Lead Full Stack Engineer

Title: Lead Full Stack Engineer

Employment Type: 6M Contract-to-Hire

Location: Naperville, IL (Hybrid - 3x per week)

Salary: 75-80/hr

Summary

We are seeking a Lead Fullstack Engineer to support a new pricing and subscription initiative focused on improving how customers purchase and price products based on business size, unit volume, and service levels. This role will play a key part in standing up the technical architecture and roadmap for a modern pricing platform, with a strong emphasis on integrating a third-party subscription management solution into existing backend enterprise systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in C#/.NET, deep experience with Azure, and comfort working across both internal engineering teams and external platform partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and stand up the architecture and architectural roadmap for a new enterprise pricing platform
• Partner closely with a third-party digital subscription management platform to integrate pricing capabilities into internal backend systems
• Lead backend integration efforts to support dynamic, non-standardized pricing based on customer type, product usage, and business scale
• Simplify legacy pricing workflows that currently rely on complex Excel-based pricing breakdowns
• Improve overall user experience for internal users and customers by enabling clearer, more consistent pricing models
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore development teams to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions
• Leverage Azure services to build secure, high-performing backend systems
• Ensure the platform meets enterprise standards for reliability, scalability, and maintainability

Technical Environment

• Backend: C#, .NET
• Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure (strong hands-on experience required)
• Subscription & Pricing Platform: Zuora (or comparable subscription/billing platforms)
• Integration-heavy environment with enterprise backend systems

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of professional software engineering or solutions architecture experience
• Strong expertise with C# and .NET in enterprise environments
• Extensive experience building and integrating systems on Microsoft Azure
• Experience designing and implementing backend system integrations
• Proven ability to define and execute architectural roadmaps
• Comfortable working with third-party SaaS platforms to extend internal capabilities
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner with cross-functional and external teams
• Proficiency programming in Node.JS or Angular.JS
• Experience with Cloud Native & RESTful API development
• Experience with Database management (SQL, NoSQL, AWS RDS, DynamoDB)
• Experience with developing Microservices
• Experience with Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with subscription management, billing, or pricing platforms (e.g., Zuora)
• Experience supporting pricing models that vary by customer size, usage, or service tier
• Background working in hybrid onshore/offshore delivery models
• Experience modernizing legacy or Excel-driven business processes

What Success Looks Like

• A scalable pricing architecture that integrates seamlessly with enterprise backend systems
• Reduced reliance on manual or Excel-based pricing workflows
• Improved pricing transparency and usability for internal users and customers
• A clear, executable technical roadmap aligned with long-term business goals