Development Team Lead (Azure/.NET)

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Hybrid work between home and the Haymarket office; most of the team works from the office 2–3 days per week, with flexible hours around 09:00–17:30 Monday to Friday.

Salary: £67,000–£80,000 per year, dependent on experience, with earning potential up to £85,500.

Company

hirify.global is an award-winning software scale-up providing an AI-powered resource management platform for professional services firms, combining advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights.

What you will do

• Lead a cross-functional product engineering team in planning and delivering new features and enhancements.
• Manage and support 2–6 software engineers through one-to-ones and personal development planning.
• Contribute to architecture, design, technology decisions, and engineering objectives and key results.
• Work with product managers and the team on feature prioritisation and scoping.
• Analyse, code, test, and release product features while managing the full feature and release lifecycle.
• Collaborate with professional services, product managers, and customers; interview and hire additional engineers and champion learning and cross-company teamwork.

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership experience; direct line management experience is not essential.
• Strong full-stack development experience, ideally aligned with .NET Framework/Core, Azure SQL Server, Azure, Vue.js, and vanilla JavaScript/CSS/HTML. Experienced generalists and candidates focused on the front end are suitable.
• Ability to break down complex work, solve difficult problems, identify risks, and learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to challenge constructively, ask difficult questions kindly, and communicate in an excellent, supportive way.
• Ability to consider the broader impact of design and coding decisions.
• Experience working with agile development teams on large software products.
• Emotional intelligence, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to align team priorities are important for the role.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of wider Azure platform services.
• Experience with complex web interfaces and large DOM views.
• Experience in or with the professional services industry.
• Experience significantly increasing team productivity through AI workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment at 37.5 hours per week with flexible working hours.
• At least £1,000 per year for professional and personal development.
• 33 days of holiday including bank holidays, increasing annually to a maximum of 40 days, plus a paid four-week sabbatical in the fifth anniversary year.
• Enhanced family leave, private healthcare and AXA rewards, income protection, death-in-service cover, and a matched 5% workplace pension.
• Wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme and counselling service.
• Innovation Week twice a year, up to 20 hours of paid volunteering time annually, regular All Hands meetings, and monthly team socials with in-person and virtual options.

Hiring process

• The successful candidate will be subject to background checks and may declare relevant information in advance.