Job Description
Solution Street is looking for a senior technical lead to own and lead all technical aspects of an exciting new SaaS application. As lead, you will be part of an agile software development team building a .NET Core/C# SaaS application hosted on the AWS cloud environment. You will provide technical leadership through coaching and mentoring of the development team and you will be responsible for making key technical decisions, ensuring the successful delivery of key product features, maintaining good code quality, clearing roadblocks impeding the velocity of the development, and planning/executing a tactical as well as a strategic technical roadmap for the application. This is a hands-on role and you will be expected to roll up your sleeves, write code, and lead by example.
Job Responsibilities:
Designs, develops, and unit tests key features of the application code
Takes responsibility in making key strategic and tactical technical decisions that will ensure the implementation of initiatives and quickly clears development impediments
Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
Guides software development teams through coaching sessions or mentorship
Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team
Leads peer-reviews of solution designs and related code for key features of the application
Leads the packaging and deployment of releases
Has a high level understanding of available technical solutions; researches and evaluates a variety of software products and libraries to make key technical decisions and recommendations
Collaborates with the development project manager to ensure requirements are met, delivered accurately and on time
Assesses opportunities for application code and process improvements and helps implement improvements with team members and other affected parties
Ensures that the technical solutions are scalable and will perform under the expected volume and load; is able to lead the development team with performance and scaling testing
Qualifications:
Required:
5+ years of experience as a software developer, 2+ years in a technical lead/architect role
Highly proficient in .NET Core framework and C# full stack development
Experience with Angular (or a similar JavaScript framework)
Highly proficient with data modeling, SQL, RDBMS (SQL Server preferred)
Extensive experience in defining and implementing RESTful (API) services
Experience designing and coding secure solutions, follows OWASP and industry standard security practices
Experience with cloud environment(s) for development and deployment (AWS strongly preferred)
Experience designing and implementing integrations with 3rd party API and Services
Experience with message queues, asynchronous/background processing
Experience with production deployment and support including:
logging and health alerting
debugging and solving production issues
testing performance and scaling of production applications
security and performance monitoring
Experience with Agile Scrum process
Experience with performance and scaling testing of a web application and databases
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
Superb organizational and time management skills
Great collaboration and communication skills
Preferred:
Experience with SaaS product design/development and/or multi-tenant architectures
AWS Solutions Architect or Developer experience/certification
For those that live locally, ideally the candidate would be able to come in to Solution Street Office in Herndon, VA approximately 2x per month.
About Solution Street
Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we’ve stuck by this principle and as a result, we’ve developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do.
We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners.
At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.
What's In It for You?
We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share out thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit or check out our Face page for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!
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