Lead Software Engineer (Platform)

Platform & Cloud Foundations:

• Establish and evolve our Azure approach for SaaS products.
• Introduce pragmatic infrastructure practices that improve repeatability and clarity.
• Define baseline security and operational hygiene appropriate for government-adjacent software.

Delivery, Reliability, and Observability:

• Define and implement CI/CD and release workflows that support frequent delivery and safe rollback.
• Establish observability standards (logs, metrics, traces), with dashboards and alerting that shorten time-to-diagnosis.
• Lead and improve incident response practices and ensure follow-up work translates into measurable reliability improvements.

Backend Architecture & Implementation:

• Help shape backend patterns aligned with vertical slice architecture, keeping boundaries clear and complexity low.
• Contribute to backend services and APIs in C#/.NET as needed, emphasizing maintainability and operational clarity.
• Guide data access practices using EF Core and SQL Server (migrations, safe change management, performance fundamentals).