Engineering Manager (.NET Core, Azure PaaS)

Overview: 

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. 

 As an Engineering Manager, you will take an active ownership role in leading several development teams in architecting, implementing, and managing Guidepoint’s growing Azure presence. The purpose of the role is to focus on delivering highly available, scalable enterprise PaaS-based solutions. 

This position can be remote in the United States.  Ideal candidates MUST be comfortable working EST hours. 

Your Day-to-Day Will Include 💻:

• Develop and support scalable web/API applications using.NET core and Azure Platform Services
• Build new applications/services/platforms
• Refactor legacy components using innovative/scalable platform
• Develop, lead, and manage on/offshore engineering teams 
• Participate in agile SDLC meetings with other engineering teams (Full-stack, QA, DevOps, and Product teams)
• Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
• Decompose portions of the legacy application into APIs running on App Services. 
• Work with large database schemas that would include adding and updating tables and rows
• Write Unit tests and documentation 

 Minimum Technical Qualifications✔️:

• 5+ years in an engineering manager role along
• In-depth knowledge of service-oriented architecture, object-oriented programming, MVC, and other design patterns
• Understanding Git concepts such as branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution utilizing Bitbucket or Github
• Prior experience leveraging issue-tracking systems/wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Willingness to learn designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
• Must be hands-on enough to code review and roll up sleeves as an individual contributor under force majeure. Yet effectively delegate and manage resources, timelines, and deliverables.
• Lead teams through disaster recovery drills

Preferred Technical Qualifications✔️:

• 12+ years of experience developing software using C# and .NET tech stack
• Hands-on experience with Azure platform services:
• WebApps, WebJobs, Functions, API Management
• Service Bus, Event Grid, Azure SQL
• CosmosDb Key Vault, Azure DevOps
• Active Directory, ILB, Application Gateway/WAF
• Storage Account, Private Link
• Comfortable with Powershell. Ansible, Terraform, and ARM Templates are a plus
• Understanding using/crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart

Soft Skills Required✔️:

• Maintain problem solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Independent contributor with drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks
• Strategic thinker
• Manages projects and uphold quality on a deadline
• Exhibits judgement when it comes to prioritization and overall team management
• Proven effective leadership skills

What We Offer📈:

The annual base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $225,000. Base salary may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as geographic location. Additionally, this position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on performance.

You will also be eligible for the following benefits:

• 15 PTO Days, 10 legal holidays, and sick days
• Comprehensive Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Will match up to 10% of employee contribution for 401(k), life insurance, paid time-off and parental leave plans
• Commuter benefits and a corporate discounts
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
• Friday happy hour, “Summer Fridays”, and free snacks and beverages in the office
• Year-round corporate athletic league
• Casual work environment, team building, and other social events

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint, a leading expert network firm, connects clients with vetted subject matter experts—Advisors—from their global professional network. Guidepoint clients leverage the insights and perspectives shared by Advisors to stay informed and make better business decisions. Its slate of services, including phone consultations, surveys, events, and proprietary data insights products, helps professionals gain a comprehensive understanding of a topic before making strategic or investment decisions. Guidepoint’s multinational client list includes 9 of the top 10 consulting firms and some of the largest hedge funds, private equity firms, and Fortune-ranked public companies. For more information, visit www.guidepoint.com.

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