Lead Full Stack Engineer (.NET)

About HTX Labs

Since 2017, HTX Labs has been on a mission to accelerate the future of learning, employing immersive software training solutions and content development services for the Department of Defense to elevate the level of proficiency and preparedness of today's warfighter.

HTX Labs developed the EMPACT® Immersive Learning Platform to address a growing need to modernize training, improve safety, maximize operational efficiency, and build resilience and readiness across the defense industry.

HTX Labs is dedicated to driving learning innovation, providing the necessary digital infrastructure to empower users to easily create, deploy, measure, and sustain mission-specific, immersive training programs anytime, anywhere, on any device, with anyone, at scale.

Description

At HTX Labs, we are on a mission to accelerate the future of learning, delivering the premier immersive learning platform and experiential training content for the Department of Defense to build resilience and readiness of today’s warfighter.

We are looking for a versatile Lead Full Stack Engineer (.NET) with a passion for building scalable and reliable applications that help us evolve our immersive learning platform, EMPACT®, improve our customer experience, and deliver the best training experience to meet our customers’ needs.

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision and execution of our projects. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing directly to the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable applications. This position requires a blend of hands-on coding expertise, technical leadership, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of 3D artists, content producers, PMO, server engineers, Unreal Engine engineers, QA, Customer Success, and leadership, working in a fully-remote, fast-paced, agile environment.

Who you are:

• A systemic thinker
• Proficient in both front and back-end coding
• Take ownership of application efficiency and reliability
• Aim to minimize of production and engineering disruption
• Enjoy defining, setting, and utilizing new and better ways to design and development of software applications
• Understand how best to grow individuals in your team to see their full potential
• Advocate and stand up for your team to ensure they get what they need to do their best work
• Think of the long-term ramifications of people’s decisions to best steer the product in the path of most benefit and maintainability

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will be to build tools and automation to support the CI/CD and game build processes both on premises and on cloud.

• Develop highly reliable, highly scalable server-side features utilizing Kubernetes, SQL Server, Kestrel, .NET Core, and C#
• Develop web services supporting VR clients, browsers, and mobile clients
• Tune real-time server systems for reliability and performance
• Design and tune high performance transactional RDBMS as well as NoSQL
• Understand various Level 4-7 network protocols to provide the best solution for connecting to various clients
• Know when to use various inter-service patterns such as buses, message queues, and RPC
• Work with the client platform team to integrate networking technology into Unreal Engine and other client technologies
• Implement system agnostic services to support Windows or Linux servers
• Develop web apps providing administration and analytics views
• Utilize external SOAP and RESTful APIs to connect the platform to partner platforms
• Provide live ops support for services
• Work with production to help choose work for the team and individuals that maximizes their growth potential
• Architect and design software solutions with the Director of Technology to aid in long-term planning
• Assist product leadership with roadmap planning and estimations
• Provide 1-on-1s with your team members to help discover issues, escalate problems to the appropriate people, and provide support to the individual
• Conduct regular perf