Lead Developer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer

Job Title: Lead Developer

Duration: 12+ Months Contract (Strong possibility of extension).

Location: Phoenix, AZ – Hybrid Position

• The Lead Developer mentors developers, manages a small development team, and provides advanced technical analysis and recommendations.
• The Lead Developer analyzes and evaluates information systems and modifies them to meet customer and business needs.
• Responsibilities include designing, developing, coding/programming, debugging, installing, documenting, troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining information systems.
• This role includes supervisory duties such as approving timesheets, conducting performance evaluations, and holding regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports.

• Essential Job Tasks (This is not an all-inclusive list of all job duties that may be required; employees will be required to perform other related duties as assigned.)
• Interacts in a team setting with co-workers including other programmers, database administrators and business analysts.
• Develops SSRS and Power BI reports of high complexity and scope, while adhering to documented development standards.
• Works independently to develop solutions for complex business and technical problems.
• Supports deployment of applications into production and maintain after release.
• Coordinates with other team members to brainstorm and create new processes for the Judicial Branch to use in day-to-day operations.
• Focuses continually on developing business knowledge and product/feature expertise.
• Utilizes source control to label, package, and deploy applications utilizing best practices procedures/techniques.
• Follows industry practices of analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance/production support of custom applications software.
• Tests developed applications for accuracy, efficiency, and stability.
• Coordinates with other team members to assist on a variety of other development needs and practices.
• Mentors and trains less experienced staff members, conducts performance evaluations, approves timesheets, and holds regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
• Assists on customer support issues resolving any application issues and/or errors.

• Experience leading or managing small development teams in an Agile environment, including task assignment, sprint planning, timesheet approval, performance evaluations, and code review.
• Two (2) or more years of hands‑on Angular/Type Script development experience.
• Experience with Angular framework upgrades and legacy modernization (e.g., AngularJS to Angular, .NET Framework to .NET Core).
• Hands‑on experience with Docker containerization of .NET applications, including Docker file authoring, Docker Compose for local development, and deploying to container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns including message queuing (IBM MQ), SOAP/WSDL web service consumption, and real‑time communication (SignalR).
• Full‑stack development experience in a fast‑paced, Agile government or court technology environment with multi‑generation codebases.
• Experience with reporting technologies such as SSRS and Power BI.
• Experience using agentic AI coding tools and workflows to enhance development productivity and code quality.
• Background in court, justice, or public‑sector application development.

• Relational database design, stored procedure development, and query optimization using SQL Server, including multi‑schema architectures and stored procedure naming/versioning standards.
• N‑tier, layered, and microservices architecture patterns, including fluency in core design patterns such as repository, unit‑of‑work, dependency injection (Unity, ASP.NET Core DI), and service decomposition strategies.
• C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API 2, and ASP.NET Core, including REST API design, controller routing, and middleware pipelines.
• Angular (v8+) and Type Script, including component architecture, services, RxJS observables, and framework upgrade planning.
• AngularJS (1.x) legacy maintenance and migration strategies for transitioning to modern Angular.
• Entity Framework, Auto Mapper, and data…