C# Software Engineer / Team Lead Madrid / WFH to €82,000

Are you a skilled C# Software Engineer with strong team leadership experience?

You could be joining a global financial services company as they rebuild the international payments platform, working within the Corporate Payments division.

As a C# Software Engineer / Team Lead you'll lead your Squad across architecture, development, delivery and production operations whilst remaining hands-on, writing production code and tackling the most technically complex problems. You'll own system architecture, API design, technical decisions, design reviews and code quality and partner with Product Managers on roadmaps, delivery plans and priorities.

Providing technical leadership, mentoring, 1-2-1s and feedback you'll help to develop the engineers within the team, ensuring continuous improvement and setting standards for how the team builds, tests and ships. You'll champion AI and agentic coding tools across the software development lifecycle, driving process improvements and modern techniques.

This is ideal for a senior engineer who wants to lead from the front - combining technical ownership, hands-on development and genuine responsibility for the growth of the team.

Location / WFH:

You join colleagues in the Madrid office 2-3 days a week, with flexibility to work from home the other days.

About you:

• You have strong experience providing technical / team leadership within a software engineering team
• You have strong backend development skills with C# .Net (would also consider other OO languages)
• You have strong system design experience, particularly distributed systems and microservices
• You have frontend experience with Vue.js, React or modern Angular
• You have a good knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• You have production experience with AWS, ideally including SQS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS and Lambda
• You have experience owning CI/CD and release processes, such as GitHub Actions
• You have hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar agentic tools, with a clear view on effective AI adoption
• You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to both engineering and business stakeholders
• A background in payments, FX or another regulated industry would be of benefit
• You have fluent English skills

What's in it for you:

• Salary to €82,000 + bonus
• 23 days holiday, rising to 28 + your birthday off
• Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover
• Healthcare
• Hybrid working

Apply now to find out more about this C# Software Engineer / Team Lead opportunity.