Lead Software Engineer – AI/GenAI on .NET & Azure (Hybrid)

Request Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Request Technology, LLC is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure. You will own architecture through production support, setting standards for quality, testing, performance, and security.

You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into concrete technical plans and milestones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineers and setting technical direction.
• Strong full-stack skills with .NET, React, Next.js.
• Proven ability to design scalable, secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure, with ownership from architecture through production support.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security, and hold the team to them through active code authorship and thorough code review.
• Make architectural decisions for new features and systems, weighing trade-offs and ensuring solutions are maintainable, observable, and built to scale.
• Lead the integration of AI and GenAI capabilities into Firm applications, including LLM-powered features, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic search, and agentic workflows.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and ongoing feedback.
• Work with product managers, designers, and architects to turn business requirements into clear technical plans and realistic delivery milestones.
• Own the reliability of production systems: set observability standards, lead incident response, and see issues through to root cause.
• Apply security best practices across the stack, including authentication, authorization, and data protection, with particular care given the sensitivity of legal data.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure on CI/CD pipelines, container platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps), and cloud deployment patterns.

Skills

.NET (C#)

React

Next.js

REST/GraphQL APIs

Azure

Leadership

Design patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure App Service

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure SQL

Cosmos DB

Azure OpenAI Service

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Request Technology, LLC is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure. You will own architecture through production support, setting standards for quality, testing, performance, and security.

You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into concrete technical plans and milestones.