Full Stack Development Lead

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

This posting is part of our ongoing talent pipeline initiative. While there may not be an immediate opening, we are actively building a network of qualified candidates for future opportunities. If you're interested in being considered when a role becomes available, we encourage you to submit your resume.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Works across multiple languages and platforms, designs and implements architectural decisions, applies design patterns, cloud-native services, IAAS/PAAS/SAAS basics, and secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10).

• Work & Complexity: Performs complex tasks under limited guidance, integrates and troubleshoots distributed or cloud services, and optimizes performance and scalability.

• Quality & Independence: Sets a high bar for code quality, multitasks effectively, owns and corrects errors quickly, and drives continuous improvement.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads code reviews, mentors teammates, and translates technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Consulting & Engagement: Works directly with clients without oversight, writes technical RFP content when needed, nurtures client relationships, and manages routine client concerns.

The Lead acts as a hands-on practice leader. This role contributes directly to the team's success, acquires domain knowledge, and engages with solution architects and product owners as a technical SME to ensure alignment of strategic direction for the technology managed within their area.

• Work in a team with other smart AIS employees using cutting-edge technologies to solve challenging business problems.

• Build elegant, scalable, extensible, cost-effective solutions with an eye toward innovation and agility.

• Utilize problem-solving and decision-making skills to understand client pain points and to self-troubleshoot as challenges arise.

• Collaborate with other development team members and project managers to deliver solutions that surpass client expectations while meeting deadlines and budgets.

• Design, write, unit test, and document application code to successfully deliver project-based work.

• Work in an agile environment with participation in daily stand-ups/scrum. 

• Design, write, test, troubleshoot, and document application code 

• Provide mentorship to junior Developers. 

• Learn new technologies and know industry standards, best practices, and trends.

• 10+ years of Software engineering and design experience with large scale business applications in a fast-paced iterative development environment.

• 5+ years’ experience leading software design in teams of 5+ team members.

• 5+ years of experience in public cloud (Azure). 

• 2+ years of Technical leadership/Consulting background Technical Skills preferred.

• Experience with C#, .NET, React, data structures, basic algorithms, and applying object-oriented principles and design patterns.

• Strong API design and development skills. Proficiency with development tools such as Visual Studio and Git.

• Proficiency with relational databases craft and query construction and optimization (we use SQL Server and PostgreSQL; other RDBMS (Relational Database Management Systems) experience is acceptable.

• Strong understanding of architectural principles of software development, modelling, and security. 

• Strong understanding of the deployment pipeline tools.  

• Sound understanding of Graph, modern security models and integration with Services (like Hasura) and RDBMS skills.  

• Solid understanding of Authentication models to help drive integration of the Authorization technologies with with our Clients data sources to obtain and run user data.

• Observability skills, scripting skills, automation, pipeline CI/CD experience, DevOps Azure/AWS.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.