Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead - Remote & Impactful

ICF Olson; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Next is seeking a player-coach leader who guides a delivery team responsible for secure .NET applications and modern web experiences. You will stay hands-on while coaching engineers, shaping architecture, and coordinating with stakeholders on data entry, batch ingestion, validation, workflow, and reporting.

You will drive design and implementation across REST APIs, SQL Server structures, and cloud-based deployments, with a focus on performance, reliability, and WCAG compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years developing resilient, well-tested production web applications, including 3+ years using C#, .NET or .NET Core, and ASP.NET MVC or Web API with OO design.
• 2+ years leading or providing technical direction to software engineers, including reviewing code and communicating with stakeholders.
• 3+ years working with SQL Server or another relational database, including data modeling and performance troubleshooting.
• 2+ years developing REST APIs and browser-based apps using JSON, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• 2+ years using automated testing and Git-based development workflows; 1+ year supporting cloud-hosted apps using containers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a delivery team by organizing technical work, priorities, blockers, and coaching.
• Design, develop, and maintain production web apps using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core/MVC, and modern JS/TS.
• Translate product, data, security, accessibility, and operational requirements into designs and plans.
• Guide REST APIs, domain models, SQL Server data structures, queries, and integrations.
• Oversee data entry, batch upload, validation, workflow, reporting, and data download capabilities.
• Set expectations for automated tests, code quality, peer review, branching, releases, and docs.
• Support CI/CD and coordinate app releases with cloud, DevSecOps, database, security, QA teams.
• Lead investigation of production defects and performance issues with logs and monitoring.
• Ensure secure coding, least-privilege access, RBAC, privacy, and WCAG compliance.
• Participate in Agile planning, estimation, demos, releases, and user acceptance testing with stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering standards and mentor less-experienced engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team coaching

Stakeholder communication

Agile planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

C#

.NET / ASP.NET

JavaScript / TypeScript

SQL Server

REST APIs

Git workflows

CI/CD

AWS / GovCloud

Okta IAM

Docker / Kubernetes

Job description

ICF Next is seeking a player-coach leader who guides a delivery team responsible for secure .NET applications and modern web experiences. You will stay hands-on while coaching engineers, shaping architecture, and coordinating with stakeholders on data entry, batch ingestion, validation, workflow, and reporting.

You will drive design and implementation across REST APIs, SQL Server structures, and cloud-based deployments, with a focus on performance, reliability, and WCAG compliance.