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As products migrate, more engineering capacity will be directed toward the Modernization lane.\r\nRole Overview As our Lead Software Engineer (Platform), you will lead the platform work in our Modernization lane – Azure environments, CI/CD, observability, and safe releases – and contribute to backend services in C#/.NET to support reliable delivery. This is a senior-level individual contributor role (no direct reports) with high ownership and influence over platform standards and backend architectural patterns. \"Lead\" reflects technical scope and mentorship responsibilities, not people management. During the CTO's planned parental leave, you will be the primary day-to-day decision-maker for Modernization platform and architecture work, with documented context and clear decision rights. Our new backend stack is C#/.NET using vertical slice architecture, backed by EF Core + SQL Server, running in Azure. We value engineers who actively reduce complexity, design clear interfaces, and build systems that are easy to understand and change. Good judgment matters more than strict adherence to any one framework; we value clarity over ceremony.\r\nKey Responsibilities Platform & Cloud Foundations\r\nEstablish and evolve our Azure approach for SaaS products (environments, identity/access patterns, secrets management).\r\nIntroduce pragmatic infrastructure practices that improve repeatability and clarity (infrastructure-as-code where it adds value).\r\nDefine baseline security and operational hygiene appropriate for government-adjacent software.\r\nDelivery, Reliability, and Observability\r\nDefine and implement CI/CD and release workflows that support frequent delivery and safe rollback.\r\nEstablish observability standards (logs, metrics, traces), with dashboards and alerting that shorten time-to-diagnosis.\r\nLead and improve incident response practices and ensure follow-up work translates into measurable reliability improvements.\r\nBackend Architecture & Implementation\r\nHelp shape backend patterns aligned with vertical slice architecture, keeping boundaries clear and complexity low.\r\nContribute to backend services and APIs in C#/.NET as needed, emphasizing maintainability and operational clarity.\r\nGuide data access practices using EF Core and SQL Server (migrations, safe change management, performance fundamentals).\r\nTeam Enablement & Engineering Culture\r\nMentor domain-expert engineers transitioning to modern stacks and practices, and help establish working agreements that make modernization sustainable (code review, pairing, technical guidance, standards-by-example).\r\nProduce lightweight runbooks and architecture notes so knowledge is shared and durable.\r\nPartner with the CTO and product/design leadership to sequence platform work that enables product delivery (without over-engineering).\r\nQualifications 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant backend and systems ownership.\r\nStrong C#/.NET experience building production services and APIs.\r\nExperience operating production workloads in Azure (e.g., App Service, Functions, containers, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Storage).\r\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and modern release practices.\r\nStrong SQL fundamentals; experience with EF Core and SQL Server in production environments.\r\nDemonstrated ability to design simple interfaces, reduce accidental complexity, and make pragmatic tradeoffs.\r\nStrong communication skills; able to teach, mentor, and align stakeholders on technical decisions.\r\nNice to have (not required) Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM/etc.).\r\nExperience modernizing legacy systems into SaaS products.\r\nExperience in regulated, security-sensitive, or audit-heavy environments.\r\nWhy Join Us Establish the platform and operational foundations for one of the most significant transformations in our company's history.\r\nWork directly with the CTO and have clear ownership over foundational engineering decisions, with meaningful influence on architecture and delivery practices.\r\nBuild the delivery system – deployments, observability, and reliability – that enables multiple SaaS products to ship consistently over the next decade.\r\nPartner closely with product design and engineering peers to modernize complex, real-world government workflows.\r\nJoin early and help shape the modernization effort; an additional wave of mid-level engineering hires will follow after two cornerstone senior hires.\r\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage with CIC paying 75% of monthly premiums\r\n401(k) with Company Contributions\r\nVacation, sick leave, and paid holidays to support work-life balance\r\nA Culture Index survey will be sent to you via email upon completion of the application This must be completed in order to be considered for the position. 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