Lead Engineer — Application Engineering

insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions. As a Lead Engineer in Application Engineering, you will provide technical leadership to a small application development scrum team, focusing on building new features and enhancing current capabilities within the Certent Equity Management platform.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical authority for your scrum team — making day-to-day engineering decisions, setting the bar for code quality, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality software on schedule
• Write, review, and contribute production-quality code across the full stack — C#/.NET, Angular, and Oracle — as an active, hands-on member of the team
• Lead sprint ceremonies as scrum master: planning, refinement, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives
• Set daily priorities for the team; actively unblock teammates by removing dependencies, clarifying requirements, and resolving technical ambiguity
• Hold the team accountable to engineering standards — unit testing, code review discipline, definition of done, and release readiness
• Champion ≥50% AI-authored PR targets and ≥95% AI code review adoption as organizational minimums for your team
• Model an agentic development mindset — integrating AI tooling into your own daily workflow and actively coaching teammates to do the same
• Push the team beyond baseline AI adoption into workflows and practices that measurably improve delivery velocity and code quality
• Stay current on agentic development tooling and bring forward-looking recommendations to the Sr Engineering Manager
• Directly manage four to five engineers — owning 1:1s, performance feedback, career development conversations, and day-to-day engagement
• Partner with the Sr Engineering Manager on hiring decisions, onboarding, and performance management for your team
• Identify and grow technical talent within your squad — coaching engineers on both technical skills and professional development
• Foster a collaborative, high-accountability team culture that takes quality seriously and supports each other's success
• Interface with client stakeholders at key points in the delivery lifecycle — requirements clarification, design reviews, demo feedback, and issue resolution
• Dig into root business problems rather than accepting requirements at face value; advocate for solutions that generalize across the CEM platform rather than one-off client-specific builds
• Partner with the Sr Engineering Manager and Product Management to ensure work is well-defined, properly scoped, and sequenced for delivery
• Coordinate with matrixed QA engineers to ensure test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness are met
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers, the Solution Architect, and peer Lead Engineers on cross-team technical decisions and standards
• Surface delivery risks, technical blockers, and scope concerns to the Sr Engineering Manager early and clearly

Requirements:

• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise SaaS environments, with demonstrated experience in a technical lead or lead engineer capacity
• Deep full-stack expertise in C#, .NET (Framework and/or Core), Angular, and Oracle — able to contribute meaningfully across the entire stack
• Strong proficiency in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) — hands-on experience with domain model layering across application, service, and data access tiers
• Experience with CQRS patterns for command/query separation in multi-service architectures
• Demonstrated AI-first engineering mindset — hands-on experience with agentic development tooling (GitHub Copilot, Devin.AI, or similar) and a track record of driving AI adoption within an engineering team
• Proven ability to lead a scrum team as both technical authority and delivery owner — setting priorities, running ceremonies, and holding teammates accountable
• Experience with direct people management responsibilities — performance feedback, career development, and team engagement for a small team of engineers
• Strong code review discipline and engineering quality standards — unit testing (xUnit/NUnit, Jasmine/Karma), CI/CD hygiene, definition-of-done rigor
• Experience with Angular 15+ including Reactive Forms, RxJS, Angular Material, and TypeScript
• Experience with Oracle databases including PL/SQL development — packages, procedures, views, and query optimization
• Experience with Entity Framework Core including Oracle EF Core provider
• 3+ years of experience with Azure cloud technologies and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Fluent communicator — able to engage credibly with client stakeholders and translate technical realities clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience working in global, distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity with .NET modernization patterns — experience working across legacy ASP.NET Web API (.NET Framework) and modern ASP.NET Core services in parallel
• Experience with schema migration tooling such as Liquibase, including changeset management, rollbacks, and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling — Serilog, Datadog APM, or Application Insights
• Experience with containerization tooling — Docker, Podman, or similar
• Experience with background job scheduling patterns (Hangfire or similar)
• Experience working across multi-repo, multi-product platforms sharing a common database and internal NuGet package ecosystem
• Background in financial services, equity compensation, or adjacent regulated domains
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification
• Experience mentoring mid-level engineers into senior or lead roles