Principal Software Engineer (.NET)

Maropost; Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Maropost is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (.NET) to architect and lead large-scale distributed systems, guiding engineering excellence across teams. The role demands deep .NET expertise, cloud-native design, and hands-on leadership, shaping long-term technology direction.

You will drive end-to-end system design, ensure scalability and security, and mentor teams while delivering high-quality code. Join a customer-obsessed, fast-moving environment at Maropost.

Qualifications

• 12+ years hands-on software development.
• 5+ years in .NET / .NET Core, C#.
• Cloud experience: GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Relational and NoSQL data stores expertise.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Frontend frameworks and backend integration know-how.
• Observability, tracing, and telemetry skills.
• Design scalable APIs and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture and engineering roadmap.
• Architect cloud-native, high-availability distributed systems.
• Influence engineering standards and platform strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and adoption strategies.
• Drive end-to-end system design with trade-offs on scale, latency, cost, and security.
• Lead debugging, performance optimization, and incident resolution.
• Represent engineering in architecture forums and governance groups.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and review critical designs.

Skills

C#

.NET Core

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Microservices

API design

CI/CD pipelines

NoSQL databases

Relational DBs

Frontend integration

Observability

Event-driven

Education

BSc/MSc CS

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Everything we do is for our customers!

Featured on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list and G2's leaderboard, Maropost offers a unified commerce experience that our customers need, transforming ecommerce, retail, marketing automation, merchandising, helpdesk and AI operations with one platform designed to scale for fast-growing businesses. With a relentless focus on our customers’ success, we are motivated by customer obsession, extreme urgency, excellence and resourcefulness to power 5,000+ global brands while we head to 100,000+.

Driven by the same customer-centric mentality as above, we empower businesses to achieve their goals and grow alongside us. If you're a driver and not passenger and are ready to make a significant impact and be part of our transformative journey, Maropost is the place for you.

The Opportunity

Thrive on change and grow beyond limits! We are looking for a bold thinker who sees a chance to learn and define what's possible with every challenge! Ready to make an impact? Welcome to Maropost and you can turn ideas into action!

As a Principal Software Engineer (.NET), you will serve as a technical thought leader, architecting large-scale distributed systems, guiding engineering excellence across teams, and enabling long-term technology direction. This role requires deep expertise in .NET, cloud-native architecture, system design, and the ability to steer engineering strategy while remaining hands-on.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Define and evolve the technical architecture and engineering roadmap for complex systems.
• Strong experience in architecting cloud-native, high-availability distributed systems and microservices, with end-to-end system design expertise covering scalability, fault tolerance, and security.
• Influence engineering standards, best practices, and long-term platform strategy while providing technical oversight across multiple teams and projects.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Strong knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, parallel programming, and high-throughput systems.
• Strong ability to drive end-to-end system design while making key architectural trade-offs across scalability, cost, latency, resilience, maintenance, and security.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, system-thinking mindset, and ability to break down complex engineering challenges.
• Write high-quality, performant, maintainable code.
• Conduct deep-dive reviews of architecture, design documents, and critical code.
• Lead complex debugging sessions, performance optimization, and production incident resolution.
• Represent engineering in architecture forums and governance groups.

What You'll Bring To Maropost

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 12+ years of hands-on software development experience with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• 5+ years of strong expertise in .NET / .NET Core, C#, and enterprise-grade backend frameworks.
• Experience architecting solutions on GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Expertise in relational and NoSQL data stores — SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, DevOps best practices, and production automation.
• Strong exposure to modern UI frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) and understanding of front-end integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of observability, including distributed tracing, structured logging, telemetry, performance monitoring.
• Proven expertise in designing scalable APIs, asynchronous workflows, and integration patterns using event-driven and messaging architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, EventHub).
• You exemplify Maropost’s Values:
• Customer Obsessed
• Extreme Urgency
• Excellence
• Resourceful

Message from the Founders: Maropost is looking for builders - people who want to drive our business forward at all costs in order to achieve the goals we have both short and long term for the results and outcomes that that will bring to us all.