Senior .NET Engineer - AI-Driven, Lead Pod (Remote)

Jobot; Ashburn (VA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance

Dental/vision

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

Home office stipend

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Senior .NET Software Engineer in Ashburn, VA, with 7+ years of production software experience and deep .NET/C# expertise. You’ll own delivery for a small pod, write production code weekly, and drive AI capabilities into product features with guardrails and performance goals.

You’ll mentor mid‑level and junior engineers, review code (including AI-written code), manage technical debt, and collaborate with architecture to expand the platform in a fast-moving environment that

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Strong background in .NET and C# development (ASP.NET Core, EF Core, async patterns, performance).
• Experience as a senior engineer on a pod, squad or feature team while staying hands-on in code.
• Experience refactoring a large, mature codebase (strangler patterns or extracting services from a monolith).
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and embeddings.
• Proven ability to integrate LLM-backed features into a shipping product (prompt and context engineering, tool calling, structured outputs, evaluations).
• Azure (AKS, App Service, Service Bus, SQL).
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Octopus Deploy or similar).
• US citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Run the teams delivery from start to finish: break down scope, sequence the work, track dependencies and ship releases.
• Write production .NET code every week, covering services, APIs and data access in a mature codebase.
• Build AI capabilities into product features, including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction and tool calling, with evaluations and tracing included.
• Act as the teams reviewer of record for all code, including code written by AI agents.
• Lead a short planning and review cycle built on written plans, stated assumptions and visible open questions.
• Oversee the teams use of AI agent and delivery tooling, setting guardrails and escalating failures that need human judgment.
• Coach mid-level and junior engineers as they work through their own designs.
• Track and manage the teams technical debt, documenting what is intentionally left unfixed.
• Own production quality, latency and cost for the teams features, including postmortems.
• Raise designs that grow beyond the teams scope with the architecture group early.]
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Skills

.NET/C#

Senior pod experience

RAG embeddings

LLM integration

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Azure

AKS

App Service

Service Bus

SQL

GitHub

Octopus Deploy

Job description

Jobot is seeking a Senior .NET Software Engineer in Ashburn, VA, with 7+ years of production software experience and deep .NET/C# expertise. You’ll own delivery for a small pod, write production code weekly, and drive AI capabilities into product features with guardrails and performance goals.

You’ll mentor mid‑level and junior engineers, review code (including AI-written code), manage technical debt, and collaborate with architecture to expand the platform in a fast-moving environment that