Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Chicago, IL

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience
• .NET (C#)
• React (or Next.js)
• Microsoft Azure
  Azure App Service
  Azure Container Apps/AKS
  Azure SQL
  Azure Service Bus
  Azure OpenAI Service
• Must have built production applications in Azure from the ground up.
• System design and cloud architecture.
• REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Microservices and distributed applications.
• SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, or similar.
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).

Preferred

• Workflow automation platforms (n8n, Temporal).
• AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code preferred, Codex also relevant).
• Enterprise software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/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 (RAG) 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 (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps), and cloud deployment patterns.