Technical Team Lead (.NET) (Amman)

Cura Healthcare is a leading Saudi tele-health startup that provides digital health and telemedicine software and services. The company has developed state-of-the-art technologies empowering health communications, changing the way patients and doctors interact, diagnose, prescribe, give second opinions, manage chronic diseases, and provide primary health care and well-being therapy sessions. We have helped more than half a million patients get medical advice and diagnosis and our platform has powered more than 2.5 million tele-medicine consultations to-date across our B2C, B2B and B2B2C products and offerings. Cura is VC backed by Saudi Aramco, Elm and Enmaa VCs and has recently closed their third investment round ($4 million Series-A).  

About The Role:

We are hiring Technical Team Lead (.NET) to work full-time from Amman's Engineering Office. You will be leading senior software engineers and own a bi-weekly release cycle in order to ship intuitive software products and solutions that impact people's lives and enhance their physical and mental well-being and overall health.

Your profile is that of an originally very strong software engineer with excellent knowledge in software architecture, design patterns, refactoring, major performance improvements, code-reviews and with demonstrated experience leading/managing teams of senior engineers and proven working experience owning critical systems in production environments.

What you will do :

• Work closely with the Engineering Manager and CTO on the product's software design, architecture, and implementation strategies.
• Own and manage a bi-weekly release cycle and deployment in production.
• Conduct daily Pull Requests Code Reviews.
• Participate in defining the product roadmap and adjusting priorities as per the business changes.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Fellow Engineers on new features and systems.
• Set and implement an incremental strategy to minimize accumulated technical debt.
• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
• Set clear team goals and Oversee day-to-day team progress.
• Delegate tasks and set deadlines.
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
• Motivate team members, mentor junior members and support in recruiting new talents.
• Listen to team members’ feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts.
• Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments.

What we are looking for:

• Minimum of 9 years of professional experience designing, developing, and scaling web and REST API solutions written with C#, ASP.NET MVC.
• Minimum of 2 years in a leadership/management role capacity leading senior and junior software engineers.
• Proven work experience as a software team leader managing at least 3-6 software developers.
• Minimum of 2 years owning and deploying critical backend systems in production environments.
• Not reluctant to roll up your sleeves and write code.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in Software Architecture, Design Patterns, OOD, OOP, REST APIs, C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, SQL.
• Very strong understanding of HTTP protocol, client/server architecture, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Very strong in designing and maintaining REST APIs that are used by a diverse set of front-end clients and serving millions of requests (either using ASP.NET Web APIs or any other framework).
• Systems thinker who understands how each feature fits into the overall design and makes sure new changes aren’t breaking old working software.
• Demonstrated experience in iterative methodologies (Agile/Scrum) leading Scrum meetings, developing Sprints, Product Backlogs, Burn Down Charts, Developing User Stories.
• Excellent code review and refactoring skills.
• Advanced Knowledge in source control system (Git).
• Experience working with Jira, BitBucket and Confluence.
• Experience automating software delivery using Continuous Integration practices (CI/CD).
• Superb planning, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Decision-making skills.
• Decisive and highly disciplined yet lovely and enjoyable to work with.

Plus Points:

• Worked with AWS cloud (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk)
• Experience with ‘ServiceStack' REST API open source framework.
• Experience with ReactJS or any front-end framework is a plus.
• Knowledge in iOS and/or Android mobile eco-systems (Xamarin or native).
• Basic Objective-C or Swift or Java knowledge.