Senior Development Lead

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior .NET Backend Developer at Band E2.2 to design, build, and support high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable .NET backend components and services. This is a senior individual-contributor role that combines hands-on delivery with technical leadership—resolving complex technical problems, defining and advocating best practices and coding standards, and mentoring team members in .NET, C#, and SQL Server technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Guidance & Best Practices:
• Provide technical guidance and solutions by defining, advocating, and implementing best practices and coding standards in .NET development, ensuring high-quality outputs from the team.
• Participate in technical discussions and reviews, acting as a consultant for feasibility studies involving technical alternatives, architectural best practices, and risk assessments.
• Ensure process compliance in assigned modules and contribute to technical design discussions, estimation, and solution options.

• Development & Design:
• Design and build .NET components, services, and enhancements within the agreed architecture and standards.
• Translate user stories and specifications into clean, efficient, and testable implementations.
• Handle complex technical problems, performance issues, and non-trivial defects independently.
• Build and evolve .NET services, Web APIs, and background workers with clean separation of concerns.
• Apply modern .NET features, configuration, logging, and dependency injection consistently across the codebase.
• Modernize legacy .NET Framework components towards modern .NET, containers, and cloud-ready hosting.

• Quality Engineering:
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and regression tests to agreed coverage expectations.
• Participate actively in code reviews, providing and acting on constructive feedback.
• Apply secure coding practices, effective error handling, and appropriate logging.

• Delivery & Support:
• Deliver committed scope within agreed sprint or release timelines with predictable quality.
• Support build, deployment, environment issues, and release verification activities.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes.
• Prepare and submit comprehensive status reports to minimize exposure and risks on the project, facilitating timely closure of escalations and ensuring transparent communication with stakeholders.

• Mentoring & Collaboration:
• Develop and enhance team capabilities by mentoring members in .NET, C#, and SQL Server technologies, fostering growth and increasing overall productivity.
• Mentor junior developers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with leads, architects, QA, business analysts, and support teams.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and dependency discussions.

Skill Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• 8+ years of hands-on .NET development experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong track record delivering production-grade components across full delivery cycles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.

Must Have

.NET Framework & .NET Core (modern .NET), C# — advanced language proficiency, ASP.NET Core & Web API, Microsoft SQL Server & database design.

Good to Have

Microservices architecture & event-driven design, Azure or equivalent cloud platform, Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines & Infrastructure as Code, Entity Framework, MS Certified: Solutions Developer (MCSD).