.net Developer

This is an on-site role in Austin or Southlake.

Pay Range: 60/hr - $67/hr

Aquent, a leading talent solutions company, is proud to partner with Kelly OCG to identify top-tier talent for a prestigious client in the financial services industry. This is an unparalleled opportunity to join a team that is building ultra-low latency, high-volume, and reliable next-generation trading and financial technology platforms that process billions of transactions daily. As a pivotal contributor, you will leverage your expertise in .NET and AI to shape the future of financial technology, driving innovation and delivering robust solutions that have a direct impact on critical market operations.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate individual to contribute to AI-assisted workflows across the System Development Life Cycle. This role offers the chance to work at the forefront of technology, integrating .NET engineering, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and Generative AI-assisted delivery. You will be instrumental in building reliable business solutions within a complex financial domain, directly influencing the performance and resilience of platforms supporting global financial markets.

Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and event-driven applications using .NET, Kafka, and cloud-native architecture patterns, directly impacting the robustness of critical financial systems.
• Build and modernize high-volume services, APIs, and distributed application capabilities that ensure reliable transaction processing and support business-critical workflows for billions of daily transactions.
• Partner closely with architects, product owners, developers, and adjacent technology teams to translate complex business requirements into high-quality technical solutions that drive the firm's strategic objectives.
• Utilize cutting-edge GenAI coding assistants to significantly accelerate implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation, while maintaining absolute ownership for correctness and quality.
• Apply agentic workflows, prompt engineering, custom instructions, and spec-driven development practices to continuously improve individual and team productivity, fostering an innovative development environment.
• Strengthen engineering quality through rigorous automated testing, disciplined code reviews, performance analysis, observability, resiliency practices, and meticulous production readiness, ensuring unparalleled system reliability.
• Support critical modernization initiatives by migrating legacy capabilities toward distributed .NET services, cloud-native platforms, event-driven architecture, and modern data stores, transforming the technological landscape.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers in a team-oriented environment, actively contributing to the adoption of repeatable and responsible AI-assisted development practices across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing scalable .NET, cloud-based, or web services applications that support high-volume transactions in highly available environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and event-driven applications using .NET and Kafka, coupled with deep knowledge of distributed systems, stream processing, performance optimization, and cloud-native architectures.
• Working experience with IBM MQ, Kafka, Splunk, JSON/XML, caching, performance analysis and profiling, Twelve-Factor App methodology, resiliency patterns, and observability patterns.
• Demonstrated experience owning technical components or features and collaborating effectively within a software delivery team.
• 4+ years of experience building and deploying cloud-native applications using GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms and deployment environments such as PCF, AWS, or GCP.
• 2+ years of experience working with databases such as MongoDB, Aerospike, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational and NoSQL platforms.
• Experience contributing to IT transformation or system modernization initiatives involving legacy platforms, distributed .NET applications, or modern data platforms.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML implementation, production deployment, or AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience or practical exposure to Large Language Models such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, PaLM, or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience using GenAI coding assistants across SDLC workflows, including implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Practical familiarity with tools such as GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Code in IDE or CLI-based workflows, with the ability to apply AI assistance to reduce context switching and accelerate delivery beyond code generation.
• Working knowledge of agentic workflows, spec-driven development, custom instructions, and prompt engineering, with the ability to apply effective AI-assisted development practices.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment.
• Experience with the Atlassian tool stack, including Jira and Confluence.
• Understands broker-dealer domain capabilities and operations, with preferred experience in the financial services industry.
• Communicates clearly and effectively, with proven ability to collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in a team-oriented environment.
• Brings a collaborative mindset and bias for action, effectively partnering with developers, architects, and adjacent teams to drive outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, QA automation, and a quality engineering mindset and behaviors.
• Proficient in creating architecture diagrams, design documentation, functional and technical specifications, automated test process documentation, runbooks, and production/test environment documentation.
• Experience with performance engineering, reliability testing, resiliency validation, and operational readiness for high-volume distributed platforms.
• Exposure to AI-assisted SDLC transformation initiatives, internal developer productivity programs, or enterprise AI implementation patterns.
• Experience supporting or mentoring peers on .NET engineering practices, cloud-native implementation, distributed systems, or responsible AI-assisted software delivery.

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