Leads software engineering teams, mentors developers, drives technical strategy, and oversees scalable, maintainable software development. Collaborates cross-functionally to define requirements, roadmaps, releases, and project plans. Documents system architecture, reports project status, and promotes engineering best practices, reliability, observability, performance, and continuous improvement. Requires strong experience with C#, SQL, .NET technologies, microservices, APIs, Azure, databases, Agile practices, and technical mentorship.
Overview
ResponsibilitiesMentorship and Knowledge Sharing:
Collaboration and Cross-Functional Teams:
Documentation and Transparency:
Continuous Improvement and Best Practices:
Qualifications
As a Principal Software Engineer at Alex Lee, you will lead and mentor engineering teams to produce high-quality, maintainable code. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, document system designs, and report on project status. Continuous improvement and adopting best practices are essential. Your contributions will enhance product performance while maintaining high standards.
Preference will be given to candidates residing in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, or Tennessee; however, qualified candidates from other locations may also be considered.
Responsibilities
- Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for your assigned component, providing mentorship and expertise to build knowledge and capabilities within engineering teams.
- Plays an active role in building an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Partners with and leverages cross-functional teams to determine user requirements and drive project plans, releases, and overall development.
- Influences technical strategy by collaborating with cross-functional teams, leveraging your experience to develop a long-term technical roadmap that meets stakeholder and growing business needs.
- Collaborates with peers across the organization on projects that turn opportunity into results.
- Documents system designs, processes, and architecture for transparency and future reference.
- Reports on project status, challenges, and results to stakeholders.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while sharing knowledge with other engineers.
- Innovates by driving modern approaches and the adoption of best practices within your team.
- Contributes to the continual improvement of your team’s quality standards and engineering processes.
- This position requires either a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years software engineering experience including but not limited to the following technologies/skills:
- Coding Languages: Proficiency in C# and SQL; knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5, React is beneficial but not required.
- Coding Skills/Technology Stacks: Familiarity with ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Entity Framework, Microservices, LINQ (proficient), REST APIs, Full Stack Applications, Azure DevOps & GIT, Azure CI/CD Pipelines, T-SQL, Relational Database Design/Development, Hangfire, Kendo UI, jQuery, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, etc.
- .NET Experience: Preferably multiple years of full-time experience with .NET Core 3 framework or higher. We are continually transitioning to the latest .NET Frameworks. Experience with classic .NET is also valued.
- Agile Experience: Daily Standups/Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives, and daily peer code reviews. Proficiency in these areas is important, especially at the senior level and above, where we expect individuals to lead and engage in these agile ceremonies effectively.
- Soft Skills: Problem-solving abilities, effective time management, willingness to learn and seek assistance, openness to daily feedback from multiple perspectives through Pull Request reviews, and the ability to peer review other team members.
- Bonus Qualifications:
- Azure AD B2C Custom Policy Development
- Docker/Kubernetes experience
- AWS/Google Cloud Development Experience
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong self-motivation and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to context switch between multiple concurrent projects.
- Outstanding mentorship and coaching skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Positive attitude and willingness to share ideas openly.
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