Lead/ Principal Software Engineer (C#.net, Angular, Azure)

As a Lead Engineer within Application Engineering, you will provide day-to-day technical leadership for a small, dedicated scrum team focused on building and enhancing features within the Certent Equity Management (CEM) platform for a large enterprise client engagement.

This role blends hands-on engineering and people leadership. You will spend approximately half your time writing and reviewing production code and the other half leading delivery-setting priorities, running scrum ceremonies, removing blockers, and ensuring high-quality, on-time execution. You will also bring an AI-first engineering mindset, actively integrating modern, agentic development tooling into daily workflows and coaching your team to do the same.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Delivery

• Serve as the technical authority for the scrum team, making day-to-day engineering decisions and setting expectations for code quality and delivery.

• Write, review, and contribute production-quality code across the full stack (C#, .NET, Angular, and Oracle).

• Lead all agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.

• Set daily priorities and actively remove blockers by resolving technical ambiguity, clarifying requirements, and managing dependencies.

• Enforce strong engineering standards including unit testing, code reviews, definition of done, and release readiness.

AI-First Engineering

• Champion organizational AI adoption targets, including AI-assisted code creation and review practices.

• Model an agentic development mindset by integrating AI tooling into daily engineering workflows.

• Coach and mentor team members on effective use of AI tools to improve velocity and code quality.

• Stay current with emerging AI development tools and recommend improvements to engineering leadership.

Team Leadership and People Management

• Directly manage a team of four to five engineers, including 1:1s, performance feedback, and career development conversations.

• Partner with the Sr. Engineering Manager on hiring, onboarding, and performance management.

• Identify, develop, and mentor technical talent within the team.

• Foster a collaborative, accountable culture focused on quality and continuous improvement.

Client Engagement and Requirements

• Interface with client stakeholders during requirements clarification, design reviews, demos, and issue resolution.

• Analyze underlying business problems and advocate for scalable platform solutions rather than client-specific customizations.

• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to ensure work is clearly defined, scoped, and sequenced.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate with QA engineers to ensure appropriate test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness.

• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Solution Architects, and peer Lead Engineers on shared technical standards and decisions.

Proactively surface delivery risks, technical blockers, and scope concerns to leadership.

• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise SaaS environments.

• Demonstrated experience in a technical lead or lead engineer role.

• Strong full-stack expertise in C#, .NET (Framework and/or Core), Angular, and Oracle.

• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and layered architectures.

• Experience implementing CQRS patterns in multi-service architectures.

• Proven AI-first engineering experience, including use of agentic development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar.

• Experience leading agile scrum teams, including ownership of delivery and ceremonies.

• Direct people management experience with performance feedback and career development.

• Strong engineering fundamentals including code reviews, unit testing, and CI/CD best practices.

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

• Experience with Oracle databases and PL/SQL development.

• Experience with Entity Framework Core and Oracle EF Core provider.

• 3+ years of experience with Azure cloud services and Azure DevOps pipelines.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders. ⓘ View potential timezone restrictions

• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience modernizing legacy .NET Framework applications to ASP.NET Core.

• Familiarity with schema migration tools such as Liquibase.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Application Insights, Serilog).

• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker or Podman.

• Experience with background job scheduling (e.g., Hangfire).

• Experience working in complex, multi-product platforms with shared databases.

• Background in financial services, equity compensation, or other regulated domains.

• Scrum Master or equivalent Agile certification.

Experience mentoring mid-level engineers into senior or lead roles.