# Technical Lead (.Net Core) > Octal Philippines Inc. · Taguig, Philippines · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-01 **Salary:** unknown currency 80,000–100,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description We are seeking a highly technical, forward-thinking Technical Lead to drive the end-to-end design, development, and integration of our core API ecosystem. In this role, you will balance hands-on backend engineering with strategic technical leadership—guiding a team of systems analysts and developers to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions. Drawing from top-tier banking engineering standards, you will be responsible for alignment of the technical direction, evolving engineering best practices, and ensuring our platforms deliver exceptional reliability, observability, and business value. **Team Leadership & Delivery Alignment** - Engineering Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and strengthen the development team; foster a collaborative environment and cultivate a high bar for engineering craftsmanship. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Owners to scope, review, and refine user stories, and collaborate with Solutions Architects to map out robust technical solutions. - Roadmap & Project Delivery: Plan, drive, and execute 2 to 5 parallel project implementations, ensuring milestones align seamlessly with the broader product roadmap. **Architecture, Integration & Cloud Evolution** - API & Microservices Architecture: Design and review highly secure, scalable, and resilient RESTful APIs and distributed microservices platforms. - Financial & Systems Integration: Lead complex third-party and backend system integrations, with an emphasis on optimized routing and secure financial message transformation. - Cloud & Infrastructure Advocacy: Continuous evolution of cloud infrastructure, making it easier for engineers to utilize cloud platforms efficiently while maintaining code quality and system performance. **Git Workflow & GitOps Process Engineering** - Process Standards Definition: Define, standardize, and govern the team's version control branching strategies and code promotion pathways. - Commit Strategy & Hygene: Enforce strict rules around atomic commits, structured conventional commit messages, and local pre-commit hooks (e.g., linting, secret scanning, formatting). - Merge Request (MR / PR) Governance: Establish rigorous merge request policies including mandatory peer code reviews, automated security/vulnerability gating, architectural alignment checks, and successful integration test runs before approval. - Post-Merge Activities & Automation: Oversee post-merge triggers, ensuring successful automated deployment to lower environments (Staging/UAT), managing artifact versioning/tagging, executing post-deployment sanity/smoke tests, and tracking deployment observability metrics. **Testing, Observability, & Incident Management** - Development and Production Escalation: Act as the ultimate technical point of escalation to rapidly diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve critical production issues. - Quality Assurance & Sanity Testing: Drive the execution of thorough deployment sanity testing across environments to validate critical workflows and integration points before production releases. - System Reliability: Focus deeply on system reliability and observability, ensuring proactive health tracking and automated error management across environments. **Core Development & Frameworks** - Experience: Minimum 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in backend development using C#.NET Framework and .NET Core/.NET 6+. - Banking Domain Tech (Plus): Familiarity or proficiency with modern banking ecosystem architectures (e.g., Java/Spring Boot microservices or core banking platforms) is a major advantage. - Integration Standards: Deep understanding of data serialization, API management platforms, and financial messaging formats (JSON, XML, SOAP). - Processes: Solid experience developing automated background processes, batch jobs, and console applications. **Testing & Code Quality** - Unit Testing: Proven expertise in writing comprehensive unit tests and utilizing mocking frameworks to maintain high code coverage and ensure business logic accuracy. - Sanity & Regression Testing: Experience designing and executing rapid sanity checks and API test suites (e.g., via Postman, SoapUI, or automated scripts) to verify core API health post-deployment. **Database & Data Managemen**t - Strong proficiency in relational database management systems, specifically PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL). - Advanced capability in writing optimized SQL queries, complex stored procedures, and managing evolving data schemas. **DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure** - Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with containerization using Docker and production orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (K8s) or Red Hat OpenShift. - Cloud Experience: Prior experience building and deploying scalable solutions on major cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure. - CI/CD & Agile: Strong understanding of automation through modern CI/CD practices (Git, automated deployment pipelines) paired with Agile methodologies using tools like Jira. ## Requirements - Accountability & Adaptability: A strong problem-solving mindset with the resilience to thrive under pressure and adapt to moving project scopes. - Strategic Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to translate dense technical architecture into actionable, dependency-free tasks for developers. - Critical Thinking & Quality Focus: A natural inclination toward establishing engineering standards, ensuring rigorous unit test code coverage, and maintaining thorough system documentation. ## Benefits - Government Mandated Benefits (SSS, Pag-Ibig, Philheath, and 13th month) - Health Insurance - Standard Leave (Emergency, Sick, and Vacation) ## Apply [Apply at Octal Philippines Inc.](https://apply.workable.com/octal-philippines-inc-4/j/1BA49F8624/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)