Lead Software Engineer
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Location: West Los Angeles, CA
Worksite: Hybrid, minimum 3 days per week onsite
About WCT
WCT is a global talent solutions partner committed to delivering high-impact technology and engineering talent to some of the world's most innovative companies. As a WCT employee, you'll be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented culture that values collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence in execution.
Job Summary
WCT is seeking a Lead Engineer, Software Development with deep expertise in .NET, C#, SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure cloud technologies.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who is passionate about building scalable, cloud-native applications, modernizing legacy systems, and driving Azure migration initiatives.
The position will operate within an AI-enhanced software development lifecycle, where engineers use AI tools and copilots throughout requirements gathering, development, testing, and code modernization.
This position is classified as structured hybrid, with an expectation of a minimum of three days per week working from the West Los Angeles office and flexibility to work remotely on the remaining days. Onsite expectations may evolve over time based on business needs, with advance communication provided.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support stack.
- Design, develop, and oversee large-scale software systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term scalability. Make high-level design choices and establish coding standards, design patterns, and architectural principles for the engineering organization
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
- Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to the development of monitoring and alerting systems.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.
- Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
- Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality
- Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change favor configurability over customization.
- Manage software development projects, including planning, system analysis, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting complex issues
- Operate in an AI driven SDLC environment and familiarity with AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot or similar tools.
- Work closely with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust technical designs and ensure software meets user needs
- Drive adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and development methodologies, and develop prototypes or proofs-of-concept to mitigate implementation risks
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong portfolio of work showing experience developing secure and standards-compliant code across multiple platforms.
- Advanced experience in several of the following languages/platforms/libraries: C#, .NET, SQL, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and Key Vault), container technologies, and caching frameworks.
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications.
- Strong expertise in event-driven (Service Bus, Event Hubs) and microservice based architecture patterns.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues, work independently, and provide innovative solutions
- Hands-on experience with leveraging and implementing observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with a passion for quality, learning, and mentoring
- Ability to handle a fast-paced environment for iterative project turnarounds on mission & revenue critical, customer-facing applications
- Deep knowledge in Git, DevOps, Agile Scrum, and security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
- Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.<
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