Senior .NET Software Engineer

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

Senior .NET Software Engineer

$180000 - $200000 per year | Ashburn, VA | Remote | Permanent

Senior .NET Software Engineer, $180,000 to $200,000 per year, Mostly Hands-On Coding, LLM and Agentic Features in Production

A bit about us:

We are a technology company that helps state and local governments replace paper-based processes with AI-driven digital workflows. Our work centers on modernizing how public agencies handle their everyday operations, turning manual, paper-heavy steps into digital systems. Our platform is built on .NET and is currently moving toward a microservices architecture, and we are adding LLM and agentic capabilities to products already in production.

Why join us?

• Competitive compensation: $180,000 to $200,000 per year
• 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with significant employer contributions for employees and dependents, plus company-sponsored life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• 11 paid holidays and flexible time off
• Mostly hands‑on coding with a light coordination load
• Technical ownership of a delivery pod's releases, plus coaching mid-level and junior engineers
• Monthly stipend for home office expenses

Job Details

This Senior .NET engineer role leads delivery for a small engineering pod while spending most of the week writing production code. You'll build AI capabilities into product features, review all of the team's code, and coach mid-level and junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run the team's 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 team's 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 team's 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 team's technical debt, documenting what is intentionally left unfixed
• Own production quality, latency and cost for the team's features, including postmortems
• Raise designs that grow beyond the team's scope with the architecture group early

Needed:

• Minimum 7 years of experience building and shipping production software
• Strong background in .NET and C# development (ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, async patterns, performance and profiling)
• 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

Nice to have:

• Experience in government, healthcare or another regulated environment

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