Senior Director, Software Development

Aegistech; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-based technology firm in Denver is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the authentication domain. This role demands 15+ years of expertise, focusing on cloud-based solutions, container technologies, and leadership in agile environments. The ideal candidate excels in .NET Core and microservice architecture, ensuring high-quality software delivery and effective team collaboration. They will also mentor peers and maintain tech partnerships, significantly impacting the company's innovative projects. This full-time position is ideal for those prepared to advance industry standards.

Qualifications

• 15 or more years of increasing responsibility in technical roles.
• Excellent business judgement for prioritizing and collaboration.
• Experience with container runtimes and management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technological and administrative responsibilities.
• Provide thought leadership in technology direction and services.
• Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery of products.
• Mentor and coach teammates in knowledge sharing.

Skills

Container-based technologies

.NET Core

REST-based APIs

Microservice architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Strong communication skills

Education

15+ years in technical roles

5+ years as a development lead

Tools

Storm

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Our client is a leader in AI-based technology, which helps engineering leaders build the right connections across their teams and workflows, so they can focus on designing for a world that runs faster, cleaner, safer, and smarter for everyone.

Important business drivers for the software we create include reliability, scalability, elasticity, evolvability, and maintainability. These drivers have motivated both the use of principles from domain-driven design for decoupling and the use of microservices with containerized cloud-based deployments as an important software architecture. DevOps is integral to microservices architecture, enabling high‑quality software to be developed and delivered quickly. We are committed to the DevOps model, where time‑to‑market functions as a vital measure of our performance, productivity, and success. We improve and innovate constantly, always investigating new technologies that can enhance our product offerings.

Position Summary

Our client is seeking an experienced, driven Principal Software Engineer for our authentication domain. The candidate has extensive experience in the authorization and authentication domain, as well as experience with developing and deploying native cloud‑based solutions, possesses a passion for container‑based technologies, immutable infrastructure, and continuous delivery practices in deploying global commercial software. As a Principal Software Engineer, you are also skilled in executing multiple programming languages and techniques across frameworks, API, and persistence layers by strategically deploying the right tool for the right job to address fast‑paced business requirements. You are hands‑on and committed to actively engaging with a global, agile delivery team. You will present and communicate team status to the Technology leaders and the Executive team.

Job Responsibilities

• You will assume technological and administrative responsibilities for a scrum team.
• Provides thought leadership in technology direction, technical services, vendor partnership, and industry standards adoption.
• Champion the appropriate use of technology and provide leadership in balancing technical elegance with functional requirements and practical benefits, as we implement and integrate technologies.
• Assume a leadership role in ensuring on‑time, high‑quality delivery of products through the entire application life cycle.
• Improve and maintain continuous deployment methodologies, including working with SQA teams to enforce unit, regression, and integration testing.
• Cultivate, build, and maintain partnerships with peers in development, IT, business, and with relevant experts.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to teammates and promote knowledge sharing and communication across product development teams.
• Maintain an excellent understanding of the business's long‑term goals and strategy, and ensure that designs are aligned with these.

Education/Experience

• 15 or more years of increasing responsibility in technical roles, with five or more years of experience as a development lead in an agile environment.
• Excellent business judgement, you know how to prioritize, when to collaborate, and when to seek assistance.
• Existing experience with container runtimes and container management systems such as Kubernetes.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of programming languages with an exceptional understanding of the core project language, .NET Core.
• Experience in Microservice architecture and development, including REST‑based APIs.
• Experience with various authentication and authorization models and experience integrating and developing software solutions for identity management platforms such as ForgeRock and Okta.
• Experience developing software for high‑volume data ingestion using technologies such as Storm, Kafka, and Redis.
• Cloud experience with deploying and integrating cloud native applications with several providers
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to function well when working in somewhat ambiguous situations
• Experience working with search applications is a plus.
• Real‑World experience architecting and developing SaaS/PaaS applications using C# .Net/Core
• Strong, effective communication skills as to bring multiple personalities and cultures together to work towards a common goal

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology

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