Lead Full-Stack Engineer (.NET/React) - AI-Powered Features

MMD Services, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

MMD Services is partnering with a highly successful legal firm in Chicago on a newly created Lead Software Engineer seat. You will own the full-stack applications built on .NET, React, Next.js and Azure, including AI-powered features that help lawyers and staff work more effectively.

This hands-on leadership role requires writing and reviewing code, setting engineering standards, making architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers while partnering with product managers and stakeholders

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of progression into a lead, staff, or principal-level role.
• Strong full-stack development skills across .NET and C#, React, Next.js, and REST or GraphQL API design.

Aufgaben

• Lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React and Next.js, and Azure, with ownership from architecture through production support.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security, and hold the team to them through active code authorship and thorough code review.
• Make architectural decisions for new features and systems, weighing trade-offs and ensuring solutions are maintainable, observable, and built to scale.
• Lead the integration of AI and GenAI capabilities into firm applications, including LLM-powered features, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, semantic search, and agentic workflows.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and ongoing feedback.
• Work with product managers, designers, and architects to turn business requirements into clear technical plans and realistic delivery milestones.
• Own the reliability of production systems. Set observability standards, lead incident response, and see issues through to root cause.
• Apply security best practices across the stack, including authentication, authorization, and data protection, with particular care given the sensitivity of legal data.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure on CI/CD pipelines, container platforms including Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Apps, and cloud deployment patterns.
• Stay current on relevant technologies and bring well-reasoned recommendations to the team.
• Participate in hiring, including technical interviews and onboarding new engineers.

Kenntnisse

.NET/C#

React

Next.js

REST API

GraphQL

Azure

CI/CD

Leadership

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Tools

Azure App Service

Azure Container Apps

AKS

Azure SQL

Service Bus

Azure OpenAI Service

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Cosmos DB

Docker

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

MMD Services is partnering with a highly successful legal firm in Chicago on a newly created Lead Software Engineer seat. You will own the full-stack applications built on .NET, React, Next.js and Azure, including AI-powered features that help lawyers and staff work more effectively.

This hands-on leadership role requires writing and reviewing code, setting engineering standards, making architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers while partnering with product managers and stakeholders