Application Development Team Lead

Title: Application Development Team LeadDuration: FTE/Perm

Location: Remote - Must be local to NYC, Chicago, Dallas, or Washington, DC to go onsite the first day and as-needed!Salary: 200-250kA direct client is looking for a Team Lead of Application Development to serve as both technical lead and lead architect/developer on high-visibility custom application projects.

This is an ideal role for a forward-thinking developer who has already modernized how they build software by weaving AI-assisted coding tools and intelligent development environments into daily work — think Databricks Assistant, Snowflake Copilot, Vibe Coding, Cursor, Anthropic Code, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and Sourcegraph Cody — to boost productivity, quality, and collaboration across both front-end and back-end initiatives.What you'll do:Own a portfolio of work and guide the team on technology direction, including architectural design, AI-assisted code development, and code reviewsApply AI development tools and intelligent assistants to speed up development, refactoring, and testingChampion the adoption of AI-powered workflows to streamline delivery and strengthen code reliability and maintainabilitySupport day-to-day team operations — task assignment, progress tracking, and issue resolutionKeep the team working cohesively and efficiently, in line with firm development standardsGuide projects through all phases of the software development life cycleModel and promote secure, ethical, and responsible use of AI tools across the engineering processWhat you'll bring:3+ years leading development teams5+ years programming web applications and services5+ years across the full development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, QA, release, and maintenanceProven track record integrating AI coding assistants into real, professional development workflowsMobile web development experience using jQuery Mobile and responsive designA strong sense of ownership over code quality and adherence to best practicesExperience with Agile methodologies and Team Foundation Server (Azure DevOps) is a strong plusSelf-motivated, resourceful, and independent, with genuine enthusiasm for learning new technology — especially in AI and automationHands-on experience with the .NET Framework (C#, ASP.NET, WebAPI), MVC, JSON, REST APIs, HTML, CSS/CSS3, jQuery, AJAX, and XML/XSL/XSDProven experience with modern front-end development using Angular 16+Experience deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications with KubernetesHands-on experience with Entity Data Model, Dapper, and LINQExperience building full-text search engines (Apache Solr or Elastic Search)Advanced SQL Server 2019+ experience, including complex stored procedures, triggers, views, data modeling, and performance tuningSharePoint Online experience is a plusStrong scripting ability in VBScript, PowerShell, or PythonAbility to responsibly integrate AI-generated components into enterprise applications, both new and existingFamiliarity with AI-driven UI/UX tools such as UXPilot or Figma is a bonusDemonstrated hands-on proficiency with AI-assisted development tools, including but not limited to Databricks Assistant, Snowflake Copilot and Cortex AI, Vibe Coding, Cursor, Anthropic Code, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Sourcegraph Cody, ChatGPT (OpenAI Developer Tools), and Mutable AI