Lead Engineer — Application Engineering

insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that unlock the potential of business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate.

• Act as the technical authority for the scrum team, making day‑to‑day engineering decisions and setting a high standard for code quality.
• Write, review, and contribute production‑quality code across the full stack – C#/.NET, Angular, and Oracle – as an active, hands‑on team member.
• Lead sprint ceremonies as scrum master: planning, refinement, daily stand‑ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Set daily priorities, unblock teammates, and remove dependencies to keep delivery on schedule.
• Maintain engineering standards: unit testing, code review discipline, definition of done, and release readiness.
• Champion AI‑first engineering: achieve ≥50% AI‑authored PR targets and ≥95% AI code review adoption, model agentic development practices, and coach teammates.

• Directly manage 4–5 engineers, owning 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and day‑to‑day engagement.
• Partner with the Sr Engineering Manager on hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Coach engineers on technical skills and professional development, fostering a high‑accountability team culture.

• Interface with client stakeholders at key points in the delivery lifecycle – requirement clarification, design reviews, demo feedback, and issue resolution.
• Advocate for solutions that generalize across the Certent Equity Management platform rather than one‑off builds.
• Ensure work is well‑defined, scoped, and sequenced for delivery in collaboration with Product Management.

• Coordinate with QA engineers to ensure test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Solution Architects, and peer Lead Engineers on cross‑team technical decisions and standards.
• Surface delivery risks, technical blockers, and scope concerns to the Sr Engineering Manager early and clearly.

• 8–10+ years of hands‑on software engineering in enterprise SaaS environments with experience as a technical lead or lead engineer.
• Deep full‑stack expertise in C#, .NET (Framework and/or Core), Angular, and Oracle.
• Strong proficiency in Domain‑Driven Design and CQRS patterns for multi‑service architectures.
• Demonstrated AI‑first engineering mindset and hands‑on experience with agentic development tooling.
• Experience leading a scrum team as both technical authority and delivery owner.
• Direct people management experience: performance feedback, career development, and team engagement.
• Strong code review discipline and engineering quality standards, including unit testing and CI/CD hygiene.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies and Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines.
• Fluent communicator capable of engaging client stakeholders and translating technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience working in global, distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

• Familiarity with .NET modernization patterns (legacy ASP.NET Web API and modern ASP.NET Core services).
• Experience with schema migration tooling such as Liquibase.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling – Serilog, Datadog APM, or Application Insights.
• Experience with containerization tooling – Docker, Podman, or similar.
• Experience with background job scheduling patterns (Hangfire or similar).
• Experience across multi‑repo, multi‑product platforms sharing a common database and internal NuGet package ecosystem.
• Background in financial…