Senior Software Engineer (Modern .NET)

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver REST APIs, domain logic, and background workflows for finance, payroll, and future ERP product areas.
• Model durable data structures and manage EF Core migrations, SQL performance, and production data changes.
• Own complex capabilities from technical discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and production follow-up.
• Partner with product, design, and frontend engineering to break complex workflows into practical, testable increments.
• Help define integration and data-import approaches as customers transition from established desktop products to the new SaaS suite.
• Build appropriate unit and integration testing around business rules, API contracts, data integrity, and failure scenarios.
• Collaborate with the platform lead on CI/CD, observability, infrastructure, releases, and production diagnosis.
• Design secure, permission-aware, and auditable workflows appropriate for financial and government software.
• Contribute to technical leadership through code review, mentoring, documentation, and shared engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful ownership of production backend systems.
• Strong production experience with C#/.NET and ASP.NET Core.
• Strong fundamentals in REST APIs, application architecture, and data modeling.
• Production experience with relational databases, including SQL Server, EF Core, schema migrations, and query optimization.
• Strong unit and integration testing practices, with the ability to align testing effort to technical and business risk.
• Experience deploying or operating cloud-hosted applications, preferably in Azure.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development workflows.
• Working familiarity with modern frontend architecture and browser/API integration; deep frontend specialization is not required.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across engineering, product, and design
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools responsibly while maintaining ownership of design, security, and code quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience with React, Angular, Vue, or another modern TypeScript framework.
• Familiarity with Figma or similar design collaboration tools.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
• Greenfield or 0-to-1 product development experience.
• Experience modernizing desktop or client/server applications into SaaS products.
• Experience with finance, payroll, ERP, fintech, or local-government software.
• Experience working in regulated or audit-focused environments, including SOC 2, GovRAMP, or FedRAMP readiness.

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