Lead Developer

Ziphire.hr•Chicago, IL

3h•Remote

About The Position

Our client empowers insurance organizations to quickly capitalize on new opportunities by delivering the world’s most configurable, cloud-native, easy-to-use, and intuitively analytical insurance software. Just as importantly, we empower our people—providing the tools, support, and opportunities they need to grow and succeed. We don’t just make bold promises—we deliver results. As the largest cloud-based software provider for the Property & Casualty market, our client is trusted by 22 of the top 25 P&C carriers and 7 of the top 10 wholesale brokers in the MGA space. Behind that trust is a team that delivers exceptional value and deep industry expertise. While our technology sets us apart, it’s our people who truly make the difference. At our client, you’ll collaborate with some of the most creative and knowledgeable minds in insurance tech—in a culture that fosters innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning. Our award-winning onboarding experience welcomes and supports you from the moment you accept our offer. Ready to grow your career with an industry leader? Apply today—they are excited to welcome you. Our client's Next Lead Developer will be a hands-on technical leader for their flagship product leading modernization across the company, owning complex work end-to-end—from estimation and solution design through implementation, testing, and production support—while raising quality via standards, peer review, and technical oversight. This person thrives in the details, can independently design and prototype solutions that reduce codebase complexity and manual validation, and can modernize a mixed stack (existing .NET services plus newer React portals and emerging technologies) without sacrificing reliability. IMS is at an inflection point as we operationalize agentic development workflows and internal automation to accelerate delivery, so the ideal fit is a pragmatic builder who can architect the “how,” dive into the code to execute, and lead effectively across a distributed India + North America team while aligning with US working hours.

Requirements

Experience: 8+ years building and shipping production services/features end-to-end (design delivery support).
Hands-on leadership: Leads through the codebase—estimation, solution design, implementation, reviews, and troubleshooting for complex work.
Core stack: Strong C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core, Web API) + SQL Server; solid Git/PR workflow discipline.
Quality-through-code: Regularly ships with unit/integration/contract tests; expects the same from others; comfortable defining/enforcing quality gates.
Delivery automation: Has personally automated multiple parts of a real codebase (CI/CD, tests, code quality, deploy scripts, DB migrations, scaffolding/code-gen).
Collaboration: Clear communicator who partners well with Product/QA/Ops and can drive technical decisions to closure.
Operating model: Can work effectively across a distributed India + North America team while aligning with US working hours.

Nice To Haves

Modernization: Experience modernizing a mature system while introducing newer tech (e.g., React portals, new services) without destabilizing production.
Cloud: Hands-on cloud experience in Azure (preferred) or AWS/GCP (monitoring/alerting, pipelines, basic IaC concepts).
API/integrations: Strong API design and documentation; integration experience in production.
AI / agentic workflows: Practical experience using AI/agentic dev tooling to accelerate delivery safely (ground-truthing outputs, repeatable workflows, privacy/IP hygiene).
AI in product/platform: Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into products or internal platforms (evaluation, monitoring, guardrails).
Front-end / adjacent languages: React depth; Node.js and/or Python for tooling/automation/integrations.
SOAP familiarity
Insurance domain exposure: policy/billing/claims/underwriting.

Responsibilities

Participate in SDLC estimation and development processes for complex assignments
Responsible for the estimating and planning of projects and solutions
Create impact assessment documentation for proposed changes
Determine and define technical solutions for assigned work
Review other developers’ design solutions
Apply common design patterns appropriately
Create designs that reduce or eliminate maintenance and ongoing manual testing/validation
Reduce complexity in the codebase through thoughtful architecture and refactoring
Create design proposals and provide prototyping support for new problem spaces, highly complex solutions, and new/emerging technologies
Develop solutions for issues and enhancements
Develop technical documentation for targeted audiences, including internal and external customers
Help set coding standards and follow the client standards for coding and documentation
Provide peer review of designs, code, and delivery artifacts
Provide technical leadership and oversight to team members, including third-party partners
Provide in-depth technical troubleshooting, defect investigation, and remediation
Write code and unit tests according to client standards, following an approved technical solution, for enhancements and bug fixes
Develop unit tests for code changes and assigned use cases
Comment code clearly and consistently
Prepare and present technical solutions (e.g., via PowerPoint) to relevant audiences
Prepare and present to stakeholders, including customers
Provide leadership, coaching, mentorship, and technical guidance to team members
Provide performance feedback on team members
Stay up to date on industry and job-related trends and best practices (publications, articles, blogs, etc.)