Lead Full-Stack Engineer — AI-Powered Apps on .NET/Azure

Sidley Austin LLP; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 112,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Benefits program

Job summary

Sidley Austin LLP seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and drive full-stack development across .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure. You will write and review code, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable software.

You will lead architectural decisions, ensure security, and champion AI integration with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and semantic search.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering with progression to lead/principal level.
• Strong full-stack skills: .NET (C#), React, Next.js, REST/GraphQL API design.
• Architect and deliver production-grade apps with reliability, performance and security.
• Hands-on Azure experience (App Service, AKS/Container Apps, Azure SQL, Service Bus, OpenAI).
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), Git, Agile practices.
• Experience leading engineers and setting technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of full-stack apps using .NET, React/Next.js, Azure with ownership from architecture to production support.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security; ensure through code reviews.
• Make architectural decisions balancing trade-offs for maintainability and scalability.
• Lead AI/GenAI integration (LLM, RAG, semantic search, agentic workflows) in Firm apps.
• Mentor engineers via pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects to translate requirements to technical plans.
• Ensure production reliability, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis.
• Apply security best practices across stack; protect sensitive legal data.
• Partner with DevOps on CI/CD, container platforms (AKS, Azure Container Apps), cloud patterns.
• Stay current on technologies and bring recommendations to the team.
• Participate in hiring and technical interviews.

Skills

Full-stack development

C#

React

Next.js

REST/GraphQL

Azure services

CI/CD

Git

Agile

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure AKS

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Cosmos DB

Job description

Sidley Austin LLP seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and drive full-stack development across .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure. You will write and review code, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable software.

You will lead architectural decisions, ensure security, and champion AI integration with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and semantic search.