Lead Software Engineer
Location: Remote, with quarterly travel
Skills: Strong AWS, C#, working within Product Development, React
Perks: Strong base bonus, and benefits

Our Milwaukee-based client seeks a Lead Staff Engineer for a growing team! The ideal candidate will have strong AWS experience. This position entails working on a team of Product Owners, Software Developers, and Quality Assurance Engineers. You will contribute to the modernization and re-architecture of the systems that drive value for our clients. You will be able to work with different portions of our systems and business, including UI/UX, back-end automation, and embedded business process improvement projects.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, develop, maintain, and improve software and other technical solutions that solve business challenges.

• Play a key role in redesigning our legacy products in AWS.

• Champion AWS best practices and mentor team members.

• Develop and maintain unit and integration tests.

• Responsibly self-manage workload given project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

• Help the team achieve sprint goals through independent work and collaboration.

• Participate in code reviews to promote quality and best practices.

• Support code deployments.

• Mentor Junior/Mid-level engineers, specifically in a Cloud Native Environment.

What We Need

• 10+ years of relevant experience.

• At a minimum, a Bachelor’s Degree.

• Strong experience with C#, SQL, JavaScript, .NET Framework / .NET Core.

• Cloud development experience with AWS.

• Understanding of Agile practices (e.g., Scrum).

• Experience with full software development lifecycle.

• Excellent technical design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

• Experience with domain-driven design.

• Experience with microservice architecture.

• Experience with event-driven architecture.

• Passionate about building high-quality systems with AWS best practices.

• Excellent collaborative skills; work well independently and as a team member.

• Proven analytical skills to interpret and implement business and functional requirements.

• Understanding of the value of test automation and a desire to incorporate it in development practice.

Wish List

• Continued education and/or advanced degree(s).

• Experience in environments subject to HIPAA and/or PCI regulations.

• Experience in software-as-a-service, actuarial science, and/or insurance underwriting industry.

• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD).

• AWS Certifications.

• Understanding of DevOps principles.

• Experience with test-driven development.

• Experience designing systems in an event-driven architecture.

• Experience rebuilding on-prem legacy applications in a modern cloud environment (AWS).

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