Lead Software Engineer III .Net

Overview:   

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint aims to make individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.   

 As a Lead Software Engineer (.NET Core, Azure PaaS), you will take an active ownership role in leading several development teams in architecturing, implementing, and managing Guidepoint’s growing Azure presence. The purpose of the role is to focus on delivering highly available, scalable enterprise PaaS-based solutions.   

Your Day-to-Day Will Include 💻:  

• Develop and support scalable web/API applications using.NET core and Azure Platform Services  

• Build new applications/services/platforms  

• Refactor legacy components using innovative/scalable platform  

• Develop, lead, and manage on/offshore engineering teams  

• Participate in agile SDLC meetings with other engineering teams (Full-stack, QA, DevOps, and Product teams) 

• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts 

• Decompose portions of the legacy application into APIs running on App Services.  

• Work with large database schemas that would include adding and updating tables and rows 

• Write Unit tests and documentation  

 Minimum Technical Qualifications✔️:  

•  10+ years of experience developing software using C# and .NET tech stack 
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of Software Engineers 

• In-depth knowledge of service-oriented architecture, object-oriented programming, MVC, and other design patterns 

• Understanding Git concepts such as branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution utilizing Bitbucket or Github 

• Prior experience leveraging issue-tracking systems/wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence) 

• Willingness to learn designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc) 

• Must be hands-on enough to code review and roll up sleeves as an individual contributor under force majeure. Yet effectively delegate and manage resources, timelines, and deliverables. 

• Lead teams through disaster recovery drills 

Preferred Technical Qualifications✔️:  

• Hands-on experience with Azure platform services:  

• (WebApps, WebJobs, Functions, API Management,  

• Service Bus, Event Grid, Azure SQL, 

• CosmosDb Key Vault, Azure DevOps,  

• Active Directory, ILB, Application Gateway/WAF,  

• Storage Account, Private Link 

• Comfortable with Powershell. Ansible, Terraform, and ARM Templates are a plus. 

• Understanding using/crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart 

Soft Skills Required✔️:  

• Problem-solving skills and a proactive work style 

• Strong interpersonal & communication skills  

• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented 

• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks 

• Strategic Thinker 

• Proven effective leadership skills 

What We Have: 

• Competitive compensation 

• Employee medical coverage 

• Central office location 

• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions 

• Casual work environment 

  

About Guidepoint:  

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.  

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.  

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.  

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