About us Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth. Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.
As Technical Lead, you will be the senior .NET authority on a dedicated, cross-functional scrum team building a modern operational SaaS platform for K-12 education. The platform helps school divisions automate administrative workflows, manage information across their organization, and surface operational insight - which in practice means long-running, multi-step business processes, heavy integration between systems, and reporting that has to hold up under scrutiny from district administrators. Your team operates as an embedded extension of the client's product and engineering organization, not as an external group receiving isolated tickets. It owns assigned product services end-to-end: analysis, planning, implementation, quality assurance, documentation, and release readiness. The client sets product direction and owns architecture and engineering standards; your team is accountable for converting prioritized objectives into production-ready functionality without needing day-to-day coordination. That means you will be working inside an established codebase and an established set of standards, influencing them through implementation plans and evidence rather than unilateral redesign. This is a manager-level role. Alongside deep technical ownership, you will lead a team that includes embedded business analysis and QA capability - setting expectations, developing people, running sprint delivery, and representing the technical position directly to client stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities Leading a cross-functional scrum team - developers, business analysis, and QA - accountable end-to-end for assigned product services and feature areas
Writing and reviewing production C# and .NET Core code daily, and setting the standard for what good looks like in the codebase
Working within the client's established architecture and engineering standards, and influencing them through implementation plans and evidence rather than unilateral decisions
Producing technical analysis and implementation plans for significant changes, ahead of development starting
Designing Temporal workflow implementations - activity boundaries, retry and compensation strategy, idempotency, and workflow versioning
Implementing event-driven integration against defined pub/sub contracts, and flagging where contracts need to change
Implementing authorization against OpenFGA policies and Keycloak-backed OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect flows in a multi-tenant context
Working across PostgreSQL transactional models and ClickHouse reporting data within the client's data architecture
Diagnosing and resolving performance issues across the .NET stack - EF Core query plans, connection pooling, async/await misuse, memory and allocation behaviour
Owning the team's sprint delivery - refinement, planning, review,



and retrospective - without the client needing to act as delivery coordinator
Ensuring merge requests are small and reviewable, peer review is substantive, and CodeRabbit and pipeline feedback is addressed rather than waved through
Holding the team to a definition of done that includes requirements validation, automated test coverage, documentation, release readiness, and supportability
Owning post-release stabilization and defect resolution for recently delivered work
Escalating risks, dependencies, and missing business decisions early
Line-managing and mentoring engineers - goal setting, performance feedback, career development, and technical onboarding
Partnering with client product and engineering stakeholders on trade-offs, sequencing, and feasibility
What we are looking for Must-Have At least 8 years of skilled software engineering experience, with the majority in C# and .NET in production environments
Recognised depth in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core - you have owned non-trivial services end to end and can reason about the runtime, not just the framework surface
Expert-level Entity Framework Core, including migrations, query performance tuning, and knowing when to drop to raw SQL
Deep understanding of asynchronous and concurrent programming in .NET, including async/await pitfalls, cancellation, and thread-pool behaviour
At least 2 years leading engineering teams, with direct experience managing, mentoring, and developing engineers
Demonstrated ability to design and deliver within an existing architecture, including reading unfamiliar codebases quickly and respecting established patterns
Experience leading a dedicated or embedded delivery team inside a client's environment, processes, and repositories
Track record running sprint delivery without a separate delivery manager - refinement through retrospective
Production experience with a workflow orchestration engine (Temporal strongly preferred; Cadence, Camunda, or Step Functions considered)
Strong grasp of event-driven architecture and pub/sub messaging patterns
Practical experience implementing authentication and authorization for multi-tenant or role-sensitive applications using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
Strong relational data modelling skills in PostgreSQL, with an understanding of when analytical workloads justify a separate store
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release process, ideally in GitLab
Confidence communicating technical decisions directly to non-technical client stakeholders
Must be located in British Columbia, Canada
Technologies Core: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, worker services, asynchronous processing APIs: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, API versioning strategies Orchestration and Integration: Temporal workflows, integration services,



event-driven pub/sub
Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, relational data modelling, reporting and analytics data
Identity and Authorization: Keycloak, OpenFGA, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, role- and policy-based authorization
Testing: xUnit/NUnit, Moq, Testcontainers, unit, integration and API testing, Playwright end-to-end testing
Engineering and Collaboration: GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, CodeRabbit automated code review, Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Service Management, Confluence
Frontend context: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/UI, component-driven development
Nice-to-Have Working fluency in Next.js, React, and TypeScript - enough to review frontend code and unblock the team
Experience leading teams that include embedded BA and QA capability, rather than developers only
SaaS product delivery experience, particularly through a pilot-to-GA transition
Hands-on Temporal experience, including workflow versioning and testing strategies
Familiarity with fine-grained authorization models (Zanzibar-style / ReBAC) beyond OpenFGA specifically
Experience with ClickHouse schema design, materialized views, or high-cardinality analytics
Background in Domain-Driven Design and bounded context definition
Experience with CQRS and event sourcing patterns
Experience with Canadian public-sector or education data privacy requirements (PIPEDA, provincial FIPPA), including data residency considerations
Consulting or agency experience delivering to external clients
Experience running Jira Service Management as part of a support or run model
Who you are You are a pragmatic engineer who makes decisions with incomplete information, documents the reasoning, and revisits them when the evidence changes. You lead by raising the capability of the people around you, and you would rather ship a well-understood system than a clever one nobody else can maintain. You treat a feature as incomplete until it is tested, documented, and supportable - finishing the code is the middle of the job, not the end.
What Appnovation Offers Challenging and rewarding work with real impact
Direct Access to Cutting-Edge AI Platforms
Diverse and Inclusive Culture
Growth opportunities for personal and professional development
A collaborative and innovative work environment where your ideas are valued
Exposure to exciting projects and high-profile clients
Supportive work environment with access to company leaders
Hybrid working model
Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies!
At Appnovation, we recognize that diverse teams are the strongest teams. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace - we celebrate it! We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences and industries to apply. Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital.
Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.

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📌 Senior Technical Lead (.NET) (British Columbia)
🏢 Appnovation
📍 British Columbia