Azure Lead /Senior Developer

SFE; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SFE is seeking an Azure Lead /Senior Developer for a fully remote, full-time role based in Oakland, CA area. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions using C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, and Azure services.

Expect leadership across teams, strong communication, and hands-on work with Blazor UI and modern web architectures in a dynamic enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years designing/architecting enterprise software in C#/.NET.
• Hands-on Azure components: SQL DB, Blob, App Service, Functions, Service Bus.
• 5+ years with Azure DevOps, Git repos, pipelines.
• 3+ years leading software teams and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with Blazor, Bootstrap, responsive UI, web APIs.
• Strong communication across diverse teams; Agile and Waterfall.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight within the development team.
• Architect and build scalable solutions on .NET Core and Azure.
• Develop full-stack software including persistence, business logic, UI, and APIs.
• Write scalable, high quality code that meets requirements.
• Mentor offshore teams to improve delivery quality and velocity.
• Lead design reviews and enforce best practices in engineering.
• Own the software development life cycle from inception to production.
• Build strong relationships with analysts and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other teams to improve architecture and tooling.
• Communicate strategies and progress to leaders and teams.

Skills

Leadership / Technical Management

Mentoring teams

Cross-team communication

Problem solving

Agile & Waterfall experience

Tools

.NET Core

C#

ASP.NET Core

Entity Framework

Azure Functions

Azure SQL Database

Azure Blob Storage

App Service

Service Bus

Azure API Management

Azure DevOps

Blazor

Bootstrap

REST APIs

Job description

Section

Details

Job Title

Azure Lead /Senior Developer

Job Type

Fulltime

Client Location

Oakland, CA / Remote

Work Arrangement

100 % Remote

Duration

Fulltime permanent

Pay Rate / Salary

$120,000 - $130,000 in a year + Fulltime benefits

Job Summary

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

.NET Core, EF Core, Azure functions hands on experience

Hands on Azure functions, C#, .Net Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API

8 10 years of hands-on experience in designing/architecting enterprise software solutions including cloud-based applications using C#, .Net Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API

Hands on Azure components such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, App Service, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Queues, Azure API Management, etc.

Experience using best practices patterns and approaches to address the challenges inherent in re-engineering existing, complex systems

5+ years using Azure Dev Ops - especially Git Repositories, pull requests, and creation of Deployment Pipelines

3+ years developing UI-based applications leveraging modern practices and tools such as Blazor, Responsive Design, Bootstrap, Modular CSS, Ajax.

3-5 years of prior technical management experience leading and mentoring teams of software engineers.

Ability to build relationships, balance multiple priorities, and communicate across diverse teams.

Ability to deal with ambiguous situations.

Experience working with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

Effective communication and problem-solving capabilities

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Provide technical expertise, project oversight, communication, and collaboration within the assigned development team(s) and with stakeholders, guiding and ensuring projects meet specifications.

2. Play a key role in architecting, designing, and building performant and scalable solutions using the Microsoft .NET Core stack and Azure platform

3. Design and develop software applications on all levels (full stack) persistence, business logic and service layers, frontend, and APIs

4. Write scalable, testable, high-quality code that meets requirements

5. Work closely with the offshore counterparts to mentor the team and strengthen them in terms of proactive and predictable delivery while ensuring the desired quality standards.

6. Mentor engineers on Software Engineering best practices via design and code reviews. Ensure delivery of high-quality, value-driven, operationally efficient features that support technology platform and business initiatives.

7. Own the software development life cycle. Lead development work and provide vision from project inception to architecture planning, development, release, and production.

8. Build robust relati onships across development teams, business analysts and all key stakeholders involved in projects.

9. Collaborate closely with other teams (and managers) to help with continuous improvement of the architecture, tools, and processes.

10. Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization while keeping leaders apprised of strategies, operational progress, issues, concerns, mitigation, and remediation plans.