Lead .Net Developer - Need Locals to FL only

Lead .Net Developer

Onsite 2 days a week in Orlando, FL

6-month contract to start

Success Outcomes

Within the first 90 days, this individual will:

• Establish and deploy the foundational GraphQL platform in a non-production environment (if not already completed by the time they onboard).
• Deliver reusable patterns for onboarding new services and domain modules.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization frameworks.
• Establish logging, monitoring, tracing, and resiliency standards.
• Define GraphQL governance and schema management practices.
• Enable channel teams to consume platform capabilities through governed GraphQL contracts.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead technical decisions for the DDEV BFF platform they must be able to understand the application architecture inside and out.
• Establish coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Design GraphQL schemas and service integration patterns.
• Drive decisions related to security, scalability, observability, and resiliency.
• Mentor engineers through technical reviews and coaching.

Engineering & Platform Development

• Develop and maintain .NET-based GraphQL services.
• Design integrations with downstream platform services.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and service governance capabilities.
• Build reusable platform components and shared frameworks.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational standards.
• Partner with DevOps teams on CI/CD, containerization, and deployment automation.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and Platform teams.
• Support technical planning and delivery activities.
• Drive alignment with our key stakeholder, David, and engineering teams.
• Contribute to architectural documentation and onboarding materials.

TGS Expectations

• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for technical delivery.
• Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactively identifies risks and mitigation strategies.
• Operates independently while fostering team collaboration.
• Balances strategic thinking with hands-on engineering execution.
• Builds scalable solutions that support long-term platform growth.

Skills and Tools Needed

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Lead Engineer or Principal Engineer role.

Expert-level experience with:

• C#
• .NET / Core
• REST APIs
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems
• Dependency Injection
• Asynchronous programming

Strong experience with:

• GraphQL (Hot Chocolate)
• Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
• API governance and contract management
• Service orchestration and aggregation
• Authentication and authorization frameworks
• OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT
• Resiliency patterns including Circuit Breaker, Retry, and Fallback

Cloud & DevOps

• Azure
• Azure DevOps
• CI/CD pipeline implementation
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code concepts
• OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Datadog, and/or Elastic

Quality Engineering Practices

• Unit and integration testing
• Contract testing
• Test automation
• Code quality and static analysis tools
• Observability and monitoring best practices

Leadership Skills

• Strong technical leadership
• Mentoring and coaching experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise GraphQL platforms or gateways
• Consumer-facing digital products
• Hospitality, travel, entertainment, commerce, or media environments

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.