.NET Software Engineer GitHub Copilot AI-enabled development

Rachel Kelly IT Recruitment Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Job summary

Rachel Kelly IT Recruitment Limited in Dublin has a vacancy for a .NET Software Engineer on a Data & AI Solutions team. You will design, build, modernise, and continuously improve secure, scalable applications using C# and .NET, APIs, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

The role is four days onsite in Dublin City, with a salary up to €65,000 plus bonus and benefits. You will work across APIs, data, DevOps, and AI-enabled development, applying sound engineering judgement and a

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, and modern .NET.
• Proven experience building secure, scalable APIs, integrations, background services, and cloud-ready application components.
• Good knowledge of SQL Server, T-SQL, data modelling, query optimisation, and ORM tools such as Entity Framework or Dapper.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, Git-based workflows, automated testing, code reviews, and secure engineering practices.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to support coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, modernise, and support high-quality .NET applications, APIs, services, integrations, and cloud-native components.
• Translate business and product requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Work closely with product, architecture, cloud, security, data, and engineering teams to deliver solutions into production and support them through their lifecycle.
• Apply best engineering practices across solution design, coding, automated testing, peer review, CI/CD, observability, and production support.
• Use GitHub Copilot and other AI-enabled engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, code quality, refactoring, testing, documentation, and problem solving.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve performance, strengthen security, and simplify existing solutions.

Skills

C#

ASP.NET Core

Web API

Modern .NET

Entity Framework

Dapper

SQL Server

Azure

CI/CD

Git

GitHub Copilot

Job description

.NET Software Engineer, you will work on a Data & AI Solutions team to design, build, modernise, and continuously improve secure, scalable applications. Backend .NET experience, good full-stack awareness, and the ability to work across APIs, cloud platforms, data, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering practices. C# and modern .NET engineering experience, practical exposure to React or similar frontend technologies, and a mindset around quality, maintainability, security, and ownership. You will use modern engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot and other AI-enabled development capabilities, to improve delivery speed, code quality, testing, documentation, and problem solving while applying sound engineering judgement.

4 days a week onsite – Dublin City

Up to 65k with bonus and benefits

• 3-5 years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, and modern .NET.
• Proven experience building secure, scalable APIs, integrations, background services, and cloud-ready application components.
• Good knowledge of SQL Server, T-SQL, data modelling, query optimisation, and ORM tools such as Entity Framework or Dapper.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, Git-based workflows, automated testing, code reviews, and secure engineering practices.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to support coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation.

Key Skills Required - Ideally most of the following

• C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, modern .NET, object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and clean architecture.
• Microsoft Azure, cloud-native application development, secure configuration, monitoring, and production support.
• SQL Server, T-SQL, data modelling, performance tuning, Entity Framework, Dapper, or equivalent data access technologies.
• API design, integrations, background services, messaging, event-driven patterns, and distributed system concepts.
• Git, GitHub, pull request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality, peer review, and release practices.
• GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted development, agentic engineering workflows, prompt quality, and responsible review of generated code.

Regulated environments, ideally financial services or enterprise technology.

Cloud-native architecture, containers, service messaging, observability, DevSecOps, microservices, or event-driven platforms.

Supporting data platforms, analytics, automation, AI-enabled engineering, or internal developer productivity initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, modernise, and support high-quality .NET applications, APIs, services, integrations, and cloud-native components.
• Translate business and product requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Work closely with product, architecture, cloud, security, data, and engineering teams to deliver solutions into production and support them through their lifecycle.
• Apply best engineering practices across solution design, coding, automated testing, peer review, CI/CD, observability, and production support.
• Use GitHub Copilot and other AI-enabled engineering tools responsibly to improve productivity, code quality, refactoring, testing, documentation, and problem solving.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve performance, strengthen security, and simplify existing solutions.