Lead Software Engineer (.NET)

Exadel

11h

About The Position

Exadel is an AI-first global tech company with over 25 years of engineering excellence, employing more than 2,000 professionals across 500+ active projects for Fortune 500 clients like HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. They partner with enterprise leaders on projects ranging from AI platforms to digital transformation. The company fosters a culture of trust, respect, open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship. The client for this project is a global leader in financial and audit software solutions, assisting thousands of organizations worldwide in modernizing workflows, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing data integrity. The project itself focuses on the design and development of a robust, scalable, and maintainable Access Control List (ACL) system.

Requirements

Strong .NET backend engineering background
Experience with .NET Framework and understanding of differences between .NET and .NET Framework
Strong knowledge of at least one relational database engine including data access and performance (SQL query tuning, index-aware design, denormalized data patterns)
Strong understanding of design and architectural patterns
Great understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous communication patterns
Understanding of microservices and containerized applications, experience with Docker and Swarm or Kubernetes
Knowledge and understanding of at least one of key Public Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Ability to lead a team of developers
Observability strategy (metrics, tracing, logging conventions) and production operations mindset
English level Intermediate+

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Kubernetes operational constraints (resource limits, scaling behavior)
Familiarity with policy/relationship-based authorization systems
Hands on experience with WCF
Experience with PostgreSQL
Knowledge of AWS
Experience building endpoints for authorization decisions
Experience with large-scale migrations

Responsibilities

Create, revise, and maintain the technical and technological strategy.
Initiate and conduct Proof of Concepts (PoC) to evaluate and select new libraries, frameworks, and critical components (e.g., caching, security).
Analyze requirements from a technical perspective, develop detailed technical designs, and create/maintain Architectural Decision Records (ADR) to formalize the micro-architecture of the ACL domain.
Lead the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACL), ensure security measures comply with best practices, and define the security baseline for the application, including basic threat modeling.
Develop, implement, and enforce uniform standards (including Secure Coding Practices), create the reference implementation for the team, and actively drive the technical development of team members.
Write code, conduct code review, manage pull requests, and negotiate code improvements with the development team.
Monitor and manage technical debt, proactively suggest strategies for code and architecture optimization.
Define, monitor, and ensure the actual fulfillment of requirements related to performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
Define which metrics, logs, and critical security events should be tracked and trigger alerts (acting as the stakeholder for DevOps) and closely cooperate with DevOps on initial environment setup.
Foster open communication with stakeholders (PO, BA, etc.) regarding technical aspects of the project and analyze technical feedback from the team.
Develop and conduct technical introductory courses for new team members.