Lead Software Engineer -- AI Team (Back-end focus, Python or .NET + must have Azure experience)
Salary: $150K–$170K+, commensurate with experience, location, and market conditions
Bonus: 5-10%
Pension contribution: 7.5%
This is a hybrid or fully remote role. Candidates must reside within one of the following states (preferably within the cities listed for tax purposes):
- Texas – Dallas or Houston
- California – Los Angeles, Century City, San Francisco
- New York – New York City
- District of Columbia – Washington, D.C.
- Massachusetts – Boston
- Florida – Miami
Note: 100% remote work is allowed, but residency in one of the above states is required for tax and compliance purposes.
Summary:
The Lead Full-Stack Engineer will report to the Director of Software Engineering, and be leading a team of back-end and front-end engineers, in a Microsoft environment, building applications with Python and/or .NET, C#, ReactJS, NextJS in a cloud-native Azure environment. We have stronger front-end developers on the team, which is why we’re looking for the Lead to have a stronger back-end focus. But to the extent you have full-stack experience with ReactJS/NextJS on the front-end, even better.
This role will focus on building applications for the AI team, and your key stakeholders will be the Chief Data Officer, Director of AI and Director of Software Engineering – in addition to the peers on your team: AI Engineers, Front-End Developers, and soon to be back-end developers.
The team you will be leading will not report to you to be clear. But you will be conducting code reviews, leading design and architecture, mentoring less experience developers, but still doing hands on development yourself.
What you’ll be doing
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using .NET, Python, React/Next.js on Azure.
- Lead technical decision-making, providing expertise on best practices, architecture, and modern software development methodologies.
- Conduct code reviews, ensuring high code quality, security, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to define, design, and ship new features.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of growth and technical excellence.
- Monitor and improve application performance, optimizing database queries, front-end rendering, and API interactions.
- Ensure security best practices in web applications, including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
- Work with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments on Azure.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and advocate for their adoption where appropriate.
Skills we’re seeking
- 7+ years of experience with Software Engineering
- 5+ recent years of experience with Python Development OR .NET C# Development
- Experience with both Python and .NET C# would be even better as we have applications written in both Python and .NET
- Strong recent experience with cloud-native experience in Azure
- Strong experience with Azure SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases
- At least some experience with JavaScript engineering, ideally with React or Next (more the better)
- Experience leading teams of software engineers
- Strong experience in code reviews, software design patterns, and scalable application architecture.
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
Nice to haves
- Experience with AI/ML/Data Science
- Experience with Django or Flask
- Experience with Python data science libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, etc.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps) on Azure
- Experience working in professional services environments
- Experience building applications that serve a global user base
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or an IT related field
