Senior .NET Desktop Engineer – Onsite in Houston

Coforge; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Houston, TX, to lead design and hands-on engineering for the .NET 8 desktop portfolio. You will own features, manage authentication, packaging, installers, and CI/CD, and collaborate on a shared domain engine with scientists.

The role demands producing production-grade code weekly, expanding responsibility for cross-cutting design and code reviews as you grow into senior leadership within the desktop platform team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years on a production Windows desktop application of meaningful size and lifetime.
• A track record of landing non-trivial work independently — designing it, shipping it, reviewing the team's response to it, and supporting it in production.
• Demonstrable experience operating across multiple repositories that share logic, including the disciplined practice of landing the same logical change as coordinated PRs across more than one codebase.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship meaningful chunks of the .NET 8 desktop portfolio independently.
• Hold the technical line on authentication, packaging, installers, and CI/CD.
• Steward the shared numerical / domain engine library alongside our scientists.
• Write meaningful production code week-in, week-out with increasing design responsibilities.

Skills

C#

NET 8

WinForms

Azure Pipelines

CI/CD

MSBuild

NuGet

SQL Server

MongoDB Atlas

Entity Framework

ASP.NET Core

AKS

Azure Service Bus

UI Automation

FlaUI

JMeter

Polly

Azure AD / Entra ID

Microsoft.IdentityModel

Tools

InstallShield

WiX Toolset

Azure Artifacts

Job description

Coforge is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Houston, TX, to lead design and hands-on engineering for the .NET 8 desktop portfolio. You will own features, manage authentication, packaging, installers, and CI/CD, and collaborate on a shared domain engine with scientists.

The role demands producing production-grade code weekly, expanding responsibility for cross-cutting design and code reviews as you grow into senior leadership within the desktop platform team.