Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take full responsibility for the pod’s delivery outcomes from start to finish, encompassing decomposition, sequencing, awareness of dependencies, and release.

• Develop production-level .NET services, APIs, data access components, and mature-codebase elements on a weekly basis.

• Incorporate SimpliAI capabilities into product functionalities, which include agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, tool invocation, and model-backed behaviors.

• Integrate evaluations and traces into AI functionalities from the outset.

• Act as the designated reviewer for pod code, including code generated by agents.

• Facilitate a structured Plan-and-Review cycle with clear assumptions and open questions.

• Oversee the application of the Wright agent loop and Conductor delivery system, establishing guidelines and addressing failures that need human intervention.

• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers as they develop their designs.

• Communicate and manage the pod’s technical debt and trade-offs effectively.

• Ensure production quality, manage latency, oversee costs, handle on-call duties, and conduct postmortems.

• Forward designs to Architecture when they exceed the pod’s scope.

• Navigate ambiguous tasks through production and enhance pod members' capabilities via code reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in building and delivering production software.

• Strong expertise in .NET and C#, particularly with ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, asynchronous patterns, performance optimization, and profiling.

• Proven experience serving as the senior engineer in a pod, squad, or feature team while remaining actively involved in coding.

• Familiarity with large, mature codebases, including refactoring under load, employing strangler patterns, or extracting services from a monolithic structure.

• Evidence of integrating LLM-driven features into a product that is in active use.

• Proficiency in prompt and context engineering, tool invocation, structured outputs, and evaluating features backed by LLMs.

• Fluency in Azure, including knowledge of AKS, App Service, Service Bus, and SQL.

• Comfortable working with CI/CD processes, GitHub, and Octopus Deploy or similar tools.

• Strong judgment in code reviews and the ability to articulate reasons for rejection decisions.

• Excellent written communication skills; a writing sample will be required.

• Experience in government, healthcare, or other regulated environments is advantageous.

• Must not require sponsorship from the employer for a work visa.

• Must meet employment authorization verification requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans with substantial employer contributions for both employees and their dependents.

• Buy-up insurance plans available at additional costs.

• Company-funded life and disability insurance.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Flexible time off policy.

• 401k plan with a 4% employer match.

• Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses.

• Performance bonuses.