Senior Technical Lead

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: https://us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6a3b68411070f7dab1adb3a8b&id=f0193ac93e. Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit www.solutionstreet.com or check out our Face page https://www.facebook.com/solutionstreet for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!

If you are a talented software engineer looking for a challenge, please apply now!