Lead .Net Developer

Job Description:

• 7+ years of hands-on .NET development; minimum 4 years on .NET 6+ with proven progression toward .NET 8/10.
• Strong command of Clean Architecture and DDD aggregates, value objects, domain events, bounded contexts.
• Solid EF Core skills: fluent configuration, migrations, performance tuning, multi-database support.
• JWT / OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect implementation in ASP.NET Core.
• MSSQL Server at production scale.
• Docker and container-first development; CI/CD awareness (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
• Proficiency in xUnit for unit and integration testing.

Strong Advantage:

• Experience with Azure Identity, Managed Identity, and Azure Key Vault secret management.

Good-To-Have (Negotiable):

• Practical CQRS and event-sourcing experience.
• Production experience with Apache Kafka topic design, consumer groups, offsets, exactly-once semantics.
• Experience with Mass Transit or a comparable messaging framework including saga/state machine patterns.
• Redis in a distributed caching.
• Hangfire or Quartz.NET for durable background job processing.
• Open Telemetry SDK instrumentation.
• Serilog with enrichers, structured sinks.
• Kubernetes basics health probes, resource limits.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset.
• Collaborative code-review culture; constructive and specific feedback.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and decomposing large problems independently.

Education:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent demonstrable experience.