Lead Application Engineer

Piper Companies is looking for a Lead Application Engineer to join a thriving insurance company. This is a hybrid position and requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days a week.

 Essential Duties of the Lead Application Engineer:

• Drive multiple projects through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success
• Design and develop web-based applications and micro-services using both front-end and back-end technologies (full stack development), including but not limited to technical design, coding, and unit testing to generate high quality deliverables to achieve product release objectives
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of corporate security procedures and policies for implementation, auditing, and documentation purposes as part of the software implementation process
• Research new technologies and present proposals to management on technologies that would facilitate processing of business or reduce costs to the organization to architects and management

Qualifications of the Lead Application Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required
• 10+ years of software design and development experience with backend services
• 10+ years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language. C# preferred
• 3+ years designing distributed systems
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable

 Compensation for the Lead Application Engineer:

• $165,000 - $185,000 (based on experience)
• Comprehensive benefit package; Cigna Medical, Cigna Dental, Vision, 401k w/ ADP, PTO, paid holidays, sick Leave as required by law

This job opens for applications on 4/20/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

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