Senior Engineering Lead

Overview

Your Part-Time Controller, LLC (YPTC) is a nationally recognized leader in providing outsourced financial management services to nonprofit organizations. We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Engineering Lead to join our nimble team.  If you thrive in a dynamic environment, and are passionate about application development, we would love to meet you. 

 

We are a growing company dedicated to delivering innovative technology products and exceptional internal applications. Our culture is friendly, open, and collaborative, and we're committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute and excel.

 

What You'll Do: This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who enjoys building, mentoring, and ensuring business systems remain production ready.  You will work closely with a small, capable team, balancing development, technical leadership, and operational responsibility.

 

The specific responsibilities outlined below may evolve over time and are at the discretion of the Director of Applications.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

 

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Lead development across the SDLC, at all levels of the stack, and personally implement at a high level of competence to support the team as needed.
• Propose and drive improvements to architecture, code quality, and long‑term maintainability.
• Translate requirements into well‑designed, maintainable implementations.
• Continuously learn and apply understanding of YPTC business processes, accounting practices, and reporting needs.

Team Enablement

• Mentor developers through code reviews, design feedback, and offer day‑to‑day technical guidance.
• Monitor work in progress, unblock issues, and clarify ambiguous requirements.
• Set clear expectations around quality, testing, and delivery.

Execution & Operations

• Manage Jira boards, sprints, releases, and issue lifecycle.
• Write clear Jira issues covering requirements, architecture, and implementation guidance.
• Oversee Git workflows, including branching, merging, and release preparation.
• Review, test, and deploy changes across dev, QA, and production environments.
• Coordinate technology changes with other departments such as data warehouse, system integrations and data consumers.
• Infrastructure & Reliability
• Oversee Windows and Linux VMs, scheduled tasks, scripts, databases, and backups.
• Serve as point person for application support, triage, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Read logs, diagnose issues, and ensure timely resolution.

Qualifications

Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science or related field
• Proven experience as a Lead Developer, and a Technical or Product Lead, in a small development team with 10+ years development experience preferred.
• Strong proficiency in ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, RESTful APIs.
• Strong proficiency with relational databases: mySQL, SQL Server, or similar.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and DevOps practices, experience with cloud services (GCP, AWS, etc.), CI/CD.
• Strong systems administration and configuration knowledge in both Windows and Linux environments.

Skills/Competencies:

• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
• Analytical mindset with a passion for process improvement and innovation
• Strong business acumen and ability to drive strategic initiatives
• Embraces and facilitates change management effectively
• The ability to work independently and willingness to travel as necessary (for required, in-person staff meetings)
• A passion for helping others / embracing the “Outward Mindset”

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of / desire to learn and adopt advanced and rapidly changing technologies
• Experience with accounting and financial reporting
• Advanced experience with cloud services (GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Experience with Power BI or other BI tools
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric

YPTC Offers 

• A Best Place to Work! We are nationally recognized by both Inc. Magazine and Accounting Today  
• Work with a mission-driven purpose serving nonprofit organizations  
• A culture of support, enabling our staff to succeed  
• Growth! We are among the fastest growing accounting firms in the US, with unlimited oppor