AI-First .NET Engineer for Cloud-Native SaaS

Quest Software Canada Inc

Nova Scotia

Hybrid

CAD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Quest Software Canada Inc. is seeking an experienced AI Software Engineer to advance AI-first software development for a cloud-native SaaS product on Azure. You will contribute to codebase and help the team adopt AI coding practices to improve speed, quality, and reliability.

The role requires strong C#/.NET, Azure cloud experience, and hands-on use of AI coding agents in production. You will collaborate in an Agile SCRUM team and participate in architecture reviews and CI/CD processes.

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, troubleshooting, 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.
Nice to Have: Azure OpenAI Service, large language model APIs, evaluation frameworks, observability, or AI application security.
Nice to Have: Angular or React and TypeScript.

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 that enable 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, including Azure Functions, Microsoft Graph API, Azure Data Explorer, Cosmos DB, AKS and ACA and Event Hubs.
Contribute to architecture, technical decision-making, code reviews, CI/CD, release readiness, and ownership of critical product components in an Agile SCRUM environment.