.NET Software Engineering Lead

About the role

Our financial client has an immediate need for a position based out of their Edison, NJ area office. They are seeking a hands-on Software Engineering Lead to drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable enterprise applications. This role combines full-stack engineering, solution architecture, cloud technologies, and technical leadership, with a strong emphasis on coding, system integration, and engineering quality. The successful candidate will partner with internal teams, business stakeholders, and external technology providers to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions. This role is perfect for a hands on .NET and React engineer with architectural judgment and technical leadership. This is an individual-contributor leadership role focused on hands-on development, technical ownership, and delivery excellence rather than traditional people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development using C#, .NET, React, and TypeScript, including APIs, backend services, and modern user interfaces.
• Design and enhance enterprise application architectures, integrations, and data flows across internal systems, cloud services, and third-party platforms.
• Provide technical direction throughout the development lifecycle, including architecture reviews, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Mentor engineers, promote coding standards, and improve development practices, documentation, and software quality.
• Support cloud deployments, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, application security, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with product, QA, infrastructure, business, and vendor teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions and ensure successful delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience spanning application design, development, testing, and production support.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, React 18+, TypeScript, and component libraries such as Material UI.
• Experience designing multi-tier applications, developing REST and GraphQL APIs, and working with relational databases and SQL.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, secure development practices, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including architecture and code reviews, mentoring, and coordination with external technology partners.
• Experience with AWS services, including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, and CloudWatch.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, microservices, cloud-native development, and application modernization.
• Background in financial services, investment or asset management, wealth management, or related platforms such as portfolio, trading, or order management systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.