Senior .NET Engineer (Benelux)

Lateral Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lateral Group is seeking a senior .NET engineer to design and deliver scalable cloud applications on Azure. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring, and a craftsmanship mindset across the full feature lifecycle.

Responsibilities include leading features end-to-end, writing clean, tested code, and driving architectural decisions to simplify complexity while improving security, performance, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production systems on Azure with C#, .NET, and SQL.
• Strong emphasis on clean code, testing, and craftsmanship.
• Ability to own features end-to-end and collaborate with architects, designers, and product roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient cloud applications on Microsoft Azure using C#, .NET, and SQL, meeting defined bars for security, performance, and reliability.
• Write clean, well-tested code grounded in software craftsmanship principles, including comprehensive unit tests and attention to maintainability and reuse.
• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from initial concept and design through deployment, often acting as the lead developer alongside an architect or product designer.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and constructive feedback that builds craft skills.
• Provide technical leadership in architecture and design discussions, advocating for simple, elegant solutions and challenging unnecessary complexity.
• Continuously improve the codebase through refactoring, paying down technical debt, and iterating on quality over time.

Skills

C#

NET

SQL

Software craftsmanship

Unit testing

Mentoring

Architectural judgment

Tools

Azure

Job description

Role overview

A senior .NET engineering role focused on designing and delivering scalable, resilient cloud applications on Azure. The work combines hands‑on coding with technical leadership, mentoring, and a craftsmanship mindset applied across the full feature lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient cloud applications on Microsoft Azure using C#, .NET, and SQL, meeting defined bars for security, performance, and reliability.


• Write clean, well-tested code grounded in software craftsmanship principles, including comprehensive unit tests and attention to maintainability and reuse.


• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from initial concept and design through deployment, often acting as the lead developer alongside an architect or product designer.


• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and constructive feedback that builds craft skills.


• Provide technical leadership in architecture and design discussions, advocating for simple, elegant solutions and challenging unnecessary complexity.


• Continuously improve the codebase through refactoring, paying down technical debt, and iterating on quality over time.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience building production systems with C#, .NET, and SQL on Azure.


• Strong grasp of software craftsmanship, clean code, and testing practices including unit testing.


• Demonstrated ability to own features end-to-end and collaborate with architects, designers, and product roles.


• Track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to a thoughtful, feedback-driven team culture.


• Comfort making pragmatic architectural trade-offs and pushing back on needless complexity.


• Experience working asynchronously in a distributed setup with limited formal structure.

Nice to have

• Background leading significant product features as the primary developer.


• Exposure to iterative refactoring programs that balance new features with debt reduction.