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Request Technology, LLC lists this Lead C#/.NET/Azure Software Engineer opportunity in chicago, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Lead Software Engineer - C# .NET / Azure
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
HYBRID 3 DAYS ONSITE
Looking for candidates with strong core coding fundamentals who can also effectively leverage Claude Code as part of their development workflow.
Ideal Candidate
8+ years of software engineering experience (more is better).
Current or recent Lead Software Engineer (preferred) or strong Senior Engineer with leadership responsibilities.
2–3+ years of technical leadership experience.
Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, technical planning, architecture, and proof-of-concepts (POCs).
Full stack engineers only.
Bachelor's degree preferred but not required, must have equivalent experience.
Required Technical Skills
Must have built production applications in Azure from the ground up.
System design and cloud architecture.
Microservices and distributed applications.
CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
Lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure, with ownership from architecture through production support.
Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, and security, and hold the team to them through active code authorship and thorough code review.
Make architectural decisions for new features and systems, weighing trade-offs and ensuring solutions are maintainable, observable, and built to scale.
Lead the integration of AI and GenAI capabilities into Firm applications, including LLM-powered features, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic search, and agentic workflows.
Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure on CI/CD pipelines, container platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps), and cloud deployment patterns.
Required:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services used in application development (e.g., Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps/AKS, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure OpenAI Service).
Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB).
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals: system design, design patterns, testing strategy, and distributed systems.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), version control (Git), and Agile development practices.
Experience building or integrating AI and GenAI features in production, such as LLM APIs (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude), RAG pipelines, vector search, semantic ranking, or agentic workflows.
Experience with .NET Aspire for building and orchestrating cloud-native .NET applications.
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).
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Worksite address
chicago, IL, 60290, US
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