Lead .NET Engineer (#1462)

We are looking for a Lead .NET Engineer who can become a part of our enthusiastic team and contribute new ideas to product development. Our client is a leading digital health company delivering a range of evidence-based digital psychological therapy programs to those affected by mental health-related issues. It is a friendly, driven, and ambitious company that blends science, therapy, and creativity, and provides great variety and challenge in a collaborative environment. Reaching more people and treating more patients is central to their vision. In order to help achieve this, we need great minds with a drive to succeed and a willingness to think outside the norm and try new things.
 
Our team uses cutting-edge technology and data science to make best-in-class mental health treatment available to everyone, anywhere, and at times convenient to each of our patients.

Tech stack: C#, .NET Core 3.x, Functions, Azure Services, Event Grid, DevOps pipelines, MS SQL Server & CosmosDB, React

Description of the role

• Work with Design, Product and Engineering teams to define technical solutions to product challenges in an outcome-focused approach
• Design and document new services
• Identify and develop system-wide improvements in security, performance and efficiency
• Coach and mentor members of the team
• Implement, document and improve standards and practices that drive outstanding software development across the team
• Make tactical and strategic technical decisions
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA and maintenance
• Amplify your impact by proactively sharing your knowledge and experience levelling-up others

Responsibilities

• Designs solutions to high complexity problems, with high-availability and high-reliability in mind
• You have a deep understanding of the landscape of our codebases, components, and services
• You are up to date with the landscape of technologies and techniques and able to evaluate their impact on the organization and its products and services
• Typically at least 6 years of experience as a professional programmer in the specific domain
• You have a mastery of your primary languages and frameworks
• You will be the primary driver of resolving production issues, holding post-mortems, and owning long-term fixes
• Shapes broad architecture; ships multiple large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure
• Produces documentation to a very high standard
• Exhibits a deep understanding of our products, how customers use them, and how they fit into the larger business
• Takes on initiatives that address performance issues and work with the QA team on initiatives that would simplify life for our developers and contributors
• Has a deep understanding of the importance of non-functional aspects of software engineering
• Provides guidance to others regarding how to properly address security issues and vulnerabilities.

Approach and Impact

• Understands the business and makes decisions based on its direction
• Actively addresses cross-team challenges related to customers, quality and security
• Continually works with others across the organisation to help team members grow their understanding of their team’s domain and technology stack
• Maintains consistently high standards in technical work
• You will own large components, systems, or projects, coordinating and communicating with teams and leads across the organisation
• You play a key role in hiring and promoting the organisation as an employer
• You understand and drive techniques for improving engineering productivity
• You are actively pushing back on over-engineered solutions. Conversely, you are advocating for improving under-implemented solutions
• You will instigate design discussions and facilitate engineering-wide learning
• A record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Able to take on complex requirements and decompose them into a proposal of small deliverables
• Makes sound judgements about when to diverge from the immediate goal to achieve something important

Communication and Leadership

• Communicates maturely, professionally, clearly and effectively when working with others
• Can explain our application architecture, infrastructure, and codebase to others
• Sought out by colleagues across the business for technical guidance
• Sought out for technical guidance; anticipates technical issues at the product level and makes architectural and design decisions to avoid them
• You are actively seeking out opportunities to teach and mentor fellow team members
• You are a picture of responsibility and accountability
• Listens and guides debates to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicates and backs that decision
• Helps set and maintain professional standards for the entire organisation
• You will represent engineering across the organisation
• Amplifies the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
• Leads incident resolutions
• Makes sound decisions on appropriately facilitated & managed delegation tasks
• Represents ieso at conferences/events

Requirements

Essential: 

• Considerable experience of developing stable, performant, accessible cloud-native applications
• Significant working experience with C#, .NET and common data-stores (e.g. MS SQL, CosmosDB) 
• Significant working experience with commercial Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Practical understanding of industry standard development principles and practices (SOLID, CI/CD, unit testing, secure development (OWASP) etc.)
• A UX design-led sympathetic approach to developing applications
• Systems thinking
• User or developer experience mindset (UX / DX)
• Comfort and experience working in cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments
• At least ten years’ experience of commercial software development
• Willingness and ability to take on new technologies
• Strong analytical skills and desire to write clean, testable and efficient code
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction through verbal and written communication skills
• Sense of ownership, urgency and pride in your work

Desired:

• Line management experience of a small number of software engineers
• Working experience of UK and US healthcare systems
• Experience or knowledge of UK or US regulations in the Healthcare sector