Lead Software Engineer (.NET)

What You’ll Do Technical Strategy and Technology Selection: Create, revise, and maintain the technical and technological strategy. Initiate and conduct Proof of Concepts (PoC) to evaluate and select new libraries, frameworks, and critical components (e.g., caching, security) Detailed Technical Design and Documentation: Analyze requirements from a technical perspective, develop detailed technical designs, and create/maintain Architectural Decision Records (ADR) to formalize the micro-architecture of the ACL domain Domain Leadership and Security Baseline: Lead the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACL), ensure security measures comply with best practices, and define the security baseline for the application, including basic threat modeling Code Quality, Standards, and Mentorship: Develop, implement, and enforce uniform standards (including Secure Coding Practices), create the reference implementation for the team, and actively drive the technical development of team members Development and Code Review: Write code, conduct code review, manage pull requests, and negotiate code improvements with the development team Technical Health and Optimization: Monitor and manage technical debt, proactively suggest strategies for code and architecture optimization Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Verification: Define, monitor, and ensure the actual fulfillment of requirements related to performance, scalability, and fault tolerance Monitoring and Environment Design: Define which metrics, logs, and critical security events should be tracked and trigger alerts (acting as the stakeholder for DevOps) and closely cooperate with DevOps on initial environment setup Technical Communication: Foster open communication with stakeholders (PO, BA, etc.) regarding technical aspects of the project and analyze technical feedback from the team Technical Onboarding: Develop and conduct technical introductory courses for new team members What You Bring Strong .NET backend engineering background Experience with .NET Framework and understanding of differences between .NET and .NET Framework Strong knowledge of at least one relational database engine including data access and performance (SQL query tuning, index-aware design, denormalized data patterns) Strong understanding of design and architectural patterns Great understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous communication patterns Understanding of microservices and containerized applications, experience with Docker and Swarm or Kubernetes Knowledge and understanding of at least one of key Public Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) Ability to lead a team of developers Observability strategy (metrics, tracing, logging conventions) and production operations mindset Nice to Have Familiarity with Kubernetes operational constraints (resource limits, scaling behavior) Familiarity with policy/relationship-based authorization systems Hands on experience with WCF Experience with PostgreSQL Knowledge of AWS Experience building endpoints for authorization decisions Experience with large-scale migrations Legal & Hiring Information Exadel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion across minority, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and more Reasonable accommodations are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions Please note: this job description is not exhaustive. Duties and responsibilities may evolve based on business needs