Software Development Lead

Overview

In this role you will lead the squad responsible for secure, observable, and reliable software in the .NET ecosystem. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with people leadership, shaping delivery plans and technical direction in collaboration with product and architecture teams. You’ll guide complex back-end design, drive quality and live-operations readiness, and work with platform specialists on CI/CD, cloud, and infrastructure.

This is your opportunity to influence architecture, security, and engineering standards at scale while mentoring engineers to improve delivery and impact.

• Design, build, test, and maintain secure, observable, reliable software in high-risk areas
• Lead, coach, and mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and feedback
• Shape delivery plans with Product Owner and Delivery Manager, including dependencies and trade-offs
• Provide technical direction with Architecture team across design, security, testing, observability, and deployment
• Clarify requirements with stakeholders and translate priorities into sustainable engineering outcomes
• Establish and maintain engineering standards for source control, testing, secure development, and release readiness
• Own technical assurance via code reviews, automated quality controls, and security scanning
• Collaborate with Platform team to improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines) and leverage platform tooling
• Contribute to cloud-native design on Azure, with emphasis on security, resilience, and cost
• Work with Platform on IaC (Terraform) contributions without owning shared modules or state
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Identify and manage technical and delivery risks including security, performance, and technical debt
• Support production through monitoring, incident response, and service improvements
• Evaluate technologies and practices to reduce risk and increase customer value
• Improve delivery flow, predictability, quality, and operational performance

• Deep knowledge of C#, ASP.NET Core, and the .NET ecosystem
• Experience designing secure REST APIs, background services, and distributed systems
• Understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and service boundaries
• Relational data experience with SQL Server and Entity Framework Core
• Cloud-native service design for Microsoft Azure including compute, storage, identity, and networking
• Strong authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure API design
• Experience with automated testing across unit, integration, contract, and performance
• Structured logging, metrics, tracing, and operational diagnostics
• Ability to lead back-end architecture, integration design, data concerns, service reliability, and performance
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines)
• Terraform knowledge for infrastructure changes and IaC concepts
• Excellent communication skills for diverse stakeholders
• Experience supporting production services including incident response and debt management

• Leadership and coaching
• Clarifying requirements and influencing decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication
• C#, ASP.NET Core
• REST APIs, background services, distributed systems
• Microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging