Senior Software Developer
The Role
London Business School are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to play a key role in designing, building and running reliable, secure, and scalable backend services across a complex digital ecosystem.
You’ll work across a mix of modern cloud-based platforms and established applications that underpin business-critical processes. You’ll collaborate closely with frontend developers, QA, product, and architecture, bringing strong engineering judgement to both new delivery and the ongoing evolution of existing systems.
This is a hands-on senior role with real technical ownership - not a people-management post, but one where your technical judgement genuinely matters.
You’ll be working on systems that genuinely matter, with the opportunity to influence technical direction, improve ways of working, and help shape a more sustainable backend estate. We value thoughtful engineering, collaboration, and clarity over heroics.
Main Responsibilities
- Designing and developing backend services, APIs, and integrations using modern engineering practices
- Owning and supporting backend services in production, including performance, resilience, and security
- Supporting andmaintaininglegacy applications whererequired, while actively contributing to theirstabilisation, improvement, ormodernisation
- Working with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines to deliver frequent, reliable releases
- Collaborating with frontend developers, QA, and delivery leads to shape well-designed solutions
- Contributing to architectural decisions, technical standards, and coding best practice
- Supporting and mentoring other developers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
- Improving legacy systems pragmatically, balancing risk, delivery needs, and technical debt
Who we are looking for
- Strong experience as a backend developer in a modern engineering environment
- Solid experience with.NET / C#and API-driven architectures
- Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, data flows, and security consideration
- Comfortable working with CI/CD, automated testing, and production support
- A pragmatic problem-solver who can balance quality, speed, and operational realities
- Confident communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly
- Experience working inAgile delivery environments, withScrum as the primary framework
- A mindset geared towardscontinuous improvement, learning, and refining ways of working
- Experience building and supportingASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC applications and Web APIs
- Experience developing.NET services and librariessupporting integrations and line-of-business systems
- Hands-on experience withAzure Function Appsfor serverless and microservice-style workloads
- Experience integrating withthird-party platforms(e.g.payments, CRM, messaging, and data services)
- Familiarity withevent-driven architectures and messaging
- Experience supporting andmodernisingestablished technologies(e.g.WinForms, jQuery Mobile, Cordova, ETL tooling)
Why London Business School
London Business School; a global and vibrant business community based in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, London and Dubai. It’s where extraordinary minds and diverse perspectives connect, to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location.
What you can expect from us
- Generous annual leave of 27 days PLUS extra between Christmas and New Year!
- Generous pension package, 14.5% employer contribution (in return for employee enrolment and contribution)
- Free onsite gym and swimming pool
- Amazing range of professional development to support your career path
- Enhanced cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing offering to support your physical, mental and financial health
- Up to 5 days paid emergency leave for staff who have caring responsibilities for a family member, dependent or friend who is ill.
At London Business School, we support Smart Working - a hybrid approach designed to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance while delivering the best outcomes for your role and the needs of our customers. All roles require a minimum of two days on campus each week to foster a vibrant, collaborative community.
For this role specifically, you will be expected to be on campus 2 days per week.
We operate with ‘core hours’ – 10:00-15:00 – to maximise opportunities for connection and collaboration across teams during the working day. Outside of these hours, you may still be required for meetings or collaboration based on your role and customer needs. Additionally, we offer Protected Time - a flexible, one-hour slot, within the working week dedicated to your learning and development, wellbeing, or focused, quiet work
Our commitment to driving inclusion and belonging
We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education and society at large. We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive. This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard.
Candidates needing sponsorship should assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by evaluating their circumstances against the relevant criteria before applying
Please note we start screening CVs and interviewing candidates from the start of a campaign. A successful candidate could progress to offer before the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in any roles.
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