Lead Software Engineers

Valorem Reply is an award-winning digital transformation firm focused on delivering solutions around data-driven enterprise, IT modernization, customer experience, product transformation and digital workplace by leveraging the power of Microsoft technologies. We provide hyper-scale and agile delivery of unique digital business services, strategic business models and design-led user experiences. Our innovative strategies and solutions securely and rapidly transform the way our clients do business.  

Use technology to engineer solutions that creatively solve problems to deliver business value, with a focus on teamwork and project success. The role requires a broad and deep capability to map a client's problem domain to a fully developed end state solution. Our clients’ needs require technically strong consultants who are resourceful, communicate well, and have good problem-solving skills. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of modern application development techniques and frameworks and good experience using the Microsoft technology stack for development. As part of a team that provides project-based consulting, you will have the opportunity to work in multiple industry verticals, working on multiple teams and projects. 

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of a team of talented developers, business analysts, QA analysts and Project Managers building solutions for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 Clients.  You will participate in the development life cycle including development, testing, and implementation. You will work together with the Architect, Project Managers and Business Analysts to understand the business requirements and build a software solution. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with the Architect to develop detailed designs that implement the Architect’s overall vision. You will communicate and implement those designs to the Software Engineers, monitoring, and leading daily progress. Coordination with other Lead Software Engineers to ensure sufficient, coherent communication and collaboration across work streams on large projects. The position requires strong software development skills and background. In addition to lead functions, you will develop systems hands on, taking on the most technically complex and difficult development activities, and enabling the team to work collaboratively to complete.  

• Mentor and guide the team members in enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity. 
• Understand project scopes, architectural diagrams and requirements to further breakdown more granular requirements and implementing them as part of a project team. 
• Continuously improving while adhering to process compliance of the company, team and project. 
• Solve technically complex problems and prioritize tasks based on technical knowledge. 
• Act as the point of escalation for Software Engineers and other technical delivery roles within project teams. 
• Facilitate and coordinate appropriate and effective communication channels within their project team, and across teams through the other Technical Team Leads.  
• Promote the organization's present technology within a team.  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science; Computer Engineering: Information Technology; or related field and 5 years of experience in Microsoft & Open-Source Technologies including:
• C#, including development, diagnosing, and debugging, Classes, Interfaces, Delegates and Events, Generics, Anonymous methods and lambda expressions, Exceptions, transactions and error handling, .NET Framework 3.5 and higher. 
• Database development, in SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher: T-SQL, Tables and Views, Procedures and Functions.
• Of this five years, 3 years of experience in the following:
• Web Service Development (WebAPI, Microservices). 
• Entity Framework and LINQ. 
• Developing web-based interfaces, including: MVC, Angular and HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Typescript,multi-device and form factor Single Page Applications. 
• Microsoft Azure, including Web Apps, SQL Azure,Service Bus, Queues and Topics, Azure Management, including deployments, configuration and SDK. 
• Implementation of software design patterns, including Basic OO concepts such as encapsulation and abstraction, SOLID principals such as single responsibility, dependency injection and interface driven design.  
• Team Foundation Server, Git and/or VSO, including source control, build and task management. 
• Code reviews, source control and release management. 
• Instrument, profile, debug, and optimize server and client code to resolve complex issues with distributed systems.  
• Adept at task switching to handle varying workload, while meeting tight deadlines.

Positions based out of HQ in Kansas City MO. Hybrid WFH 90% WFO 10% within Kansas City, MO or Dallas, TX metro areas. Criminal background check is required.

Multiple positions are available.

About Reply

Reply specializes in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Reply is a network of highly specialized companies supporting global industrial groups operating in the telecom and media, industry and services, banking, insurance and public administration sectors in the definition and development of business models enabled for the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services. 

Reply is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to provide equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you need assistance and reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, email us at jobusa@reply.com. Visit our website at www.reply.com to learn more about our open roles.