Lead/Principal Engineer - Application Engineering

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.

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• 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.
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent 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.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.