Lead Developer

Ziphire.hr
Chicago, IL

Our client empowers insurance organizations to quickly capitalize on new opportunities by delivering the world’s most configurable, cloud-native, easy-to-use, and intuitively analytical insurance software. Just as importantly, we empower our people—providing the tools, support, and opportunities they need to grow and succeed.

We don’t just make bold promises—we deliver results. As the largest cloud-based software provider for the Property & Casualty market, our client is trusted by 22 of the top 25 P&C carriers and 7 of the top 10 wholesale brokers in the MGA space. Behind that trust is a team that delivers exceptional value and deep industry expertise.

While our technology sets us apart, it’s our people who truly make the difference. At our client, you’ll collaborate with some of the most creative and knowledgeable minds in insurance tech—in a culture that fosters innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning. Our award-winning onboarding experience welcomes and supports you from the moment you accept our offer.

Ready to grow your career with an industry leader? Apply today—they are excited to welcome you.

Our client's Next Lead Developer will be a hands-on technical leader for their flagship product leading modernization across the company, owning complex work end-to-end—from estimation and solution design through implementation, testing, and production support—while raising quality via standards, peer review, and technical oversight. This person thrives in the details, can independently design and prototype solutions that reduce codebase complexity and manual validation, and can modernize a mixed stack (existing .NET services plus newer React portals and emerging technologies) without sacrificing reliability. IMS is at an inflection point as we operationalize agentic development workflows and internal automation to accelerate delivery, so the ideal fit is a pragmatic builder who can architect the “how,” dive into the code to execute, and lead effectively across a distributed India + North America team while aligning with US working hours.

What Our Lead Dev Will Do

SDLC / Planning

  • Participate in SDLC estimation and development processes for complex assignments
  • Responsible for the estimating and planning of projects and solutions
  • Create impact assessment documentation for proposed changes

Design

  • Determine and define technical solutions for assigned work
  • Review other developers’ design solutions
  • Apply common design patterns appropriately
  • Create designs that reduce or eliminate maintenance and ongoing manual testing/validation
  • Reduce complexity in the codebase through thoughtful architecture and refactoring
  • Create design proposals and provide prototyping support for new problem spaces, highly complex solutions, and new/emerging technologies

Development

  • Develop solutions for issues and enhancements
  • Develop technical documentation for targeted audiences, including internal and external customers
  • Help set coding standards and follow the client standards for coding and documentation
  • Provide peer review of designs, code, and delivery artifacts
  • Provide technical leadership and oversight to team members, including third-party partners
  • Provide in-depth technical troubleshooting, defect investigation, and remediation

Testing

  • Write code and unit tests according to client standards, following an approved technical solution, for enhancements and bug fixes
  • Develop unit tests for code changes and assigned use cases

Documentation / Communication

  • Comment code clearly and consistently
  • Prepare and present technical solutions (e.g., via PowerPoint) to relevant audiences
  • Prepare and present to stakeholders, including customers

Leadership

  • Provide leadership, coaching, mentorship, and technical guidance to team members
  • Provide performance feedback on team members
  • Stay up to date on industry and job-related trends and best practices (publications, articles, blogs, etc.)

Must-have

  • Experience: 8+ years building and shipping production services/features end-to-end (design delivery support).
  • Hands-on leadership: Leads through the codebase—estimation, solution design, implementation, reviews, and troubleshooting for complex work.
  • Core stack: Strong C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core, Web API) + SQL Server; solid Git/PR workflow discipline.
  • Quality-through-code: Regularly ships with unit/integration/contract tests; expects the same from others; comfortable defining/enforcing quality gates.
  • Delivery automation: Has personally automated multiple parts of a real codebase (CI/CD, tests, code quality, deploy scripts, DB migrations, scaffolding/code-gen).
  • Collaboration: Clear communicator who partners well with Product/QA/Ops and can drive technical decisions to closure.
  • Operating model: Can work effectively across a distributed India + North America team while aligning with US working hours.

Preferred

  • Modernization: Experience modernizing a mature system while introducing newer tech (e.g., React portals, new services) without destabilizing production.
  • Cloud: Hands-on cloud experience in Azure (preferred) or AWS/GCP (monitoring/alerting, pipelines, basic IaC concepts).
  • API/integrations: Strong API design and documentation; integration experience in production.
  • AI / agentic workflows: Practical experience using AI/agentic dev tooling to accelerate delivery  safely  (ground-truthing outputs, repeatable workflows, privacy/IP hygiene).

Nice to have

  • AI in product/platform: Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into products or internal platforms (evaluation, monitoring, guardrails).
  • Front-end / adjacent languages: React depth; Node.js and/or Python for tooling/automation/integrations.
  • SOAP familiarity
  • Insurance domain exposure: policy/billing/claims/underwriting.

Work Where You Thrive
Find the work environment that supports your best—whether that’s remote, in-office, or hybrid—depending on your role and location. Our Flex First Workforce approach offers many fully remote opportunities, while some teams follow hybrid or in-office schedules to stay connected and collaborative.

Take Time When You Need It
We trust our team to manage their time with our Open PTO Policy, empowering you to recharge when it matters most.

Benefits That Start on Day One
Enjoy comprehensive health coverage and employer-matched retirement savings right from your first day—because we know how important these are to you.

Living Our Values Every Day
Our core values are more than words on a wall—they guide how we hire, grow, and retain the very best talent.

Award-Winning Onboarding
From your first day to your first anniversary, our onboarding program is designed to set you up for success and help you make an immediate impact.

Grow Your Career from Within
We believe in promoting from within. In fact, over 20% of our open roles are filled by internal candidates.

Mentorship That Matters
Our mentorship program connects you with experienced leaders who are committed to helping you grow both personally and professionally.

Stay Connected with Coffee for Two
Our unique internal networking program helps you build meaningful connections across teams and departments—one virtual coffee chat at a time.

Keep Learning, Always
Fuel your growth with full access to LinkedIn Learning and Kaplan—because continuous development is key to success.

Invest in Your Future—And Your Family’s
Through our partnership with the University of Arizona Global Campus, you and your family can access discounted tuition and pursue educational goals affordably.

Earn When You Refer
Love where you work? Invite others to join us! Our Employee Referral Bonus program rewards you for bringing great people on board.

Posted 2026-02-22

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