Principal Software Engineer (.NET)

As a Lead Engineer in Application Engineering, you will own the day-to-day technical leadership of a small application development scrum team focused on building new features and enhancing current capabilities within the Certent Equity Management (CEM) platform for a large, strategic enterprise client engagement. Reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager, you will split your time roughly equally between writing and reviewing code and leading your team - setting priorities, unblocking teammates, running scrum ceremonies, and holding the team accountable for high-quality delivery. This is both an IC role and a Management role. The right candidate is a seasoned engineer who leads by doing - someone whose technical credibility earns the team's respect and whose organizational discipline keeps delivery on track. You will be the daily technical authority for your squad, and also responsible for their career development. You will partner closely with the Sr Engineering Manager on delivery planning and escalations, and interfacing with client stakeholders at key points in the delivery lifecycle. You will bring an AI-first mindset - not just complying with organizational AI adoption targets, but genuinely integrating agentic development tooling into how you and your team work every day.

• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise SaaS environments, with demonstrated experience in a technical lead or lead engineer capacity.

• Deep full-stack expertise in C#, .NET (Framework and/or Core), Angular, and Oracle - able to contribute meaningfully across the entire stack.

• Strong proficiency in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - hands-on experience with domain model layering across application, service, and data access tiers.

• Experience with CQRS patterns for command/query separation in multi-service architectures.

• Demonstrated AI-first engineering mindset - hands-on experience with agentic development tooling (GitHub Copilot, Devin.AI, or similar) and a track record of driving AI adoption within an engineering team.

• Proven ability to lead a scrum team as both technical authority and delivery owner - setting priorities, running ceremonies, and holding teammates accountable.

• Experience with direct people management responsibilities - performance feedback, career development, and team engagement for a small team of engineers.

• Strong code review discipline and engineering quality standards - unit testing (xUnit/NUnit, Jasmine/Karma), CI/CD hygiene, definition-of-done rigor.

• Experience with Angular 15+ including Reactive Forms, RxJS, Angular Material, and TypeScript.

• Experience with Oracle databases including PL/SQL development - packages, procedures, views, and query optimization.