Job Description

The Lead Developer transforms business requirements into robust technical designs. You will take ownership of project delivery by leading a team of developers. Your responsibilities include ensuring alignment with architectural standards, driving development best practices, and delivering high-quality solutions. This role demands strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to manage distributed teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

Essential Position Functions

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable software applications with little or no supervision
• Drive the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, system design, implementation, testing, and deployment
• Lead a team of developers, enabling those around you to do their best work
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex software and integration issues
• Champion software quality through rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration practices
• Provide recommendations on architecture direction, product direction, and development tools
• Work closely with other departments to provide designs that solve business problems and ultimately benefit our customers
• Produce and maintain comprehensive documentation for software architecture, code, and development processes
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance system performance and reliability
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align software solutions with business and operational goals
• Interact with product owners and stakeholders to gather information, provide education, give status updates, and communicate relevant project-related activities

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position will act as a team lead on an agile team. This position requires a comfort level with leadership towards ensuring other developers are producing quality code. This position has the authority to determine the corrective action needed to achieve desired outcomes.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or 7+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of experience as part of an agile development team
• Demonstrated success in delivering projects from concept to completion
• Required Technical Skills
• Expert proficiency in C# and .NET Framework, with willingness to adopt newer .NET technologies
• Working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, and related frameworks (Hibernate, JPA)
• Expert knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles
• Expert knowledge of varying design patterns such as CQRS, API Gateways, and event-driven design
• Expert knowledge of building and architecting REST APIs
• Expert knowledge of distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Strong experience with relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Azure SQL, Oracle)

Required Platform Experience

• Azure API Management
• Azure Functions
• Kafka (event streaming)
• Azure Redis Cache
• Azure SQL Database
• Dynatrace (application performance monitoring)

Additional Technical Skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Experience working with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
• Experience with the Atlassian toolset, especially JIRA
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Knowledge of networking protocols and cybersecurity best practices

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work directly with customers to drive to business outcomes
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Ability to work with a diverse group of development team members
• Ability to work on multiple features and refactoring/support concurrently
• Ability to work across a development team to keep sprint commitments on track
• Ability to stay on the leading edge of technology trends
• Ability to problem solve: define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions
• Ability to prioritize tasks and tactfully negotiate priority with stakeholders
• Passionate about continuous improvement, efficiency at scale, and automation
• Committed to self-study to maintain or increase technical abilities

This position is open for Indinapolis, Indiana office, Mesa, AZ and Burnaby, Canada office.

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