Lead Associate - .NET

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality .NET applications and services aligned to agreed architecture and squad delivery priorities.
• Implement APIs, domain services, background workers, and integration components using clean architecture principles.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure C# code following SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design concepts, design patterns, and agreed engineering standards.
• Develop data access layers, persistence strategies, and SQL Server / Entity Framework solutions that support performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Build containerised and event-driven components where appropriate, supporting scalable and resilient platform capabilities.

• Create and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, contract, and service layers, applying TDD where appropriate.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, build quality gates, automated deployment, environment configuration, and release readiness.
• Support observability, resilience, logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning for back-end applications and services.
• Apply secure coding practices across APIs, authentication, authorisation, data handling, dependency management, and service-to-service communication.

• Act as a senior engineer within the squad, modelling good engineering discipline, ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving.
• Support and mentor junior and mid-level developers through code reviews, pairing, design discussion, and constructive technical guidance.
• Contribute to shared back-end standards, templates, service patterns, and clean architecture practices.
• Support recruitment and onboarding activities where back-end engineering input is required.

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex back-end issues affecting delivery, quality, performance, integration, or production stability.
• Work with Architects, Lead Engineers, Front End Engineers, QA, and Platform Engineers to resolve cross-cutting technical problems.
• Contribute to improvements in shared back-end libraries, frameworks, and platform components where required.

• Work closely with Architects, Product Owners, Platform Engineers, Front End Engineers, and QA teams to ensure technical solutions meet business and user needs.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, contributing to planning, refinement, retrospectives, technical discovery, and continuous improvement.

• Identify practical opportunities to improve developer experience, service quality, maintainability, resilience, and delivery effectiveness.
• Keep up to date with relevant .NET, Cloud technologies, clean architecture, testing, and integration developments.
• Contribute to continuous learning and engineering improvement across the squad and wider engineering community.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent capability demonstrated through delivery experience.
• Strong relevant experience delivering modern .NET services, APIs, and back-end applications in commercial or enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

• C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services, and modern back-end engineering patterns.
• Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design, design patterns, and maintainable service boundaries.
• REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication, authorisation, API versioning, and secure integration patterns.
• SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, data modelling, query optimisation, and transactional consistency.
• Microservices, containerised applications, event-driven architecture, messaging, and integration patterns.
• Azure services, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling, and DevOps practices.
• Automated testing including TDD, unit, integration, contract, and performance testing approaches.

• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent capability demonstrated through delivery experience.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and back-end service development.
• Good understanding of clean architecture, SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design concepts, and maintainable service design.
• Experience designing and delivering REST APIs, service components, and integration patterns.
• Strong SQL Server and Entity Framework Core capability.
• Automated test practices across unit, integration, and contract testing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, Azure services, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Secure coding practices and familiarity with OWASP principles.