Team Lead, Software Development - 4

We are looking for a Team Lead Software Engineer with strong software product development experience and the ability to lead feature delivery, guide engineering decisions, and support a high-performing development team. The role requires hands-on full-stack development expertise on Microsoft .NET technologies, strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and distributed teams. The Team Lead is expected to balance individual technical contribution with people leadership, mentoring, delivery ownership, and cross-functional coordination.

• Strong product development experience and knowledge of product development processes.
• Ability to own and lead different product feature areas from requirements through release.
• Ability to work across parallel release cycles while managing team execution and delivery risks.
• Strong communication skills to interact with stakeholders, clarify requirements, and drive alignment.
• Ability to collaborate with teams across different geographical locations and time zones.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft .NET development platform and related technologies.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services is preferred.
• Full-stack .NET development experience with interest in system integrations and data exchange techniques.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, business processes, microservices architecture, and event-driven design is preferred.
• Familiarity with security best practices including OWASP guidelines, secure coding, authentication, and authorization frameworks such as OAuth, SAML, and JWT.
• Comfortable in agile development environments with adaptability to evolving requirements and timelines.

A Typical Day in the Life Includes:

Engineering Delivery and Technical Execution

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain product features and components across the application stack.
• Translate high-level design into low-level design, implementation plans, impact analysis, and task estimates.
• Write comprehensive unit tests and support automated testing practices to improve code quality.
• Perform code walkthroughs and reviews to ensure code paths are covered, dead code is removed, and implementation aligns with specifications.
• Ensure sufficient instrumentation, logging, and diagnostics are built into the code for supportability and debugging.
• Run performance tests, optimize code, eliminate memory leaks, and improve scalability of critical workflows.
• Assist in CI/CD pipeline activities and ensure product builds are stable and release-ready.
• Debug and fix defects identified during development, testing, production support, and customer issue investigation.
• Partner with Support teams on issue diagnosis, root-cause analysis, workaround identification, and permanent resolution.

Team Management and People Leadership

• Provide day-to-day technical direction to engineers, helping the team prioritize work, remove blockers, and maintain steady delivery progress.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, task breakdown, and execution tracking in collaboration with the manager, product owner, and scrum team.
• Monitor development progress, identify delivery risks early, and escalate issues with clear context, options, and recommendations.
• Promote engineering discipline across the team by encouraging strong design reviews, code quality, test coverage, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Create an inclusive and collaborative team environment where engineers can ask questions, share knowledge, and contribute effectively.
• Help onboard new team members by explaining product architecture, development practices, release processes, and domain context.

Technical Leadership and Architecture

• Lead technical discussions for assigned feature areas, including architecture choices, integration patterns, API contracts, data flow, security considerations, and scalability needs.
• Guide the team in applying design patterns, microservices principles, event-driven design, secure coding practices, and cloud-native engineering standards.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and recommend pragmatic solutions that balance maintainability, performance, security, timelines, and business priorities.
• Own quality gates for assigned modules, including design completeness, code review readiness, testability, observability, deployment readiness, and support handover.
• Drive technical debt identification and remediation plans while ensuring ongoing feature delivery is not compromised.
• Stay hands-on with development and troubleshooting, especially in complex, high-risk, or cross-component areas.

Mentoring and Capability Building

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging sessions, and structured knowledge-sharing discussions.
• Help junior and mid-level engineers improve estimation, problem decomposition, coding standards, testing habits, and ownership mindset.
• Encourage reuse of common components, shared engineering practices, and consistent documentation across the team.
• Provide timely, constructive technical feedback to help team members improve delivery quality and engineering maturity.
• Identify skill gaps and recommend learning opportunities related to .NET, AWS cloud services, integrations, security, performance, and AI-enabled product capabilities.

Project Ownership and Delivery Accountability

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned initiatives, features, or technical workstreams from requirements clarification through design, build, testing, release, and post-release support.
• Ensure scope, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and acceptance criteria are understood before implementation starts.
• Coordinate with QA, DevOps, Support, Product Management, Architecture, Security, and dependent engineering teams to ensure smooth delivery.
• Track commitments, communicate progress periodically, and ensure stakeholders have visibility into status, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Support release readiness activities, including build validation, deployment checks, defect triage, production monitoring, and rollback or recovery planning where applicable.
• Drive root-cause analysis for recurring defects or production issues and convert findings into preventive engineering improvements.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Engage with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, support teams, and cross-functional engineering teams to clarify requirements and align on implementation approach.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and delivery status clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Represent the engineering team in design discussions, sprint ceremonies, release discussions, issue triage, and customer-impact analysis as required.
• Escalate deviations from specifications, design assumptions, UI mockups, timelines, or quality expectations with proposed resolution options.
• Ensure team documentation, design notes, release notes, and support handover information are accurate and maintained.

Basic Qualifications:

• Hands-on Microsoft .NET development experience, including C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Web API, web services, and related frameworks.
• Experience with SQL Server, XML standards, JavaScript/JQuery, API integration, and service-based application development.
• Good understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code practices, and maintainable application architecture.
• Experience with Git-based configuration management and modern development workflows.
• Good understanding of AWS cloud technologies such as Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, Textract, Bedrock, and related cloud services.
• Experience with microservices architecture, event-driven systems, distributed processing, performance optimization, scalability, and observability.
• Good understanding of Python and machine learning concepts is preferred.
• Good to have experience with Generative AI technologies, including frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face, and integration of AI/ML models into software applications.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, document processing, system integrations, and business workflows is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

Leadership Expectations

• Ownership mindset: Takes accountability for outcomes, not just assigned tasks, and follows through until issues are resolved.
• Execution discipline: Balances technical quality with delivery timelines and keeps the team focused on priorities.
• Decision quality: Makes practical engineering decisions using data, technical judgment, and stakeholder context.
• Coaching orientation: Invests time in mentoring team members and raising overall team capability.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across functions, locations, and release cycles while maintaining transparency.
• Operational readiness: Ensures features are supportable, observable, secure, scalable, and production-ready.
• Continuous improvement: Identifies recurring problems and drives improvements in process, architecture, automation, and engineering practices.

To Be Successful You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of software development experience, with demonstrated ability to lead feature areas or technical workstreams.
• Strong hands-on technical capability with Microsoft .NET, cloud services, APIs, integrations, and modern engineering practices.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with multiple teams, geographies, and stakeholder groups.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, review designs, guide implementation, and improve technical quality.
• Good team player with a collaborative approach and willingness to support team members during critical delivery or production issues.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, clarify requirements, break down complex work, and drive execution in agile environments.
• Strong customer and product mindset, with focus on quality, maintainability, performance, security, and supportability.

Success Measures

• Feature work is delivered with clear ownership, predictable execution, and minimal avoidable rework.
• Code quality, test coverage, documentation, observability, and support readiness improve across assigned areas.
• Team members receive timely guidance, blockers are addressed quickly, and engineering practices become more consistent.
• Stakeholders receive clear communication on progress, risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs.
• Production issues, recurring defects, and technical debt are actively analyzed and converted into improvement actions.