Tech Lead, Software Engineering (.NET. React)

AAPC is the world’s largest and fastest-growing healthcare training, certification, and solutions association. They are seeking a Software Engineering Tech Lead to provide technical leadership, project execution, and people leadership for a team of software engineers, combining hands-on development with accountability for technical direction and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical delivery of software projects using C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, React, and modern web technologies
• Enforce engineering standards, development practices, and architectural guidelines defined by technology leadership
• Contribute to application designs, database designs, APIs, and code to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and security
• Make technical trade-offs and architectural decisions that balance business needs, delivery timelines, and long-term maintainability
• Identify and mitigate technical risks before they impact delivery, quality, or system performance
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, and backend services
• Lead the development of modern user experiences using React and related frontend technologies
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, queries, indexing strategies, and data access patterns
• Drive implementation of automated testing, code quality controls, and secure development practices
• Participate directly in software development and remain hands-on with application architecture and implementation
• Establish engineering practices that improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability
• Ensure applications meet performance, scalability, availability, and security requirements
• Drive adoption of monitoring, diagnostics, and operational tooling to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution efforts for production incidents and critical defects
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and mentorship for software engineers
• Conduct performance management activities including goal setting, feedback, career development, and performance evaluations
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and development of engineering talent
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for the engineering team
• Partner with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans
• Communicate technical decisions, project status, risks, and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders
• Contribute to roadmap planning and help define the future technical direction of applications and platforms

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience developing enterprise applications
• 7+ years of strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and RESTful API development
• 5+ years of strong experience with MS SQL, PostgreSQL database design, optimization, and performance tuning
• 2+ years of experience developing modern web applications using React and related frontend technologies
• 5+ years of experience leading software delivery Scrum teams in C#, .NET
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and software quality practices
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, distributed systems, and API design
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Proven experience leading engineers through technical mentorship and people management responsibilities
• Strong understanding of application security, performance optimization, and scalability practices
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills