Job Description
Job Title: .Net – Technical Lead
Location: Hybrid (Mandatory Onsite)
Eligible Locations: Texas, Fort Mill, SC, or San Diego, CA
Role Overview:
Technical Lead is a senior, hands-on engineering leader responsible for designing, building, and supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient backend systems within a fast-paced fintech/trading environment. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong cloud experience, and the ability to lead by example while managing complex production systems and mentoring engineering teams.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with a strategic mindset who thrives in high-pressure environments, actively participates in incident management, and drives continuous improvement across architecture, performance, reliability, and security.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Engineering
- Lead the design, development, and support of backend systems using modern distributed architectures
- Build and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient services critical to trading and financial platforms
- Provide hands-on development and code-level leadership across services, APIs, and middleware
- Guide architectural decisions, design patterns, and technology selection aligned with business needs
- Participate in production incident calls, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
- Drive performance optimization, system reliability, and operational excellence
- Ensure secure application design and adherence to best practices for data protection and compliance
Core Technical Skills & Stack
- Strong backend engineering expertise with deep AWS cloud experience
- Proficiency in .NET (C#), microservices, middleware, and API-based architectures
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and distributed messaging systems
- Strong understanding of modern frameworks, libraries, and design patterns
- Proven experience designing high-availability, low-latency, resilient distributed systems
- Front-end experience with Angular is a plus but not required
- Bonus experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability, and auxiliary services
Leadership & Experience
- 7–10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven ability to lead as a hands-on technical leader, not solely a people manager
- Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to operate under pressure
- Prior experience in financial services, trading, or fintech environments is strongly preferred
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders
- Manage competing priorities and scope while maintaining delivery timelines
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards, practices, and processes
Work Environment & Location Requirements
- Hybrid work model with mandatory onsite presence
- Candidates must be local to or willing to work onsite in Texas, Fort Mill (SC), or San Diego (CA)
Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.
Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status