As a Principal Engineer / Technical Lead, you will lead the design, development, and testing of software products in the Microsoft stack in the EdTech. Leveraging our unique proprietary data, advanced learning science techniques and the power of LLMs, you will lead the team to design and implement a full-scale LXP application. The ideal candidate is a hands-on principal level software engineer with leadership experience.

Responsibilities:

• The candidate will use their strong technical skills to help lead the product development needs of our LMS/CMS
• As a Principal Engineer / Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the design, development, and testing of software products in the Microsoft stack
• You will be responsible for the definition of software requirements for complex systems, recommend new frameworks, and lead teams to help provide the project’s technical vision
• Your team will be responsible for work in all stages of SDLC, from reviewing requirements, architecture, to design, to develop and test, to deployment
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Help team(s) in building future cloud native solutions
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in the back-end infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Motivate and lead software engineering development team

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 4+ Years of demonstrated development tech/team leadership
• 8+ years’ software development experience in C#/.NET and various UI frameworks
• Develop high-quality code adhering to the best coding practices as laid down by the company
• Able to produce well-thought-out architecture with scale, performance, security, and availability considerations
• Work closely with the project team to create schedules, identify assignments, and provide updates
• Work with C#, ASP.Net, Postgres, AWS technologies such as SQS, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, among other technologies.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• The ideal candidate will have experience working in a EdTech space.
• AWS certification is highly desirable.