Lead Engineer .NET/GCP

Intone Networks - Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead Engineer .NET/GCP position is a contract role focused on leading a team of developers in delivering high-quality software solutions. The role emphasizes strong leadership in .NET C# development, architectural design, and mentoring team members while ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices. The position also involves direct communication with clients and managing the technical approach for project implementations.

Responsibilities

• Manage a 3-person client team
• Perform written performance reviews for team
• Hold regular one-on-ones with team members
• Design independently within a defined architecture
• Provide input to the architecture
• Understand different architectural views (conceptual, logical, physical, and deployment)
• Review code assuring Definition of Done, coding standards, and good design principles are met
• Operate as a 'full-stack' developer with expertise in new and legacy architecture styles
• Develop talent at all levels of developer
• Set an example of a professional developer
• Coach and teach usage of Design Patterns, SOLID principles, and Architectural Patterns
• Establish development environment setup for team from scratch
• Create new hosting and deployment environments from scratch, or work with engineering in their creation
• Establish new Continuous Integration, integrate with SCM, and set up builds
• Guide the team in developing estimates
• Communicate with the client on new features and scope change
• Define technical approach, lead team in implementing it
• Design features independently
• Deliver complex components
• Define and manage tools and processes for team
• Mentor team on methodology use
• Interview junior and mid-level candidates for the team
• Proactively raise and solve issues with clients

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience developing in C#
• 5+ years of experience working with .NET technologies including at least one of the following: Web API, ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, or MAUI
• Masterful expertise in .NET/.NET Core, with more than 10 years of experience leading the development of highly scalable and resilient applications incorporating SOLID programming principles
• 3+ years of experience working with Azure including at least one of these technologies: Azure Functions, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Identity, AD, AKS, AzDO, and APIM
• 3+ years of experience working with JavaScript, jQuery, NodeJS and/or other related front-end web technologies
• 3+ years of experience with unit testing
• 2+ years of experience in creating new hosting and deployment environments from scratch, working knowledge of containers and virtualization
• Strong proficiency in developing applications with GCP platform i.e. GCP pub sub etc.
• Deep architectural knowledge of microservice architecture & patterns, commonly used messaging patterns
• Development experience with messaging platforms eg. Kafka
• Strong Experience with REST API Development and platforms i.e., ASP.net core WEB API
• Experience with relational and nosql databases i.e; SQL Server, DB2 etc. Familiarity with writing stored procedures
• Experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting of apps deployed in production
• Experience with CI/CD tooling i.e. Jenkins, Azure Devops etc
• Experience with containerization technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficient with unit and service testing. Experience with testing frameworks xunit, Nunit etc. Familiar with TDD (Test Driven Development)

Nice-to-haves

• Highly proficient implementing and consuming SOAP or REST services
• Advanced debugging and troubleshooting tools and techniques
• Expert database programming skills
• Expertise in Object-Oriented Design and Development (SOLID principles)
• In-Depth understanding of Server operating systems and Cloud hosting models
• Strong ability to establish new Continuous Integration, integrate with SCM, and setup builds
• Strong experience with the Agile methodology and the SCRUM process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Prior team leadership experience strongly preferred
• Master's degree in technical discipline desired