Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer (.Net, React, Typescript) Reports to Chief Technology Officer About Us Insurwave is a disruptive Insurtech company leveraging the power of AI to consolidate and visualise data, helping clients to understand risk and make smarter risk transfer and insurance decisions. Our platform offers an integrated insurance management experience, from ai-driven data ingestion through to collecting and consolidating risk data providing insight on business exposure changes in real-time. Role Purpose As a Lead Software Engineer, the candidate will directly report to the Chief Technology Officer and will lead a small development team responsible for building a green-field platform using .NET stack and React, running in Kubernetes on Azure. The team is self-sufficient and fully responsible for design, development, testing, delivery and support of the solutions. The candidate will empower the team to make the decisions and take ownership of the services they build along with ensuring the team follows the company-wide rules of engagement and standards. The candidate will support team members' growth and promote an open, learning culture. Key Responsibilities Lead a small team responsible for design, build, deploy and supporting SaaS services Work with business areas to ensure that built solutions are aligned to requirements, delivered according to plans and developed with expected quality and security standards Work closely with Product Owner to ensure that requirements are well understood by the team and developed solutions are properly demonstrated to the Product Owner before delivery Empower and help the team in efficient design, development, delivery and production-support Enable learning culture, promote continuous feedback and improvement Deliver high quality solutions using fully automated processes (CI/CD, testing, infrastructure as code) Skills and Experience Experience of leading development teams working in agile development model (Scrum or Kanban) Exceptional communication and leadership skills, demonstrated ability to form effective working teams and maintaining healthy, learning culture within it Experience with CI/CD pipelines, TDD and pipeline automation Very good experience with various testing stages for APIs In depth understanding of microservice architecture and how to use it to build applications Knowledge of good practices, design patterns and SOLID principles Good understanding of application design and strong problem-solving skills Knowledge of .NET stack - C#, ASP.NET Core Web Apis, LINQ, asynchronous and parallel programming, dotnet tools Knowledge of relational and No-SQL databases and integrations patterns with them Experience with event driven architecture Knowledge of React stack - React, Node, Typescript, CSS, Material UI, Jest, JSS and supporting tools Desirable Knowledge of Azure ecosystem Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools Focus on performance and knowledge of performance profiling tools Developing solutions with security mindset Experience with CosmosDB and Postgress Experience with Figma