Lead Developer

Description:
Substantial career opportunity for lead developer who is flexible and responsive to the changing needs of the business. This position is newly created to address the developing needs of the company to initiate a formal development process.

This position will report to the CTO and have responsibility for software development encompassing design, deployment, and operations. This individual will need to possess substantial previous experience in architecture, design, and implementations of both back office and web-based sites/applications/services, and have the ability to institute a well-ordered development and test process. Familiarity with a range of development philosophies and the ability to articulate and defend a proposed best practice is important. Understanding of formal design methods such as waterfall, ER, UML, etc. is important, as is the ability to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, or suitability of differing approaches. You should be deeply familiar with the requirements to design and build reliable and scalable applications and be capable of managing projects and teams. Prior experience in applications for banking/financial services is a plus.

Responsibilities include:

1. Primary responsibility for architecture and design of internal applications
2. Instituting development platform, tools, and processes
3. Building a unified representation of data across applications and business areas
4. Creating logic/UI for browser-based applications
5. Implementing database procedures
6. Ensuring best practices for rapid and reliable development

Requirements:

1. Transact SQL (other SQL variants a plus)
2. .NET / C#
3. HTML / XML / CSS / Javascript
4. ASP.NET
5. Message infrastructures and event-driven programming
6. Visual Studio and associated technologies/services

1. 8+ years of development experience with substantive exposure to large enterprise
2. Excellent communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills
3. Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
4. Good listener, detail-oriented, and a strong problem solver
5. Experienced in structuring and managing projects
6. Uncompromising integrity

Compensation:
Company prepared to offer a compelling compensation package including competitive base salary, incentives, stock options, and world-class benefits to the final candidate.