Responsibilities
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader, actively contributing to system design, architecture, code reviews, and implementation
- Bring deep expertise in C#, .NET Framework, and .NET Core, applying best practices directly to production systems
- Drive an AI-forward engineering culture, bringing demonstrated experience with AI tools such as Codex or Claude Code to improve developer efficiency and throughput
- Apply SOLID principles, object-oriented design, and established design patterns to build maintainable, scalable software
- Lead development of RESTful APIs and backend services
- Guide teams in effective use of asynchronous programming patterns (async/await) and distributed processing
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex, Copilot) to improve personal effectiveness and evangelize responsible usage across teams
- Partner with senior engineers and architects to evolve systems while maintaining stability and operational excellence
- Own the health, reliability, and operational readiness of production systems
- Lead and personally contribute to production incident resolution, including hands-on debugging
- Drive structured incident response, root cause analysis, and preventative actions
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using DataDog
- Ensure teams are prepared for on-call rotations and production support responsibilities
- Ensure work is well-scoped, well-designed, and delivered predictably
- Hold teams accountable for quality, test coverage, and long-term maintainability
- Ensure unit testing practices using MSTest and Moq are consistently followed
- Drive a shift-left mindset, encouraging quality, security, and operational thinking early in development
- Promote continuous improvement through innovation, experimentation, and adoption of new technologies (including AI)
- Define and enforce coding standards and software development best practices
- Ensure compliance with relevant security and regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOX, PCI DSS)
- Stay current on evolving software, security, and data protection trends
- Champion secure coding practices and operational excellence
- Work effectively with engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders
- Navigate competing priorities and align teams toward clear technical outcomes
- Influence through credibility, clarity, and technical leadership
- Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and production impacts clearly to leadership
- Recruit, hire, and retain high-performing engineers
- Personally assess technical depth, problem solving, and ownership during interviews
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning
- Mentor engineers at all levels with strong emphasis on technical growth and system thinking
- Develop senior engineers into future technical leaders
Benefits
- Trupanion employees may be eligible for monthly bonuses
- We want all employees to be invested in Trupanion’s success, so we grant Restricted Stock Units to all new team members
- Our new hire grants vest over 4 years
