Lead Software Engineer

Direct Care Innovations LLC is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive architectural decisions and provide hands-on development for the DCI Software product line. This onsite role in Mesa, Arizona places you at the center of a small engineering team, serving as the final escalation point for production issues while shaping scalable, secure software that supports the company's mission-driven goals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software development, QA, and DevOps groups to deliver high-quality technology solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team, designing and building solutions for DCI Software’s most significant technical opportunities.
• Mentor junior engineers to foster growth and skill development.
• Create modern, architecturally robust components, tools, and applications aligned with strategic business objectives.
• Incorporate characteristics like scalability, manageability, and maintainability into distributed frameworks to enhance capabilities.
• Apply industry best practices to identify, fix, and prevent vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Lead with a culture of innovation and accountability while following Agile methodologies.
• Research and prototype new or alternative software approaches to improve product quality.
• Assist in ITIL-based process development and improvement efforts.
• Contribute to additional projects or duties as assigned.
• All DCI employees participate in maintaining a compliant cybersecurity posture by staying familiar with policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines and acting accordingly.
• Maintain utmost care and due diligence to ensure proper compliance for all computer, server, and cloud systems.
• Protect sensitive information across creation, storage, transmission, and processing, implementing safeguards and reporting anomalous activity or vulnerabilities.
• Support the management and monitoring of attacks and intrusions, as well as forensics and related activities.

Requirements

• 5+ years building large-scale, highly reliable, Internet-facing applications using Microsoft technologies.
• 2+ years in a leadership role, either as a team lead or technical lead.
• 7+ years of experience with software development using .NET technologies (C#, ASP.NET/.NET Core).
• 7+ years of hands-on work with MS SQL or similar SQL databases, including T-SQL, stored procedures, and schema design.
• 5+ years of cloud experience, preferably with Azure, leveraging PaaS and IaaS offerings.

Technologies

• .NET (C#, ASP.NET/.NET Core)
• MS SQL / SQL Server
• T-SQL
• Azure (PaaS / IaaS)
• Git (Bitbucket)
• JIRA
• Lucid Chart

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off
• Incentive bonuses