Senior .NET AI Engineer - Cloud & Event-Driven Platform

Aquent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health

Vision

Dental plans

Paid sick leave

Retirement plans with match

Job summary

Aquent Talent is seeking a visionary technologist in Austin to lead the integration of AI into critical financial workflows. You will drive design and implementation of scalable, event-driven applications using .NET and cloud-native architectures in a high-availability environment.

You will collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to translate business capabilities into robust technical solutions and modernize legacy capabilities toward distributed services and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in software engineering building scalable .NET, cloud-based, high-availability services.
• Experience leading design and implementation of event-driven, distributed systems in cloud-native environments.
• Proficient with message queues, event streaming, JSON/XML, caching, and observability patterns.
• 2+ years building cloud-native apps with containers, CI/CD, and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable, resilient event-driven apps using .NET and cloud-native patterns.
• Modernize high-volume services, APIs, and distributed capabilities for transaction processing.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Leverage Generative AI to accelerate development, testing, and documentation while ensuring quality.

Skills

NET

Cloud-native

Event-driven

AI/ML

Generative AI

CI/CD

Agile

Distributed systems

GIT/GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Aquent Talent is seeking a visionary technologist in Austin to lead the integration of AI into critical financial workflows. You will drive design and implementation of scalable, event-driven applications using .NET and cloud-native architectures in a high-availability environment.

You will collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to translate business capabilities into robust technical solutions and modernize legacy capabilities toward distributed services and