Senior Backend Developer

Waracle are looking for a Senior Backend Developer for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role working from our Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, or London offices.

Are you a skilled Senior Backend Developer who is ready to move beyond just coding and become a key technical leader? Do you excel at balancing speed and quality to drive consistent velocity, while also mentoring the next generation of talent?

This role is a unique opportunity to own the end-to-end delivery of critical backend features, specifically utilising your deep proficiency in C# and .NET. We're looking for someone who is ready to shape tactical direction, ensure robust security and performance, and champion best practices across the team. If you're passionate about introducing new ideas, coaching your peers, and making a tangible impact on business-critical projects, we encourage you to apply!

• Feature Design & Delivery: Design and deliver end-to-end backend features and subsystems, ensuring code is modular, reusable, and scalable across projects.
• Dev Ops & Automation: Own and execute Dev Ops/CI/CD tasks, including setting up and maintaining pipelines and automation to streamline build, test, and deployment
• Performance Optimisation: Optimise service performance, scalability, and resilience through application-level improvements (e.g., query tuning, caching, threading, memory management).
• Security & Testing Strategy: Deliver and maintain robust application security and guide the testing strategy (unit, integration, service-level) to ensure release readiness and service accuracy.
• Technical Leadership &
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Lead feature delivery, independently resolve day-to-day issues, and shape tactical direction by identifying and mitigating risks while evaluating trade-offs (speed vs. quality).
• Cross-Client Context Switching: Comfortable manage work across multiple clients, adapting quickly to different application landscapes and priorities.
• Mentoring & Community Contribution: Mentor junior colleagues, conduct peer reviews, and contribute to the wider practice by introducing new industry ideas and owning internal Community of Practice (CoP) initiatives.

We appreciate diverse backgrounds and career paths. If you don't meet every single qualification below but are excited about the role and confident in your ability to learn, we still encourage you to apply!

• Core Backend Expertise: Proven proficiency in C# and the .NET framework (or .NET Core) in a commercial environment.
• System Design: Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable and resilient backend systems.
• CI/CD and Dev Ops: Experience leveraging CI/CD and Dev Ops tools to support and automate processes, complemented by familiarity with modern cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Senior Capacity: Demonstrable experience in a senior capacity, including leading work streams and driving technical direction.
• Database & Performance: Demonstrable experience with database technologies and optimising application performance (e.g., query tuning, caching).
• Communication & Leadership: The ability to confidently present demos to clients and stakeholders, and explain technical trade-offs in plain language.
• Collaboration: Excellent organisational, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to engage with and connect to a wide variety of personality types.

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!).

After that,…