Tech Lead (C#) - Contractor in New York or North Carolina vicinity

We believe that the future of financial advice is personal, scientific and beautiful – these three ideals drive everything that we do.

AdvisorEngine is a leading wealth management fintech platform that creates a unified experience across financial advisors, investors, and business management personnel. Our wealth management platform enables financial advisors to deliver an engaging, personalized client experience and to operate at scale through smart automation.

Our team is made up of designers, enterprise technologists, data scientists, futurists, and business builders. We are based in NYC and Raleigh, NC. If you love data and are driven to create the future of financial advice, we’d love to hear from you.

AdvisorEngine is looking for a .Net Lead who will be a hands-on team lead for our CRM team. The lead will be in charge of a team with React, C# as the main technologies. The candidate must possess a solid development background to provide guidance to the technical team and facilitate technological decisions. The lead will work collaboratively with other development leaders, quality assurance, and product management staff to deliver high quality applications on a regular schedule. They will act in a consulting role for teams and projects across the company to ensure understanding of standards, best practices, and architecture/design/guidelines.

• →Proven track record successfully being a team lead of development staff using an agile methodology
• →Demonstrated ability to be the senior developer on a team coordinating and ultimately owning all deliverables of the team.
• →Strong knowledge retention capabilities
• →Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills
• →Teamwork and the ability to interact and communicate successfully with business partners, technology team, offshore staff, and professional services.
• →Strong innovation, creativity, and problem-solving skills
• →Experience with situations requiring issue intervention
• →Strong estimation skills providing accurate estimates with defined risks and planned mitigations
• →Demonstrated ability to facilitate technical discussions and drive solutions forward to achieve business needs
• →Ability to multitask, context switch, and succeed in a fast paced, dynamic environment with many moving parts and a large variety of responsibilities
• →Strong ability to drive an agile process within a team to develop and test iteratively

• Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related technical field
• Experience leveraging AI-driven development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude code, etc) to accelerate code generation, refactoring, and unit testing
• Strong experience developing C# .NET, ASP.NET (10y+)
• Experience with MS SQL, relational databases (10y+)
• Experience with TypeScript. Javascript, ReactJs (5y+)
• Experience with .NET Core and microservices
• Experience with API mechanisms (swagger)
• Strong experience of at least 8 years in SQL (MsSQL or PostgreSQL or similar)
• Experience/understanding developing and/or working with front end technologies, containers & container orchestration (Kubernetes), SQL databases, encryption and CD/CI pipelines
• Strong analytical ability to quickly debug complex issues with a variety of system debugging tools
• Ability to grasp difficult concepts, large architectures, and sophisticated designs quickly
• Ability to provide short tactical and long term strategic solutions and provide the risks associated with each
• Experience with configuration management

• Experience with continuous integration and deployment
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with financial services or brokerage industry

• Strong familiarity with best practices around logging, monitoring, and self healing applications
• Experience working with resources in different geographical locations