Aristotle · 12 hours ago
Senior .NET Team Lead - Trading & Financial Systems
Aristotle is a well-established company with over 40 years of experience, now seeking a Senior .NET Engineer Team Lead for their PredictIt platform. This role involves leading a backend engineering team, focusing on the development and architecture of core systems and services, while ensuring high code quality and performance in a regulated environment.
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Responsibilities
Lead a backend engineering pod focused on mission-critical services (order lifecycle, market data, financial workflows, and platform APIs)
Own technical execution for your area: design, build, ship, and operate high-availability services in production
Drive service architecture and patterns (APIs, messaging, caching, data models, failure handling) with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
Perform high-signal code reviews that improve maintainability, correctness, and long-term system integrity
Provide leadership for engineers on the team: regular 1:1s, coaching, performance feedback, and support for growth and accountability
Lead incident prevention and response: observability, profiling, capacity planning, and performance tuning
Manage team Scrum: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, delivery tracking, and removing blockers in coordination with Product
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field
6+ years of professional experience building enterprise-grade applications in the .NET ecosystem
Strong proficiency with C#, ASP.NET (MVC/Web API), OOP, and layered/service-oriented architectures
Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery for backend systems (as a team lead, tech lead, or senior engineer owning a domain)
Proven ability to build performant, reliable services under real-world load (high-transaction systems strongly preferred)
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (idempotency, retries, consistency, queues/streams, caching, and graceful degradation)
Experience using code reviews as a leadership function to raise quality and level up engineers
Familiarity with CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and cloud architecture (Azure preferred)
Strong communication skills—able to align teams, write clearly, and make pragmatic tradeoffs
Preferred
Experience with financial systems (order lifecycle, risk controls, matching concepts) and/or FIX familiarity
Experience designing event-driven architectures with Kafka (or similar) for high-volume pipelines
Background in regulated or security-sensitive environments with strong audit/compliance needs
Production operations experience (on-call, incident response, observability, SLOs)
Benefits
Health coverage
Paid holidays
401(k)
PTO
Hybrid/remote flexibility
Competitive compensation
Medical benefits
Paid vacation
401k plan
Stock options
Company
Aristotle
Aristotle is a political data-management software company that specializes in data-mining voter data for political campaigns.
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$0.42M2017-01-19Seed· $0.42M
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