Lead Mobile Developer, .NET Xamarin

Job description:

This role provides technical leadership, including the design, development, and delivery of business technology-enabled applications, products, and services. The Lead Engineer is responsible for meeting project schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements. This role drives proficiency within teams, provides resolution to technical issues, assures best practices are followed, and assists management in meeting strategic initiatives while contributing to smooth business operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinates technical tasks and ensures teams are working efficiently; oversees the development/support of specific IT areas and systems, and timely delivery of projects. (25%)
• Contributes to defining new business requirements; identifies and communicates risks to the business; investigates and proposes new tools and frameworks to deliver quality products faster. (10%)
• Acts as a liaison between project management, technical teams, and IT leadership; assures best practices are defined and followed; drives consistency across applications and projects wherever possible. (5%)
• Manages all aspects of coding for the team branching, code review, ensures code reusability and maintainability with constant refactoring, collaboration with Enterprise Architecture team on standards and approaches. Ultimately accountable for the quality of the code for the project. (10%)
• Coding project deliverables (25%)
• Mentors developers and helps resolve technical roadblocks; conducts collaborative code reviews and coordinates the deployment and implementation of software solutions; recognizes organizational/team challenges and addresses them with management. (20%)
• Available for production application deployment and troubleshooting hours and/or on an on-call basis. (5%)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position does not have formal supervisory responsibility; however, it has overall leadership responsibility for the work of team members in the context of technical leadership.

Decision-making Responsibilities:

This position requires independent decision-making and recommendations within the context of assigned projects, stakeholders, and management teams.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• 8+ years software development experience including creating business applications with relational and non-relational database systems, within a fast-paced software development environment.
• 4+ years of demonstrated experience in a technical lead role.
• 4+ years of mobile application development; Android required
• Advanced knowledge of IT software development methodologies and processes in an agile environment (Scrum).
• 2+ years experience in .NET
• Full-stack development experience using C#, Xamarin/Maui, and React Native
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (Oracle)
• Experience creating and consuming distributed data services (REST APIs, messaging buses) and SOA design patterns.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting feature requirements.
• Experience with multithreaded application design
• Experience working under multiple operating systems like Windows, UNIX (Sun Solaris and Linux), and UNIX shell scripting.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging frameworks for application integration, Google Firebase preferred.
• Experience in production support activities by monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
• Experience in source control management using Git.
• Effective independent, team player, and self-starter with high adaptability to modern technologies.

Additional desirable skills and experience include:

• Transportation and logistics industry experience (desirable).
• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following roles: business analyst, project manager, and data analyst.

JOB RELATED COMPETENCIES: Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills -

• Focus on data-driven analysis for solutioning and problem solving.
• Encourages creative problem solving and lateral thinking to foster innovative solutions.
• Identifies opportunities to increase accuracy and optimize resources; develops/recommends/implements solutions.
• Ability to identify and assess project risks and issues, and drive mitigation planning and issue resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, deliver results, and operate effectively in an Agile environment.

Communication Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills including presentation and active listening skills.
• Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and effectively communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Utilizes a variety of interpersonal styles / communication methods to adapt to new work structures, processes, or cultures.

Business Acumen -:

• Strong business focus with demonstrated ability to act in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of business processes across multiple domains.

Other -:

• High-level learning agility.
• Passionate, self-motivated; works with a sense of urgency under minimal supervision within a fast-paced environment.
• Maintains strict confidentiality, high integrity, and high reliability.
• Ability to bring resolution to highly complex and stressful situations with multiple stakeholders (information technology, operations, engineering, sales, customers/vendors.)
• Ability to lead and motivate professionals to produce high quality results.

Technical Competencies:

• Android
• C#/Xamarin/Maui
• .NET
• React Native
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• Java/Kotlin (preferred)

Skills

.NET, Android, DotNet, MAUI, React Native, Xamarin