Hybrid Senior .NET Team Lead - Trading & Financial Systems

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• Job title: Senior .NET Team Lead - Trading & Financial Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Provo, United States

About the role

• Senior .NET Engineer Team Lead for PredictIt overseeing backend engineering team and systems. Leading high-quality service development and ensuring system performance in financial domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead a backend engineering pod focused on mission-critical services (order lifecycle, market data, financial workflows, and platform APIs).
• Own technical execution for your area: design, build, ship, and operate high-availability services in production.
• Drive service architecture and patterns (APIs, messaging, caching, data models, failure handling) with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Perform high-signal code reviews that improve maintainability, correctness, and long-term system integrity.
• Provide leadership for engineers on the team: regular 1:1s, coaching, performance feedback, and support for growth and accountability.
• Lead incident prevention and response: observability, profiling, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Manage team Scrum: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, delivery tracking, and removing blockers in coordination with Product.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional experience building enterprise-grade applications in the .NET ecosystem.
• Strong proficiency with C#, ASP.NET (MVC/Web API), OOP, and layered/service-oriented architectures.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery for backend systems (as a team lead, tech lead, or senior engineer owning a domain).
• Proven ability to build performant, reliable services under real-world load (high-transaction systems strongly preferred).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (idempotency, retries, consistency, queues/streams, caching, and graceful degradation).
• Experience using code reviews as a leadership function to raise quality and level up engineers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and cloud architecture (Azure preferred).
• Strong communication skills—able to align teams, write clearly, and make pragmatic tradeoffs.

Benefits

• health coverage
• paid holidays
• 401(k)
• PTO
• hybrid/remote flexibility
• an office with great views