Principal Software Engineer (.NET)

Maropost; Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in India seeks a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience in .NET development. This role involves architecting scalable systems, mentoring engineers, and driving technical standards. Ideal candidates should be customer-centric, possess strong skills in C#/.NET, and have cloud architecture expertise, particularly in GCP. If you're ready to contribute significantly in a dynamic environment, this opportunity at Maropost awaits you.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience as a seasoned .NET developer or application developer.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with C#/.NET.
• Expertise in GCP Services and Cloud Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision and long-term architecture.
• Evaluate technology choices and platform decisions.
• Provide technical expertise for incidents and root cause analysis.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.

Skills

C#/.NET 4 and above

GCP Services

Microservices Design Patterns

SQL Server / Cloud SQL

Unit Test Frameworks

Entity Framework

REST APIs

Git/VSTS and CI/CD

Azure

Agile methodologies

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript (Angular)

.NET Core

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!

The Principal Software Engineer is the highest‑level individual contributor with 10+ years of experience, responsible for driving the technical direction of the product, ensuring long‑term quality and scalability, and solving the most complex engineering challenges. The role influences architecture, engineering standards, and technical strategy while remaining hands‑on and deeply involved in the codebase and system design. Good to have experience in designing high availability systems, migration between platforms Azure/Aws/GCP, experience in retail domain.

What you will be responsible for

• Define and evolve the technical vision and long‑term architecture for the product
• Evaluate technology choices, patterns, and platform decisions.
• Identify risks in the current architecture and create long‑range remediation plans.
• Ensure the system can support growth, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead design and implementation of,, or high‑risk features.
• Break down complex problems and create clear, actionable technical plans.
• Provide deep technical expertise for incidents, root cause analysis, and recovery.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, observability, and reliability.
• Champion technical best practices across the team
• Review and guide major architectural documents, RFCs, and design proposals.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering tools, frameworks, and development practices.
• Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers, providing guidance on design, patterns, and problem solving.
• Share knowledge through design reviews, technical sessions, and documentation.
• Raise the overall technical bar of the engineering organisation.
• Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure technical strategy supports business goals.
• Align engineering teams on common standards and shared platform components.
• Influence technical decisions across multiple workstreams within the product.
• Write high‑quality code for critical components.
• Lead by example with pragmatic, scalable engineering solutions.
• Participate in peer reviews, incident response, and performance discussions.

What you will bring to Maropost

• Proven experience of 10 years as a seasoned .NET developer or application developer.
• 5 plus years of strong hands‑on experience with the C# /.NET 4 and above.
• Expertise in GCP Services and Cloud Architecture.
• Good understanding of Microservices Design Patterns.
• Extensive experience with SQL Server / Cloud SQL (8+ years).
• Hands‑on experience with Unit Test Frameworks (5+ years).
• Experience with Entity Framework is good to have (5+ years).
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC, SOAP)
• Git/VSTS and CI/CD experience
• Cloud Services (Azure)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• HTML / CSS, MVC, NET Core, an open‑source web development framework, .NET, WebForms, JavaScript (Angular)
• 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.

If that isn't for you that’s ok, for those of you that it is please get in touch with us!