Lead Developer

We're Hiring: Lead Developer!

We are currently on the lookout for a Lead Developer to join our team at Cloudstaff, the #1 workplace everywhere!

Role: Lead Developer

Work Arrangement: Work from Office

Location: Philippines - Angeles (Pampanga)

Schedule: Morning Shift

Job Description:

WFO: This is a Work From Office role based in Angeles City.

We're looking for a skilled Lead Developer to head our software team. You’ll guide the development of quality software projects and help our team grow professionally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of 4 software developers, providing technical guidance, coaching, structured feedback, and career development support
• Own delivery commitments for the development team, ensuring sprint goals are met through task delegation, proactive problem-solving, and close collaboration with Product Owners
• Architect, design, and develop features and services for our travel platform by providing technical expertise on a full-stack product development team in a .NET / PHP and Azure / AWS environment
• Drive adoption of modern .NET practices (.NET Core/.NET 6+, Entity Framework Core, async programming, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles) across the team
• Revitalize services and architectures that have outlasted their original implementations through refactoring, migration, and cloud-enabled distributed design
• Define and enforce coding standards, testing practices, and architectural guidelines to ensure maintainability and scalability
• Write clean, testable, peer-reviewed, and optimized high-performance code while balancing leadership responsibilities with hands-on development
• Ensure high-quality deliverables by establishing and maintaining strong code review and testing practices (unit, integration, and automated testing)
• Collaborate with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines and streamline deployments in Azure/AWS environments
• Safeguard the privacy, security, and trust of our members’ sensitive data throughout implementations, in partnership with Risk and Security teams
• Support agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and drive continuous improvement in team delivery practices

Qualification and requirements:

• 5+ years of full-stack software development experience, with strong hands-on work using C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, Node.js, Angular, and MSSQL
• 2+ years of experience in a team lead, tech lead, or similar leadership role in a software engineering environment
• Strong expertise in front-end and back-end development, API integrations, and database design
• Practical experience with Entity Framework Core, asynchronous programming, dependency injection, and middleware pipelines
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and migrating to cloud-ready, distributed architectures
• Proficiency with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code concepts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the travel, booking, or e-commerce industries
• Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems design
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and security-first development
• Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation)
• Understanding of data streaming and messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus)

Non-negotiable skills & requirements:

• Strong full-stack development background (C#, .NET, Node.js)
• Proven track record of leading software projects end-to-end (from design through delivery)
• Demonstrated ability to mentor developers, set technical direction, and ensure delivery in an agile environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical detail into business context