AI-First .NET Engineer for Azure Cloud

Quest Software; Nova Scotia; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual bonuses

Health, family and retirement benefits

Flexible work options

Generous PTO and wellness programs

Mentorship and leadership programs

Job summary

Quest Software is seeking an experienced AI Software Engineer to advance AI-first software development for a cloud-native SaaS product on Azure. You will blend C#/.NET backend expertise with hands-on AI tooling to accelerate development, quality, and test coverage while shaping reusable AI workflows.

You will design prompts, guardrails, and workflows, contribute to architecture and CI/CD, and implement scalable serverless services within an Agile SCRUM team.

Qualifications

• Completion of a computer science undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of professional software development experience, including strong hands-on C# and .NET experience.
• Demonstrated professional experience using AI coding agents, AI-assisted development tools, or agentic development workflows as a substantial part of real software development work.
• Advanced practical experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, or comparable AI-powered development platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI coding tools to improve software design, implementation productivity, code quality, automated testing, debugging, refactoring, code review, or technical documentation.
• Experience building Azure cloud applications using event-driven, service based or microservice architectures.
• Experience building scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, SOLID principles, secure development, automated testing, continuous integration, debugging, and maintainable software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate effectively in an Agile team environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the adoption of AI-first software development practices across the project team.
• Use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development platforms extensively in day-to-day product engineering, including solution design, implementation, automated testing, debugging, troubleshooting, refactoring, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Design reusable prompts, agent instructions, development workflows, validation steps, and guardrails for consistent and responsible AI-assisted software development.
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable, serverless, cloud-native SaaS capabilities using C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure technologies.
• Contribute to architecture, technical decision-making, code reviews, CI/CD, release readiness, and ownership of critical product components in an Agile SCRUM environment.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure

AI coding agents

Agentic development workflows

Backend development

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Windsurf

Azure DevOps

Job description

Quest Software is seeking an experienced AI Software Engineer to advance AI-first software development for a cloud-native SaaS product on Azure. You will blend C#/.NET backend expertise with hands-on AI tooling to accelerate development, quality, and test coverage while shaping reusable AI workflows.

You will design prompts, guardrails, and workflows, contribute to architecture and CI/CD, and implement scalable serverless services within an Agile SCRUM team.