Lead Software Engineer

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.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Lead Software Engineer.

Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates independently or as a team lead, selects appropriate persistence technologies (e.g., EF, Dapper), defines source control strategies, and designs subsystem infrastructure.

Work & Complexity: Tackles complex problems with thorough analysis, manages cross-functional delivery, and improves system reliability and scalability.

Quality & Independence: Consistently meets deadlines even under challenging conditions, enforces standards through detailed reviews, and establishes productivity benchmarks for the team.

Teamwork & Communication: Provides functional leadership by setting objectives, organizing resources, resolving conflicts, and engaging confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.

Consulting & Engagement: Troubleshoots advanced client issues, supports requirements gathering, and contributes to vendor presentations or proposal activities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Lead Software Engineer.

We are seeking a skilled Full-Stack Developer with strong expertise in Microsoft technologies and modern front-end frameworks. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in building scalable web applications (C#, REST APIs. SQL, Docker containerization), working across the full software development lifecycle, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), OOD, and design patterns

Proficiency in C#,.NET, ASP.NET,.NET Core

Hands-on experience with ReactJS, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 and modern fronted/backend integration patterns

Experience in building and consuming scalable RESTful APIs, including authentication using OAuth or OpenID Connect

Experience with modern databases (PostgreSQL, MS SQL – SQL/T-SQL preferred)

Experience with Docker containerization, including container definition, deployment, and testing.

Strong experience writing unit and integration tests and building highly tested, reliable systems.

Ability to participate effectively in peer code reviews, both giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Strong problem‐solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate in fast‐moving, cross‐functional teams.

Demonstrated commitment to delivery, ownership, and producing maintainable, evolvable solutions.

Strong desire to learn, adapt, and apply technology pragmatically to deliver real business value.

(Nice to have) Experience designing systems that are maintainable, extensible, and production‐ready.

(Nice to have) Experience with Agile/Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, API management, performance monitoring.

(Nice to have) Exposure to event‐driven architectures.