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Summary

Under the general direction of the Director, AI Platforms and Solutions Delivery, the Full-Stack .NET Developer will help advance Cencora's digital transformation by designing, building, and operating modern web applications and services on the Microsoft stack. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions using .NET and contemporary front-end frameworks, with exposure to integrating AI and GenAI capabilities (e.g., LLM-powered features, search, summarization, and workflow automation) into business applications.

The incumbent partners with product managers, architects, UX, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into production-ready software. The role supports the ongoing development of internal platforms and digital products, emphasizing API-first design, DevOps practices, high-quality engineering, and responsible use of AI within enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack .NET applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, modern UI technologies (React, Angular, or Blazor), and responsive design principles.
• Develop scalable backend services, integration layers, and data access patterns (SQL/ORM) optimized for performance and maintainability.
• Integrate AI capabilities into applications:
  • Call Azure OpenAI, GPT models, and other LLM endpoints via backend APIs.
  • Implement prompt engineering, chain-of-thought, and advanced prompting techniques.
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using vector search (Azure AI Search, PostgreSQL pgvector, etc.).
  • Develop AI-powered features such as intelligent search, summarization, content generation, chat assistants, and workflow automation.
• Create and maintain Python scripts (as advantageous) for data processing, embedding generation, LLM evaluation, or prototyping AI solutions.
• Collaborate with AI platform teams to integrate Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Functions, etc.).
• Implement observability, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks for AI components (latency, quality, cost, safety).
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, and responsible AI guidelines (bias detection, hallucination mitigation, compliance).
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and incident management.

Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience with strong emphasis on .NET ecosystem (C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, etc.).
• Solid experience building REST APIs, modern web UIs, and cloud-native applications on Azure.
• Strong plus: Hands-on experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or RAG patterns.
• Advantageous (not mandatory): Exposure to Python for AI-related tasks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, pandas, embedding models, etc.).
• Experience with Azure AI services, vector databases, or semantic search is highly valued.

• Knowledge of responsible AI practices and MLOps concepts is a plus.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements

• Passion for building high-quality, maintainable software with strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, pragmatic problem-solver who can work effectively amid evolving requirements.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Solid understanding of secure software development practices (authentication/authorization, secrets management, OWASP fundamentals).
• Ability to research, evaluate, and apply new technologies responsibly, including AI capabilities, where they add measurable business value.
• Thrives in collaborative environments, resolves conflicting approaches constructively, and contributes to a healthy engineering culture.

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned