Remote Azure Senior AppDev Engineer: Cloud-Native .NET Lead

Ascend Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascend Technologies is seeking a Senior Azure AppDev Engineer to deliver complex .NET 8+ features and modernize applications in a fully remote role across the US. You will own services, APIs, and refactoring initiatives to move from legacy monoliths to modular, Azure-hosted solutions.

You will mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and help raise the team's cloud-native standards while collaborating with product and QA to ensure secure, observable, and production-ready software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of enterprise software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 6–8, and Web API development.
• Experience delivering Azure-hosted applications using Azure App Services and Azure SQL.
• Strong experience with EF Core and SQL Server fundamentals.
• Experience using Azure DevOps with Git branching, PRs, and CI/CD concepts.
• Working knowledge of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to estimate and deliver work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement .NET 8+ features and services aligned to program architecture standards.
• Lead refactoring of legacy modules into modern layered/service-oriented patterns.
• Build secure, maintainable REST APIs and integration components.
• Implement data access modernization using EF Core and optimized SQL design patterns.
• Participate in design reviews and provide peer code reviews to enforce engineering standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD maturity through pipeline improvements, deployment reliability, and release readiness practices.
• Collaborate with QA to ensure testability, defect prevention, and regression protection.
• Support resiliency/DR improvements through implementation and validationsupport activities.
• Provide coaching and guidance to AppDevEngineers; help raise team capability and consistency.
• Develop or contribute to the technical backlog, epics and user stories in conjunction with the architect.

Skills

C#

ASP.NET Core

.NET 6-8

Web API

Azure DevOps

Git

EF Core

SQL Server

Security best practices

Independent delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure App Services

Azure SQL

EF Core

SQL Server

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ascend Technologies is seeking a Senior Azure AppDev Engineer to deliver complex .NET 8+ features and modernize applications in a fully remote role across the US. You will own services, APIs, and refactoring initiatives to move from legacy monoliths to modular, Azure-hosted solutions.

You will mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and help raise the team's cloud-native standards while collaborating with product and QA to ensure secure, observable, and production-ready software.