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# Azure Senior AppDev Engineer

- **Company:** Ascend Technologies
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Log Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Software Architecture, Query Optimization, Distributed Caching, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Datadog, Enterprise Software Applications, Performance Testing, ReactJS, Git, Vue.js, AngularJS, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Api Management, Serverless Computing, Key Vault, Web Api
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** http://teamascend.applytojob.com/apply/jobs/details/tp30uuqrZg

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

 * 7+ years professional software engineering experience in enterprise application development.

 * Strong hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 6-8, and Web API development.

 * Experience delivering Azure-hosted applications using Azure App Services and Azure SQL (or equivalent).

 * Strong experience with EF Core (or comparable ORM) and SQL Server fundamentals (indexes, query optimization).

 * Experience using Azure DevOps (or similar) with Git branching, pull requests, and CI/CD concepts.

 * Working knowledge of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization implementation patterns.

 * Demonstrated ability to estimate and deliver work independently with minimal supervision.

PREFERRED SKILLS, EDUCATION, AND EXPERIENCE

 * Experience with Azure Functions, API Management, App Configuration/Key Vault, distributed caching, or messaging.

 * Experience with performance testing and tuning across API + database layers.

 * Experience with observability tooling (App Insights, Log Analytics, dashboards, alerting).

 * Front-end modernization experience using React/Vue/Angular.

 * Participation in cloud migration/modernization programs involving multi-application portfolios.

## Description

The Senior AppDev Engineer is a highly autonomous engineering contributor responsible for delivering complex application features and modernization components across the client platform. This role owns technical implementation of services, APIs, and modernization refactoring initiatives that directly support the transition from legacy monolithic systems to modular, Azure-hosted solutions.

The Senior AppDev Engineer plays a critical role in elevating engineering quality, supporting DevOps maturity, and contributing to architectural discussions. This position bridges strategic modernization objectives with detailed technical execution, ensuring new and refactored components are secure, scalable, observable, and production-ready.

In addition to delivery responsibility, this role helps elevate team capability by mentoring engineers, participating in code reviews, and reinforcing modernization and cloud-native development standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 * Design and implement .NET 8+ features and services aligned to program architecture standards.

 * Lead refactoring of legacy modules into modern layered/service-oriented patterns.

 * Build secure, maintainable REST APIs and integration components.

 * Implement data access modernization using EF Core and optimized SQL design patterns.

 * Participate in design reviews and provide peer code reviews to enforce engineering standards.

 * Contribute to CI/CD maturity through pipeline improvements, deployment reliability, and release readiness practices.

 * Collaborate with QA to ensure testability, defect prevention, and regression protection.

 * Support resiliency/DR improvements through implementation and validation support activities.

 * Provide coaching and guidance to AppDev Engineers; help raise team capability and consistency.

 * Develop or contribute to the technical backlog, epics and user stories in conjunction with the architect. May be asks to perform the technical product owner role.

 * Other responsibilities as assigned by management.