Remote Azure Senior AppDev Engineer: Modernization & APIs

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

Job summary

Ascend Technologies is seeking a highly autonomous Azure Senior AppDev Engineer for a fully remote role in the United States. You will deliver complex features and modernization components, owning Azure-hosted services, APIs, and refactoring initiatives across the client platform.

You will mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and contribute to CI/CD maturity while ensuring secure, observable, and production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years professional software engineering experience in enterprise application development.
• 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 (or equivalent).
• Strong experience with EF Core and SQL Server fundamentals.
• Experience using Azure DevOps with Git branching, pull requests, and CI/CD concepts.
• Working knowledge of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization implementation 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 toAppDevEngineers; help raise team capability and consistency.
• Develop or contribute to the technical backlog, epics and user stories in conjunction with the architect.
• May be asked to perform the technical product owner role.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by management.

Skills

C#

ASP.NET Core

.NET 6–8

Web API development

Azure-hosted applications

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure App Services

Azure SQL

EF Core

SQL Server

Git

Job description

Ascend Technologies is seeking a highly autonomous Azure Senior AppDev Engineer for a fully remote role in the United States. You will deliver complex features and modernization components, owning Azure-hosted services, APIs, and refactoring initiatives across the client platform.

You will mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and contribute to CI/CD maturity while ensuring secure, observable, and production-ready solutions.