DriveCentric · 1 day ago
Sr. Software Engineer, Team Lead (.NET), Application Services
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
7+ years expDriveCentric is the premier customer relationship management (CRM) and AI marketing company that connects automotive dealerships to customers in innovative, award-winning ways. They are seeking an exceptional Sr. Software Engineer to lead their Application Services team, focusing on technical contributions, personnel management, and advancing the Product Platform.
Enterprise SoftwareSoftwareAdvertisingAutomotiveCRMSales
Responsibilities
Perform as a technical contributor 60% of the time, with 20% focus on personnel management and mentorship, and 20% on advancing our Product Platform, the core application services, security architecture, and foundational capabilities that power all DriveCentric products and sit at the center of our feature teams, partner integrations, and internal tooling
Own foundational platform services that support product delivery and enable integration across the application stack, ensuring reliable request routing, rate limiting, IP whitelisting, and middleware functionality for downstream services
Design and maintain secure, scalable systems for the core service, identifying and resolving scalability bottlenecks to reliably support tens of thousands of concurrent users across multi-tenant SaaS deployments
Ensure robust multi-tenant isolation including data boundaries, tenant-aware request handling, and secure context switching between stores
Drive performance optimization across database access patterns, query efficiency, and connection management to ensure the core service meets throughput and latency requirements at scale
Partner with and advocate across feature teams to ensure the core platform provides stable, well-documented interfaces as the sole data access point for downstream services
Solve complex distributed authentication challenges — including session management, token lifecycle, SSO federation, MFA flows, and IP whitelisting — using AWS Cognito across web and mobile clients
In collaboration with Cybersecurity, establish and maintain security excellence standards including SOC II compliance, credential management, audit logging, threat detection, and incident response capabilities
Lead the vision for your team's area of responsibility and align with Sr. Leadership through OKR planning and execution
Provide technical ownership for your team's contributions to meet engineering standards, project requirements, and quality expectations
Mentor team members through monthly touchpoints, performance reviews, and professional development planning
Develop cross-training matrices and enforce documentation standards to guarantee that at least two team members can perform each critical function, eliminating knowledge silos
Establish platform governance and standards for how feature teams consume platform services, including versioning strategies, deprecation policies, SDK/library distribution, and architectural patterns that prevent platform misuse or degradation
Drive platform adoption and enablement through internal documentation, reference implementations, training sessions, and direct technical consultation to ensure feature teams successfully leverage platform capabilities
Decompose monolithic functionality into reusable platform primitives that can be composed by feature teams, extracting common patterns (data access, caching, event publishing, authorization checks) into centralized services that eliminate code duplication
Qualification
Required
7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience
3+ years of hands-on experience with authentication systems, identity management, and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT) with working knowledge of AWS Cognito
2+ years of experience leading technical teams
Demonstrate senior-level expertise in C# .NET, APIs, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and/or PostgreSQL
Deep understanding of authentication/authorization patterns, session management, token lifecycle, and credential security best practices
Working knowledge of security frameworks and compliance standards (OWASP Top 10, SOC 2, encryption at rest/in transit)
Proven history of designing and developing scalable, testable applications using service-oriented architecture, with 5+ years owning mission-critical production services at scale (50+ pods, 99.9%+ uptime, 10K+ RPS) in containerized environments
Ability to balance business and technical objectives when making security and architectural decisions
Experience mentoring and developing other engineers
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with product, engineering, security teams, and customers; internal and external
Working knowledge of API gateway patterns, middleware development, and request/response transformation
Leverage AI tooling as a key accelerant across all aspects of the role, continuously identifying opportunities to integrate AI into workflows, improve team productivity, and push the boundaries of what your team can deliver
Preferred
Experience with SaaS multi-tenancy patterns and tenant isolation strategies
Hands-on experience with .NET 8+, microservice architecture, and message queues (Kafka, SQS)
Experience with specific AWS services (SNS, Route53, EKS, ECS)
Experience with Angular, TypeScript, or modern front-end frameworks for full-stack authentication flows
Experience with security scanning tools, penetration testing, and vulnerability management
Familiarity with zero-trust architecture principles and implementation
Background in identity federation, directory services (Active Directory, LDAP), or enterprise SSO solutions
Experience designing and operating multi-tenant systems with strong tenant isolation, data boundary enforcement, and context-aware request handling
Benefits
Competitive salary + bonus + annual merit increases
Health, vision, and dental insurance (eligible on day 1)
401K with matching up to 4% (eligible after 90 days)
9 company holidays + 15 FTO days in first year
Reimbursement for relevant technical certifications
Professional growth opportunities
Pluralsight subscription
Company
DriveCentric
DriveCentric is an internet marketing company that primarily focuses on improving the aspects of CRM in automotive dealerships.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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Co-Founder
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