Digital Factory - Backend Software Engineer (.NET) - Senior Associate
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
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Role Overview
The Software Engineer (.NET) is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and maintainable web applications using the .NET ecosystem. Acting as a key contributor within agile delivery teams, the role collaborates closely with business stakeholders, delivery leads, architecture, UX, backend, frontend, data, and platform teams to translate functional needs into reliable and high-quality software increments.
At Senior Associate level, the role independently owns complex .NET features and contributes to technical decisions, quality and production reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Own complex application features from refinement through deployment and support, coordinating dependencies and resolving technical issues independently.
- Contribute actively to architecture decisions, code reviews, reusable components, performance improvements and the coaching of less-experienced engineers.
Application Development & Delivery
- Design, develop, and implement .NET-based solutions, including UI components, application flows, and reusable services.
- Contribute to end-to-end application delivery across build, run, support, and maintenance activities.
- Deliver working software iteratively by implementing features, fixing bugs, closing development tickets, and supporting sprint commitments.
Architecture, Quality & Engineering Practice
- Apply software engineering principles to ensure scalability, maintainability, reliability, and long-term technical quality.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making across the application lifecycle.
- Conduct and participate in code reviews to ensure readability, maintainability, consistency, and alignment with standards.
Performance, Reliability & Operations
- Optimize backend performance and scalability across .NET applications.
- Design resilient application behavior using patterns such as caching, retries, idempotency, and appropriate error handling.
- Instrument applications with logging, metrics, monitoring, and diagnostics to support operational reliability.
Security, Compliance & Collaboration
- Apply secure coding practices across backend and data interaction layers.
- Support authentication, authorization, secrets management, secure data handling, and dependency management practices.
- Follow enterprise security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
What Success in this Role Will Look Like
- Demonstrates independent ownership of complex features, strong technical judgement and measurable improvement in code quality and reliability.
- Success in this role is evaluated based on the ability to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes across engineering execution, collaboration, technical quality, operational reliability, and enterprise delivery expectations, including:
- Consistent delivery of working software within sprint commitments and project priorities.
- High-quality, readable, maintainable, and reusable .NET code.
- Work effectively as part of a team, contributing to collective success while remaining open to feedback and coaching from more experienced colleagues.
- Effective participation in code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement activities.
- Reliable contribution to issue resolution, feature implementation, production support, and root cause analysis.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Professional experience building solutions within the .NET ecosystem.
- Proficiency in C#, ASP.NET Core and EF Core.
- Exposure to Azure services, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring practices.
- Experience working in agile delivery environments with sprint-based execution and delivery commitments.
- Ability to participate in code reviews, follow development standards, and contribute consistently to team delivery.
- Understanding of application performance, troubleshooting, testing, production support, and maintainability practices.
- Awareness of secure development practices, privacy requirements, and enterprise compliance expectations.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, with the ability to communicate effectively in a professional environment.
- 4+ Years of experience are required
Preferred Experience
- Familiarity with API consumption patterns and integration with backend services such as REST APIs.
- Experience with refactoring, modernization, maintainability, and long-term technical quality improvements.
- Experience in integration testing.
- Knowledge of .NET Aspire.
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