Lead Backend Engineer - .NET/C# on Azure, Cloud-Native

Sayva Solutions; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plan

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Wellness benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Employee programs

Job summary

Sayva Solutions is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join a team building a cloud-native platform for safety-focused products. This role blends hands-on backend development with technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration in a modern Azure environment.

You will design scalable APIs, contribute to system design, and guide a small engineering team while delivering high-quality software and maintaining operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience developing backend applications, services, and APIs.
• Advanced proficiency with .NET and C# in production environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST API standards, cloud scalability, and modern backend development patterns.
• Hands-on experience developing cloud-native solutions in Azure.
• Experience with Azure services such as Functions, Container Apps, Blob Storage, API Management, Service Bus, and/or Event Hubs.
• Strong relational database experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications with Docker; Kubernetes experience is highly valued.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and caching technologies such as Redis.
• Familiarity with production monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and Azure Application Insights.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to system design while remaining highly hands-on with software development.
• Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers; formal people-management experience is not required.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders.
• Experience developing public-facing APIs or integrating third-party APIs is a plus.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, domain-driven design, clean architecture, microservices, GraphQL, and/or NoSQL databases is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on development of backend services and APIs using .NET/C# within a modern Azure environment.
• Help build a new cloud-native platform centered on safety alerts, external integrations, and scalable API capabilities.
• Design and implement distributed services with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a small engineering team while continuing to contribute code ~70% of the time.
• Establish practical development standards through thoughtful code reviews, testing practices, and day-to-day technical direction.
• Contribute to system design and architectural discussions while remaining focused on implementation and delivery.
• Develop solutions leveraging Azure services, containerized workloads, messaging technologies, search capabilities, caching, and other components of a distributed architecture.
• Help define effective REST API patterns and standards, including solutions involving public-facing and third-party integrations.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into clear, practical technical solutions.
• Improve application reliability and visibility through monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Mentor engineers at different experience levels and create an accountable, collaborative environment.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

.NET/C# backend

Distributed systems

Azure

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Redis

Observability

TypeScript

Tools

Azure Functions

Container Apps

Blob Storage

API Management

Service Bus

Event Hubs

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Azure Application Insights

Job description

Sayva Solutions is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join a team building a cloud-native platform for safety-focused products. This role blends hands-on backend development with technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration in a modern Azure environment.

You will design scalable APIs, contribute to system design, and guide a small engineering team while delivering high-quality software and maintaining operational excellence.