Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IRIS Software Group is a software company providing solutions that support businesses, schools, and accountancy firms. The Engineering Lead will provide hands-on technical direction, agile delivery ownership, and people management for a team developing document capture, storage, workflow, and retrieval capabilities within the accountancy product suite.
Responsibilities
- Scope, sequence and deliver against quarterly OKRs, with commitments the team can actually meet and few surprises along the way
- Own stakeholder communication on progress, risk and dependencies across Product, Compliance and leadership
- Raise release cadence and predictability - our direction of travel is a production deployment every sprint, moving towards on demand
- Balance workload and staffing across the team to keep delivery sustainable
- Own architecture and technical decisions for document ingestion, storage, retrieval and integration at scale
- Set and enforce security standards for sensitive client and financial data: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, retention and audit trail
- Drive engineering quality - automated testing, code review standards, CI/CD and observability - and hold the line on it under delivery pressure
- Manage technical debt deliberately: a prioritised, funded plan rather than a backlog nobody reads
- Adopt AI tooling into the team’s engineering workflow responsibly, and measure whether it is genuinely helping
- Line manage engineers: 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, and the difficult conversations when they are needed
- Grow senior engineers into technical leaders and delegate real accountability to them
- Own team health and engagement - act on it rather than simply reporting it
Skills
- • Depth in .NET and C# with [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) Core Web APIs and distributed systems, plus working fluency in a modern UI framework (React, Angular, Vue or Blazor)
- • Production cloud experience with containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines you have personally built or owned - Azure preferred, as our platform runs entirely on Azure, though strong AWS experience transfers well
- • Sound judgement across relational and non-relational data stores, and the reasoning to choose between them
- • Application security in practice: vulnerability management, threat modelling and dependency hygiene
- • Observability that is actually used, and production support experience under real incident pressure - Datadog preferred, Application Insights also welcome
- • Evidence of shipping through a team: 6+ years in software engineering, plus either formal line management or sustained technical leadership of a delivery team
- • Track record delivering complex projects in an Agile environment, balancing technical excellence against delivery timelines
- • Experience modernising established codebases without stopping delivery
- • Effective working across distributed and offshore teams in different timezones
- • Leads several workstreams at pace without letting security or data-integrity discipline slip
- • Communicates and negotiates credibly across engineering, Product and Compliance, and upwards to leadership
- • Decides with incomplete information, and revisits decisions when the evidence changes
- • Balances technical excellence against delivery reality without defaulting to either
- • Self-starter who owns outcomes end to end and builds team culture deliberately
- • Document, content or records management systems, including OCR and search or indexing pipelines
- • Regulated or audit-heavy domains - finance, legal, govtech - with SOC 2 or equivalent
- • Platform or shared-services engineering
- • Practical AI integration work, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent tooling
- • Advanced Azure certification (or AWS equivalent)
Benefits
- Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
- A culture that celebrates diversity and empowers every individual.
- Remote work arrangement.
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