Lead​/Principal Engineer - Application Engineering

Job Description

As a Lead Engineer within Application Engineering, you will provide day‑to‑day technical leadership for a small, dedicated scrum team focused on building and enhancing features within the Certent Equity Management (CEM) platform for a large enterprise client engagement.

This role blends hands‑on engineering and people leadership. You will spend approximately half your time writing and reviewing production code and the other half leading delivery—setting priorities, running scrum ceremonies, removing blockers, and ensuring high‑quality, on‑time execution. You will also bring an AI‑first engineering mindset, actively integrating modern, agentic development tooling into daily workflows and coaching your team to do the same.

• Serve as the technical authority for the scrum team, making day‑to‑day engineering decisions and setting expectations for code quality and delivery.
• Write, review, and contribute production‑quality code across the full stack (C#, .NET, Angular, and Oracle).
• Lead all agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Set daily priorities and actively remove blockers by resolving technical ambiguity, clarifying requirements, and managing dependencies.
• Enforce strong engineering standards including unit testing, code reviews, definition of done, and release readiness.

• Champion organizational AI adoption targets, including AI‑assisted code creation and review practices.
• Model an agentic development mindset by integrating AI tooling into daily engineering workflows.
• Coach and mentor team members on effective use of AI tools to improve velocity and code quality.
• Stay current with emerging AI development tools and recommend improvements to engineering leadership.

• Directly manage a team of four to five engineers, including 1:1s, performance feedback, and career development conversations.
• Partner with the Sr. Engineering Manager on hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Identify, develop, and mentor technical talent within the team.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable culture focused on quality and continuous improvement.

• Interface with client stakeholders during requirements clarification, design reviews, demos, and issue resolution.
• Analyze underlying business problems and advocate for scalable platform solutions rather than client‑specific customizations.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to ensure work is clearly defined, scoped, and sequenced.

• Coordinate with QA engineers to ensure appropriate test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Solution Architects, and peer Lead Engineers on shared technical standards and decisions.
• Proactively surface delivery risks, technical blockers, and scope concerns to leadership.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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• 8–10+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical lead or lead engineer role.
• Strong full‑stack expertise in C#, .NET…