Lead Engineer — Application Engineering

Job Description

As a Lead Engineer in Application Engineering, you will own the day‑to‑day technical leadership of a small application development scrum team focused on building new features and enhancing current capabilities within the Certent Equity Management (CEM) platform for a large, strategic enterprise client engagement. Reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager, you will split your time roughly equally between writing and reviewing code and leading your team – setting priorities, unblocking teammates, running scrum ceremonies, and holding the team accountable for high‑quality delivery.

This is both an IC role and a Management role. The right candidate is a seasoned engineer who leads by doing – someone whose technical credibility earns the team’s respect and whose organizational discipline keeps delivery on track. You will be the daily technical authority for your squad and also responsible for their career development. You will partner closely with the Sr Engineering Manager on delivery planning and escalations, and interfacing with client stakeholders at key points in the delivery lifecycle.

You will bring an AI‑first mindset – not just complying with organizational AI adoption targets, but genuinely integrating agentic development tooling into how you and your team work every day.

• Technical Leadership & Delivery
  • Serve as the technical authority for your scrum team – making day‑to‑day engineering decisions, setting the bar for code quality, and ensuring the team delivers high‑quality software on schedule.
  • Write, review, and contribute production‑quality code across the full stack – C#/.NET, Angular, and Oracle – as an active, hands‑on member of the team.
  • Lead sprint ceremonies as scrum master: planning, refinement, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.
  • Set daily priorities for the team; actively unblock teammates by removing dependencies, clarifying requirements, and resolving technical ambiguity.
  • Hold the team accountable to engineering standards – unit testing, code review discipline, definition of done, and release readiness.
  • AI‑First Engineering Champion: •≥50% AI‑authored PR targets and ≥95% AI code review adoption as organizational minimums for your team.
    • Model an agentic development mindset – integrating AI tooling into your own daily workflow and actively coaching teammates to do the same.
    • Push the team beyond baseline AI adoption into workflows and practices that measurably improve delivery velocity and code quality.
    • Stay current on agentic development tooling and bring forward‑looking recommendations to the Sr Engineering Manager.
• Team Leadership & People Management
  • Directly manage four to five engineers – owning 1:1s, performance feedback, career development conversations, and day‑to‑day engagement.
  • Partner with the Sr Engineering Manager on hiring decisions, onboarding, and performance management for your team.
  • Identify and grow technical talent within your squad – coaching engineers on both technical skills and professional development.
  • Foster a collaborative, high‑accountability team culture that takes quality seriously and supports each other’s success.
• Client Engagement & Requirements
  • Interface with client stakeholders at key points in the delivery lifecycle – requirements clarification, design reviews, demo feedback, and issue resolution.
  • Dig into root business problems rather than accepting requirements at face value; advocate for solutions that generalize across the CEM platform rather than one‑off client‑specific builds.
  • Partner with the Sr Engineering Manager and Product Management to ensure work is well‑defined, properly scoped, and sequenced for delivery.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Coordinate with matrixed QA engineers to ensure test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness are met.
  • Collaborate with Principal Engineers, the Solution Architect, 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 experience in enterprise SaaS environments, with…