Technical Lead (.Net Core) - IT (Information Technology) - Bangalore, India

Societe Generale SA; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Société Générale is seeking a senior .NET engineer to architect, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade applications. You will build scalable microservices, design secure REST APIs, and collaborate with UI, DevOps, QA, and product teams. Deep expertise in C#, .NET 8+, EF Core, and messaging with RabbitMQ is required.

Expect rigorous code reviews, TDD/BDD practices, and active participation in Agile processes. Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Copilot, and distributed tracing is advantageous.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with .NET core 8+

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade .NET Core applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and remediate such issues
• Design low latency, highly scalable microservices and obtain validations from Architects
• Build and consume secure, scalable REST APIs
• Participate in architecture and design discussions
• Ensure code quality through reviews, unit testing, and best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UI, DevOps, QA, Product Owners)
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance
• Follow Agile processes and ensure estimates are constantly optimized and Sprint/PI goals are met
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Support application deployments and production releases
• Guide the team & derive comprehensive benefits from GitHub CoPilot(velocity vs cost vs quality)

Skills

C#

.NET Core / .NET 8+

ASP.NET Core Web API

OOP & SOLID

TDD

BDD

RESTful API design

EF Core

Async programming

Logging & debugging

Secure coding

Relational Databases

Source control

RabbitMQ

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Microservices

Tools

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MS SQL Server

EF Core

Swagger/OpenAPI

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Required Experience

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience with .Net core 8+
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with RabbitMQ
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Microservices development

Core Skills Required

Strong Proficiency

• C#, .NET Core / .NET 8+
• ASP.NET Core (Web API & Microservices development)
• Object‑Oriented Programming (OOP) & SOLID principles
• Test‑driven development (TDD)
• Behaviour‑Driven Development (BDD)
• RESTful API design and development
• Entity Framework Core (EF Core)
• Asynchronous programming (async/await, Task‑based patterns)
• Exception handling, logging, and debugging
• Secure coding practices
• Any Relational Databases (Postgres, MSSQL server etc) (queries, joins, stored procedures, performance tuning)
• Source control frameworks and CICD pipelines
• Queues and Events driven programming.
• Authentication & Authorization: JWT, OAuth 2.0
• Experience with Message‑Oriented Middleware preferably RabbitMQ

Hands‑on Experience

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable, low latency, high‑performance APIs with .Net core 8+
• Developing high throughput microservices with Net core/.Net 8+.
• Experience in Entity Framework Core (EF Core)
• Asynchronous programming (async/await, Task‑based patterns)
• Authentication & Authorization: JWT, OAuth 2.0
• Any Relational Databases(Postgres, MSSQL server etc)
• Writing clean, reusable, and testable code
• Unit testing using xUnit / NUnit / MSTest
• Source control using Git (Azure DevOps / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Logging frameworks (Serilog / NLog)
• Application deployment and troubleshooting
• Integrating third‑party APIs and services.
• Publisher‑Consumer services using RabbitMQ
• Building full‑stack applications with React
• Demonstrated coding productivity/velocity gains using GitHub Copilot or other AI coding agents.

Working Knowledge

• CI/CD/GitOps pipelines
• Agile / Scrum development methodologies
• Caching mechanisms (Redis / in‑memory caching)
• API documentation tools (Swagger / OpenAPI)
• GitHub Copilot
• Distributed tracing
• Performance hotspot discovery & performance tuning
• Experience in Observability (ELK Stack)
• Experience in Mass Transit Framework

Good to Have

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Helm Charts
• Experience mentoring junior developers
• GitHub Actions

Nice to Have

• Apache Kafka
• Dapr
• ArgoCD
• Martendb
• Microsoft Azure
• NoSQL database like MongoDB
• Angular or ReactJS

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain enterprise‑grade .NET Core applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and remediate such issues
• Design low latency, highly scalable microservices and obtain validations from Architects
• Build and consume secure, scalable REST APIs
• Participate in architecture and design discussions
• Ensure code quality through reviews, unit testing, and best practices
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (UI, DevOps, QA, Product Owners)
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance
• Follow Agile processes and ensure estimates are constantly optimized and Sprint/PI goals are met
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Support application deployments and production releases
• Guide the team & derive comprehensive benefits from GitHub CoPilot(velocity vs cost vs quality)

Profile required

• Proven experience in the programming/scripting languages.
• Complete understanding of front, middle and back‑end programming concepts.
• Proficiency in one of the programming languages is added advantage.
• Ability to use designing and automation tools.
• Basic knowledge of CI practices.
• High learning agility.
• Excellent team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of any frameworks.
• Proven development experience on Python or Java
• Strong knowledge and experience in automated testing using Selenium framework
• Demonstrated experience in designing, building and maintaining data processing systems.
• Nice to have- Domain knowledge of Payments & Cash Management(SEPA, Cross Broder, ISO20022, Swift, Western Europe local schemes)

Why join us

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a dailybasis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us! Still hesitating? You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved. We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.