At Lexipol, our mission is to create safer communities and empower the individuals on the front lines with market-leading content and technology. Our top-notch team works closely with law enforcement, fire, EMS, corrections, and local government professionals to tailor our solutions to better address today’s challenges and keep first responders coming home safely at the end of each shift. Working at Lexipol means making a difference – day in and day out. The Performance Reporting team owns and advances a mission-critical application suite used by public safety agencies for collecting and reporting on performance including use of force, training, vehicle pursuit, internal affairs and more. As a Lead Developer, you will be a hands-on technical leader focused on expanding our performance reporting product which is called Shield. You will also be responsible for maintenance, reliability, integrations, and delivery within a secure, CJIS-compliant environment. You’ll guide offshore contractors day-to-day, make strategic and tactical technical decisions aligned with architectural direction, and serve as a U.S.-based point of contact for sensitive production work that cannot be reproduced in development or staging environments. Much of the near-term roadmap centers on integration work—both product-to-product integrations across Lexipol’s portfolio and integration points with external (typically state-level) reporting agencies used by our customers. Additional projects include improvements to observability, building out scalable async job capability, and modernizing some of our existing components. This is done through working in these areas of focus: Key Performance Objective #1 (30%) – Deliver Reliable Software Design, implement, and build new product modules Improve client-facing integration points for reliability and compliance. Propose opportunities for improving maintainability, reliability, performance and security of existing code Collaborate with the Lead Architect and Chief Architect to ensure consistency with overall architectural direction Proactively identify work required to keep libraries, frameworks, and licensed software up-to-date Key Performance Objective #2 (25%) - Provide technical leadership for offshore contractors Act as the primary technical point of contact, clarifying requirements, reviewing code, and mentoring contractors to maintain quality and consistency. Engage directly with the offshore development team during core agile ceremonies (stand-ups, refinements, retrospectives, planning) to provide technical guidance and unblock work. Deliver features and enhancements in C#/.NET 8, maintaining the legacy monolith and related services while enforcing quality standards through reviews and mentoring. Review and comment on product requirements documents including providing input on high level estimates Contribute to recruiting and onboarding Key Performance Objective #3 (20%) - Ensure platform stability and secure production support Handle sensitive production issues in a CJIS-compliant manner, restore data where necessary. Participate in regular review, triage, and estimation of incoming customer issues (after first being screened by the CS department) Monitor the application’s health using tools like CloudWatch, Xray, and Datadog, and create and advocate for tickets stemming from issues that surface from this monitoring Own the triage, response efforts, and companywide communication in the event of production incidents such as site outages, production bugs requiring hotfixes, and other critical issues Key Performance Objective #4 (15%) - Contribute to architectural discussions Participate in design discussions, providing tactical technical input aligned with architectural direction, without owning the architect role. Ensure that day-to-day technical decisions are aligned with product-wide and company-wide technical direction. Write and maintain technical specifications and other technical documentation relevant to the legacy application and the projects undertaken, including creating Jira tickets for tech debt work and projects that originate within the technology organization. Key Performance Objective #5 (10%) – Act as Point of Contact for QA, DevOps, and Release Management Coordinate testing efforts with QA lead, particularly during final testing before, during, and after scheduled releases Be directly involved in biweekly production and staging releases, collaborating with DevOps to execute both manual and automated parts of our deployment pipeline.