front-End, QA, UX Designers, Content Creators, and a Product Manager, supported by other leads and Staff Engineers. You will be part of a Product focussed Technical squad, where the squad is responsible for building, delivering and maintaining fantastic software. This means you will be involved in all stages of your lifecycle from the initial discovery, through planning, build, release and monitoring. You'll be part of all the usual Agile ceremonies and as a team, you will be delivering great new functionality over two-week sprints. When it comes to culture we really try to build happy, cohesive, performant teams that pull together. Each squad feels a real sense of ownership over their work. Building an environment based on trust and honesty is really important to us if something's not right you can be sure your voice will be heard and people will care about what you have to say. As a lead backend engineer, your time will be split between coaching other backend developers within the team, steering our backend architecture and providing oversight on the back end tasks for our backlog items delivering some independently and some through coaching others. As we work in multidisciplinary squads, ideally you will also be able to support others doing Front End, QA, DevOps (etc) work to make sure we hit our sprint goals. Your new development will be done within a Microservices architecture, but you will also be contributing to our legacy systems while we are in the transition period. Our stack runs on Azure including Front Door, App Services, Application Insights, and App Configuration with SQL Server and Cosmos DB for data and Azure Service Bus for messaging between services. Outside of squad work you will be part of the Back End Chapter. We hold Chapter meetings to talk about tech and ways of working. We work democratically to evolve our stack and make constant improvements. Required Skills/Experience Strong C# development experience Experience with both .NET Core and .NET Web API Experience of building Microservices in .Net Core Experience using Message Based Architectures Experience using both SQL & NoSQL technologies Experience of API design Cloud development/architecture (Azure) Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) Knowledge and experience of Unit Testing (xUnit, nUnit) Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into back-end services (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar APIs) Desired Skills/Experience Experience of TDD practices DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code) Experience managing a team of developers Exposure to Agentic AI patterns (tool use, orchestration frameworks, MCP, or similar) Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and tooling (React, React Native, npm) Experience working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines Core Values An excellent communicator and relationship builder Confident in providing technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level and junior developers Enjoys bringing clarity to situations then helping others to take ownership Role-models curiosity, open-mindedness, honesty, and transparency Advocacy for great engineering practices around the Digital & Technology team Actively keeps up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry trends and brings new thinking back to the team Senior Developer - Development Lead - Development Manager - Fully UK Remote
Position: Back End Development Lead Location: UK - Fully Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 We're working with a forward-thinking technology-led organisation that's looking to hire a Senior Back End Developer to join one of their high-performing engineering teams. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about building scalable software, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to play a key role in shaping backend architecture within a modern, agile environment. The Business places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement both technically and culturally and encourages engineers to explore new technologies, challenge existing ways of working, and contribute to the evolution of their engineering practices. The Role You'll be leading one of our three product squads a multi-skilled team usually consisting of Back End, Front-End, QA, UX Designers, Content Creators, and a Product Manager, supported by other leads and Staff Engineers. You will be part of a Product focussed Technical squad, where the squad is responsible for building, delivering and maintaining fantastic software. This means you will be involved in all stages of your lifecycle from the initial discovery, through planning, build, release and monitoring. You'll be part of all the usual Agile ceremonies and as a team, you will be delivering great new functionality over two-week sprints. When it comes to culture we really try to build happy, cohesive, performant teams that pull together. Each squad feels a real sense of ownership over their work. Building an environment based on trust and honesty is really important to us if something's not right you can be sure your voice will be heard and people will care about what you have to say. As a lead backend engineer, your time will be split between coaching other backend developers within the team, steering our backend architecture and providing oversight on the back end tasks for our backlog items delivering some independently and some through coaching others. As we work in multidisciplinary squads, ideally you will also be able to support others doing Front End, QA, DevOps (etc) work to make sure we hit our sprint goals. Your new development will be done within a Microservices architecture, but you will also be contributing to our legacy systems while we are in the transition period. Our stack runs on Azure including Front Door, App Services, Application Insights, and App Configuration with SQL Server and Cosmos DB for data and Azure Service Bus for messaging between services. Outside of squad work you will be part of the Back End Chapter. We hold Chapter meetings to talk about tech and ways of working. We work democratically to evolve our stack and make constant improvements. Required Skills/Experience Strong C# development experience Experience with both .NET Core and .NET Web API Experience of building Microservices in .Net Core Experience using Message Based Architectures Experience using both SQL & NoSQL technologies Experience of API design Cloud development/architecture (Azure) Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) Knowledge and experience of Unit Testing (xUnit, nUnit) Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into back-end services (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar APIs) Desired Skills/Experience Experience of TDD practices DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code) Experience managing a team of developers Exposure to Agentic AI patterns (tool use, orchestration frameworks, MCP, or similar) Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and tooling (React, React Native, npm) Experience working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines Core Values An excellent communicator and relationship builder Confident in providing technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level and junior developers Enjoys bringing clarity to situations then helping others to take ownership Role-models curiosity, open-mindedness, honesty, and transparency Advocacy for great engineering practices around the Digital & Technology team Actively keeps up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry trends and brings new thinking back to the team Senior Developer - Development Lead - Development Manager - Fully UK Remote
Jun 10, 2026
Full time
Position: Back End Development Lead Location: UK - Fully Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 We're working with a forward-thinking technology-led organisation that's looking to hire a Senior Back End Developer to join one of their high-performing engineering teams. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about building scalable software, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to play a key role in shaping backend architecture within a modern, agile environment. The Business places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement both technically and culturally and encourages engineers to explore new technologies, challenge existing ways of working, and contribute to the evolution of their engineering practices. The Role You'll be leading one of our three product squads a multi-skilled team usually consisting of Back End, Front-End, QA, UX Designers, Content Creators, and a Product Manager, supported by other leads and Staff Engineers. You will be part of a Product focussed Technical squad, where the squad is responsible for building, delivering and maintaining fantastic software. This means you will be involved in all stages of your lifecycle from the initial discovery, through planning, build, release and monitoring. You'll be part of all the usual Agile ceremonies and as a team, you will be delivering great new functionality over two-week sprints. When it comes to culture we really try to build happy, cohesive, performant teams that pull together. Each squad feels a real sense of ownership over their work. Building an environment based on trust and honesty is really important to us if something's not right you can be sure your voice will be heard and people will care about what you have to say. As a lead backend engineer, your time will be split between coaching other backend developers within the team, steering our backend architecture and providing oversight on the back end tasks for our backlog items delivering some independently and some through coaching others. As we work in multidisciplinary squads, ideally you will also be able to support others doing Front End, QA, DevOps (etc) work to make sure we hit our sprint goals. Your new development will be done within a Microservices architecture, but you will also be contributing to our legacy systems while we are in the transition period. Our stack runs on Azure including Front Door, App Services, Application Insights, and App Configuration with SQL Server and Cosmos DB for data and Azure Service Bus for messaging between services. Outside of squad work you will be part of the Back End Chapter. We hold Chapter meetings to talk about tech and ways of working. We work democratically to evolve our stack and make constant improvements. Required Skills/Experience Strong C# development experience Experience with both .NET Core and .NET Web API Experience of building Microservices in .Net Core Experience using Message Based Architectures Experience using both SQL & NoSQL technologies Experience of API design Cloud development/architecture (Azure) Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) Knowledge and experience of Unit Testing (xUnit, nUnit) Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into back-end services (e.g. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar APIs) Desired Skills/Experience Experience of TDD practices DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code) Experience managing a team of developers Exposure to Agentic AI patterns (tool use, orchestration frameworks, MCP, or similar) Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and tooling (React, React Native, npm) Experience working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines Core Values An excellent communicator and relationship builder Confident in providing technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level and junior developers Enjoys bringing clarity to situations then helping others to take ownership Role-models curiosity, open-mindedness, honesty, and transparency Advocacy for great engineering practices around the Digital & Technology team Actively keeps up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry trends and brings new thinking back to the team Senior Developer - Development Lead - Development Manager - Fully UK Remote
The Talent Set are delighted to be working with a fantastic International Development charity to find their Digital Marketing Manager. The current role is an initial 6-month fixed term contract. The charity is very flexible, and the current role can be worked fully remotely. Reporting into the Head of Marketing, the Digital Marketing Manager will be data-driven and results focussed to lead their performance marketing activity with a clear focus on generating income, maximising ROI and delivering supporter growth at scale. You will take ownership of core digital channels including Google & Bing Paid Search and Shopping, Google Grant, Display, YouTube, and SEO. Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute a results-driven digital marketing strategy focused on income generation, conversion, and lifetime supporter value. Maximise value from the Google Ad Grant, ensuring full utilisation within grant constraints while delivering measurable results. Build performance-driven channel plans across Paid Search, Shopping, Display, Video, and SEO, aligned to acquisition and revenue targets. Set up, manage, and continuously optimise Paid Search and Shopping campaigns on Google Ads, Google Grant, and Bing Ads with a focus on return on ad spend (ROAS) and cost per acquisition (CPA). Deliver Display and YouTube campaigns via Google Ads, managing targeting, placements, and creative testing. Track and report on key income metrics using GA4, GTM, and UTM tagging, with a focus on ROI, revenue per click, and conversion rates. Analyse data to identify trends, optimise campaigns, and deliver insights to inform wider marketing activity. Work with designers and content creators to brief, review, and optimise assets (copy, creative, landing pages). Collaborate with the marketing, and wider Mary s Meals teams to ensure campaigns support broader objectives. Person Specification: Proven, hands-on experience managing the Google Ad Grant, including understanding grant policies, maximising spend, and drive meaningful traffic and conversions. Extensive experience managing Google & Bing Paid Search campaigns (Search and Shopping formats) that deliver income and strong ROI Strong understanding of and experience with Display and YouTube advertising on the Google Ads platform Solid SEO knowledge including on-page optimisation, content strategy, and technical SEO basics Proficiency with Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Tag Manager, and implementing tracking strategies Skilled at creating and interpreting performance reports, analysing user journeys, and making data-led decisions Experience managing and optimising for performance metrics (e.g. ROI, CTR, CPA, ROAS) Strong copywriting skills for paid media and the ability to collaborate with creative and content teams Confident managing budgets, forecasting spend, and ensuring cost-effective delivery whilst optimising for revenue generation To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application. We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
Oct 01, 2025
Full time
The Talent Set are delighted to be working with a fantastic International Development charity to find their Digital Marketing Manager. The current role is an initial 6-month fixed term contract. The charity is very flexible, and the current role can be worked fully remotely. Reporting into the Head of Marketing, the Digital Marketing Manager will be data-driven and results focussed to lead their performance marketing activity with a clear focus on generating income, maximising ROI and delivering supporter growth at scale. You will take ownership of core digital channels including Google & Bing Paid Search and Shopping, Google Grant, Display, YouTube, and SEO. Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute a results-driven digital marketing strategy focused on income generation, conversion, and lifetime supporter value. Maximise value from the Google Ad Grant, ensuring full utilisation within grant constraints while delivering measurable results. Build performance-driven channel plans across Paid Search, Shopping, Display, Video, and SEO, aligned to acquisition and revenue targets. Set up, manage, and continuously optimise Paid Search and Shopping campaigns on Google Ads, Google Grant, and Bing Ads with a focus on return on ad spend (ROAS) and cost per acquisition (CPA). Deliver Display and YouTube campaigns via Google Ads, managing targeting, placements, and creative testing. Track and report on key income metrics using GA4, GTM, and UTM tagging, with a focus on ROI, revenue per click, and conversion rates. Analyse data to identify trends, optimise campaigns, and deliver insights to inform wider marketing activity. Work with designers and content creators to brief, review, and optimise assets (copy, creative, landing pages). Collaborate with the marketing, and wider Mary s Meals teams to ensure campaigns support broader objectives. Person Specification: Proven, hands-on experience managing the Google Ad Grant, including understanding grant policies, maximising spend, and drive meaningful traffic and conversions. Extensive experience managing Google & Bing Paid Search campaigns (Search and Shopping formats) that deliver income and strong ROI Strong understanding of and experience with Display and YouTube advertising on the Google Ads platform Solid SEO knowledge including on-page optimisation, content strategy, and technical SEO basics Proficiency with Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Tag Manager, and implementing tracking strategies Skilled at creating and interpreting performance reports, analysing user journeys, and making data-led decisions Experience managing and optimising for performance metrics (e.g. ROI, CTR, CPA, ROAS) Strong copywriting skills for paid media and the ability to collaborate with creative and content teams Confident managing budgets, forecasting spend, and ensuring cost-effective delivery whilst optimising for revenue generation To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application. We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
