Lead .NET Engineer

Every developer here has Claude and GitHub Copilot, and they are part of how the work gets done rather than an optional extra. What matters to us is judgment: knowing which tasks to hand to a model and which to write yourself, giving it enough context to return something usable, and reviewing what comes back as carefully as you would review any other engineer's pull request. You should be able to explain every line you merge.

The more important thing to know is where this is heading. Over the next six to twelve months we expect to move substantially toward agentic development, with agents taking on larger and more autonomous portions of the build and test cycle. That will change our tooling, our workflow, and what the day-to-day job looks like. We are not asking you to have done this before, because very few people have. We are asking you to be genuinely interested in figuring it out with us, and comfortable working in an environment where the way we build is still being reshaped.

If you would rather join a team with a settled toolchain, this is an honest reason to look elsewhere. If that prospect is the interesting part, we should talk.

5 to 8 years building and supporting production .NET applications, including time as the senior person others came to.

Strong C# and ASP.NET, across both modern .NET and the older framework versions that real businesses still run on.

API design and development experience, including integrations that external partners depend on.

Real SQL Server depth: query optimization, indexing, and schema design against systems under load.

Production experience on Azure. Our platform runs there.

Enough front-end familiarity (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) to work effectively on customer-facing applications.

Judgment about legacy code. Knowing when to modernize, when to leave it alone, and how to tell the difference.

Experience directing other engineers' work, formally or not. You should be able to describe a time you set someone else's technical direction and what you did when it went sideways.

Comfort working through change. Our stack and our development practices are actively evolving, and you should find that energizing rather than unsettling.

Clear written communication. A distributed team with overnight handoffs runs on writing.

Experience in automotive, marketplaces, lead generation, or another high-volume transactional domain.

Migration experience, particularly legacy .NET Framework to modern .NET, or on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL.

Multi-threading and parallel processing work.

Familiarity with XML and XSLT, which appear in parts of this platform.

CI/CD and automated testing practice.

Agile delivery in a distributed team.

The systems here matter and the team is small enough that you will see the effect of your work directly. We invest ahead of the curve on tooling, we retire what no longer serves us, and we would rather ship and learn than deliberate indefinitely. If you want scope rather than a slice of someone else's plan, there is plenty of it.

Compensation

Salary Range: $110, 000 - $130, 000 CAD

Compensation will be determined by factors including knowledge and skills, role-specific qualifications, market location, and experience.