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Lead Application Engineer

Piper Companies
Piper Companies Salary
Frederick, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2026
Piper Companies is looking for a Lead Application Engineer to join a thriving insurance company. This is a hybrid position and requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days a week.

Essential Duties of the Lead Application Engineer:

  • Drive multiple projects through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success
  • Design and develop web-based applications and micro-services using both front-end and back-end technologies (full stack development), including but not limited to technical design, coding, and unit testing to generate high quality deliverables to achieve product release objectives
  • Maintain knowledge and understanding of corporate security procedures and policies for implementation, auditing, and documentation purposes as part of the software implementation process
  • Research new technologies and present proposals to management on technologies that would facilitate processing of business or reduce costs to the organization to architects and management

Qualifications of the Lead Application Engineer:

  • Bachelor's degree preferred but not required
  • 10 years of software design and development experience with backend services
  • 10 years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language. C# preferred
  • 3 years designing distributed systems
  • Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks
  • Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable

Compensation for the Lead Application Engineer:

  • $165,000 - $185,000 (based on experience)
  • Comprehensive benefit package; Cigna Medical, Cigna Dental, Vision, 401k w/ ADP, PTO, paid holidays, sick Leave as required by law

This job opens for applications on 4/20/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

  • NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, Entity Framework, LINQ, Visual Studio, NuGet, Blazor, Razor Pages, MVC, Web API, SignalR, XAML, WPF, WinForms, RESTful Services, Microservices, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, xUnit, NUnit, Moq, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, DevOps, Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure Monitor, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, ARM Templates, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, JIRA, Confluence, Team Leadership, Mentoring, Code Reviews, Project Management, Stakeholder Communication, Cross-functional Teams, Technical Documentation, Architecture Design, Solution Design, Performance Optimization, Security Best Practices, OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, Cloud-native Development, Serverless Architecture, Load Balancing, Scalability, High Availability, Monitoring and Logging, Application Insights, Telemetry, Release Management, Version Control, Agile Coaching, Backlog Grooming, Feature Prioritization, Risk Management, Change Management, Continuous Improvement, Collaboration Tools, Remote Team Management, Time Zone Coordination, Conflict Resolution, Team Building, Hiring and Onboarding, Technical Interviews, Career Development, Performance Reviews

Salary : $165,000 - $185,000

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