.NET Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Act as a senior, hands-on developer accountable for the design, development, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of a large-scale production application.

• Assume responsibility for the application codebase and collaborate closely with the Technical Lead to set technical direction, engineering standards, and development best practices.

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs utilizing C# and .NET 10/.NET Core.

• Create and support cloud-native applications deployed within AWS GovCloud.

• Design and sustain scalable, resilient, and highly available services that process millions of messages monthly.

• Develop and support event-driven and asynchronous processing solutions leveraging RabbitMQ and AWS SQS.

• Design, develop, and optimize data access and persistence solutions using PostgreSQL on AWS RDS.

• Develop, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes managed via Rancher.

• Facilitate the integration and operation of machine learning capabilities within the microservices architecture.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools, code-generation technologies, AI agents, and AI development frameworks to enhance productivity and speed up delivery.

• Review AI-generated code for architecture, security, maintainability, performance, and adherence to coding standards.

• Conduct code reviews, mentor developers, troubleshoot intricate technical issues, and establish engineering best practices.

• Ensure code quality and security through automated scanning and static code analysis, including the use of SonarQube.

• Manage source code and engage in development and CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps.

• Diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, messaging, database, and integration challenges.

• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to monitor and ensure the health and availability of production applications.

• Assist with production releases, deployments, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.

• Participate in occasional after-hours support for scheduled releases and critical incidents.

• Identify enhancements to architecture, performance, resiliency, observability, automation, and developer productivity.

• Engage in Agile development activities, including technical planning, estimation, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience, including extensive work in developing and supporting enterprise-scale production applications.

• Expert-level hands-on development experience with C#, .NET Core, and modern .NET (versions 8/9/10 or similar).

• Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures.

• Experience in developing and operating applications within AWS, preferably AWS GovCloud.

• Significant experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production settings.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes management platforms such as Rancher.

• Experience in developing asynchronous, event-driven, or message-based applications using RabbitMQ and AWS SQS or equivalent technologies.

• Strong relational database development skills with PostgreSQL, including database design, query optimization, and performance troubleshooting.

• Experience with AWS RDS or similar managed relational database services.

• Profound understanding of distributed systems, high-availability architectures, scalability, resiliency, and production application performance.

• Experience in supporting high-volume production systems and diagnosing complex issues across application, database, messaging, container, and infrastructure layers.

• Proven ability to take technical ownership of a substantial codebase and independently lead complex engineering initiatives.

• Experience conducting code reviews and providing technical guidance and mentorship to other developers.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and code-generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or comparable AI development technologies.

• Ability to effectively utilize AI tools while applying sound engineering judgment to validate, secure, test, and maintain AI-generated code.

• Experience with SonarQube or similar static code analysis and code-quality platforms.

• Proficiency in Azure DevOps repositories, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevSecOps practices.

• Strong understanding of secure software development practices suitable for enterprise and Federal environments.

• Willingness to provide occasional after-hours support for production releases and critical incidents.

• US Citizenship is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning the first of the month after joining.

• 401(k) plan with immediately vested employer contributions; no matching required.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO).

• An additional day of paid wellness leave each calendar year.

• Ten federal holidays.

• Pet insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Internal training programs.

• Company-sponsored industry certifications.

• Team building activities.

• Community volunteering opportunities.

• Quarterly HQ days.

• Wellness events.

• Happy hours.

• Family fun events.

• Collaborative work environment.