About The Role
We are partnering with an established technology organization seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join a team building a new cloud-native platform supporting safety-focused products and services. This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building backend systems while providing technical leadership and mentorship to a small team.
The Lead Software Engineer will spend approximately 70% of their time designing and developing software, with the remaining time focused on technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration. The ideal candidate brings deep .NET/C# and Azure experience along with a strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, cloud scalability, and modern engineering practices. This is an opportunity to help build a greenfield platform from the ground up while remaining closely involved in day-to-day development.
Compensation
Salary: $160k - 175k base + 15% target annual bonus
Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with employer match, paid time off, wellness benefits, tuition reimbursement, and additional employee programs
Primary Responsibilities
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Lead hands-on development of backend services and APIs using .NET/C# within a modern Azure environment.
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Help build a new cloud-native platform centered on safety alerts, external integrations, and scalable API capabilities.
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Design and implement distributed services with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
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Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a small engineering team while continuing to contribute code approximately 70% of the time.
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Establish practical development standards through thoughtful code reviews, testing practices, and day-to-day technical direction.
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Contribute to system design and architectural discussions while remaining focused on implementation and delivery rather than functioning solely as an architect.
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Develop solutions leveraging Azure services, containerized workloads, messaging technologies, search capabilities, caching, and other components of a distributed architecture.
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Help define effective REST API patterns and standards, including solutions involving public-facing and third-party integrations.
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Partner with product and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into clear, practical technical solutions.
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Improve application reliability and visibility through monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
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Mentor engineers at different experience levels and help create an accountable, collaborative, and supportive engineering environment.
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Clearly communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Candidate Qualifications
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7+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience developing backend applications, services, and APIs.
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Advanced proficiency with .NET and C# in production environments.
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Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST API standards, cloud scalability, and modern backend development patterns.
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Hands-on experience developing cloud-native solutions in Azure.
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Experience with Azure services such as Functions, Container Apps, Blob Storage, API Management, Service Bus, and/or Event Hubs.
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Strong relational database experience with technologies such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
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Experience building and deploying containerized applications with Docker; Kubernetes experience is highly valued.
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Experience with Elasticsearch and caching technologies such as Redis.
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Familiarity with production monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and Azure Application Insights.
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Demonstrated ability to contribute to system design while remaining highly hands-on with software development.
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Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers; formal people-management experience is not required.
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Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders.
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Experience developing public-facing APIs or integrating third-party APIs is a plus.
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Familiarity with TypeScript, domain-driven design, clean architecture, microservices, GraphQL, and/or NoSQL databases is beneficial.
