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Lead Software Engineer - C# .NET / Azure
SALARY: $123K - $169k plus discretionary bonus
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
HYBRID 3 DAYS ONSITE
Looking for candidates with strong core coding fundamentals who can also effectively leverage Claude Code as part of their development workflow.
Ideal Candidate
• 8+ years of software engineering experience (more is better).
• Current or recent Lead Software Engineer (preferred) or strong Senior Engineer with leadership responsibilities.
• 2–3+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, technical planning, architecture, and proof-of-concepts (POCs).
• Ideal stack: Azure, React (or Next,js), .Net
• Full stack engineers only.
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required, must have equivalent experience.
Required Technical Skills
• .NET (C#)
• React (or Next.js )
• Microsoft Azure
○ Azure App Service
○ Azure Container Apps/AKS
○ Azure SQL
○ Azure Service Bus
○ Azure OpenAI Service
• Must have built production applications in Azure from the ground up.
• System design and cloud architecture.
• REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Microservices and distributed applications.
• SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, or similar.
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
- Lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure, with ownership from architecture through production support.
- Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security, and hold the team to them through active code authorship and thorough code review.
- Make architectural decisions for new features and systems, weighing trade-offs and ensuring solutions are maintainable, observable, and built to scale.
- Lead the integration of AI and GenAI capabilities into Firm applications, including LLM-powered features, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic search, and agentic workflows.
- Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure on CI/CD pipelines, container platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps), and cloud deployment patterns.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack development skills, including .NET (C#)
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services used in application development (e.g., Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps/AKS, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure OpenAI Service).
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB).
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals: system design, design patterns, testing strategy, and distributed systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), version control (Git), and Agile development practices.
- Experience building or integrating AI and GenAI features in production, such as LLM APIs (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude), RAG pipelines, vector search, semantic ranking, or agentic workflows.
- Experience with .NET Aspire for building and orchestrating cloud-native .NET applications.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).