Sr. Full Stack Developer Lead

The Company 

Stenograph LLC is a world leader in the court reporting industry and has been in business for 85 years. Stenograph provides a full suite of products and software for dictation and transcription applications. The company offers shorthand writing machines and computer-aided transcription software for the information technology needs of the court reporting and captioning communities. The company also provides training materials and professional development courses for students and court reporting professionals. The company markets its products through its sales force and distributors in the United States and internationally. Stenograph is solely owned by The Heico Companies, LLC, a privately held, $2B revenue company that specializes in acquiring distressed assets, improving their performance, and holding them for the long term. 

Heico has a history of success. Since its founding over 40 years ago The Heico Companies has grown from a single business to over 78 separate companies through a strategic acquisition policy, and by reinvesting its earnings into internal growth and new prospects. Historically talented at restoring distressed companies, Heico strategically targets acquisitions that will complement its ever-growing portfolio of companies in manufacturing, construction, and industrial services.  These four core operations are organized into groups: Applied Solutions Group, Construction Solutions Group, Industrial Technologies Group, and Metal Processing Group. Once acquired, new Heico companies are assigned to a group and run on a stand-alone basis, allowing for great independence as well as the opportunity to share knowledge about markets, production processes, and management practices across other Heico groups and companies. Heico continues to seek out new opportunities and maintain its standard of success. The Heico Companies has remained a privately held company since its creation and maintains a majority ownership in each of its operations, which generates more than $3.3 billion dollars in revenues. Many of our businesses are certified Woman-owned Business Enterprises (WBE).

More information about the overall organization can be found at www.heicocompanies.com. 

Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Developer Lead with substantial expertise in both front-end and back-end application development using .NET Core, C#, web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript (React, Next.js). This role involves designing and developing both user-facing and server-side components, as well as configuring related web platforms and database management systems, ensuring seamless integration and comprehensive coverage. 

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in architecture, design, and programming, with the ability to manage the full software development lifecycle from start to finish. This position requires a strong sense of responsibility and accountability to lead development initiatives within a product-centric team, along with excellent problem-solving and team management skills. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Lead the software development and engineering team in the creation of new software, web applications, and informatics solutions. 

• Implement best practices for developing and coding enterprise-class solutions, fostering a high-performing development organization by creating and maintaining a collaborative work environment that promotes engagement, efficiency, and performance. 

• Develop and implement build processes and tools, establishing a continuous integration pipeline. 

• Lead architecture design efforts to develop premier development frameworks, including business rules engines, data object persistence, authentication & authorization, security, and relevant interfacing and support for various projects. 

• Prepare initial high-level designs, functional requirements, and effort estimates for assigned projects. 

• Actively participate in and facilitate design and architecture peer review sessions. 

• Support and lead agile planning and scoping activities alongside the assigned Product Coordinator. 

• Conduct technical deep dives on existing applications to support and create an asset inventory of current components, ensuring reuse of existing code and managing development iteration plans. 

• Facilitate continuous quality improvement monitoring. 

• Coordinate all software design, planning, development, and maintenance deliverables with minimal supervision. 

• Hire, train, and manage a highly skilled technical team of software engineers. 

• Collaborate with other developers to architect new SaaS applications based on new concepts or existing legacy applications. 

Experience and Skills 

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in developing and managing full-stack applications, with expertise in .NET, C#, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript (React, Next.js). 

• Solid hands-on experience with front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 

• Proficiency with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or similar. 

• Experience in real-time data processing, performance tuning, and optimization. 

• Exceptional problem-solving and multitasking skills, with a logical and pragmatic approach. 

• Strong comprehension of cloud service models (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS). 

• Thorough understanding of DevOps and CI/CD concepts, with experience using Azure DevOps or similar agile tracking tools. 

• Certification or expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure is highly preferred. 

Educational Qualification 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related software field (Master's preferred) or demonstrated equivalent relevant experience. 

Behavioral Skills 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively. 

• Strong sense of responsibility and accountability for delivering high-quality solutions. 

• Ability to assess problems and provide timely resolutions. 

• Proven experience in team leadership, with the capacity to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders. 

• Ability to set goals, manage team performance, and organize people and activities to achieve objectives. 

• Strong collaboration skills, with the capability to work cross-functionally in a product-centric environment. 

Additional Information 

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile environment. 
• Understanding of security best practices in software development. 
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools.
• Expertise in performance monitoring and tuning of web applications. 
• This position will be considered for remote or in house at our Downers Grove, IL. location with a hybrid work schedule. In office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and work from home Monday and Friday. 

EOE M/F/D/V