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Job Title: .NET Developer with Flutter

Location: Des Moines, IA -Hybrid

Mode of Hire: Contract

Job Description:

Experience in Flutter is mandatory

Though it's a senior software engineer position, we are looking for someone with a lead experience.

Qualifications :

• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field with 9+ years of experience including 2+ as a tech lead
• Expert-level C# / .NET proficiency with a track record of building and delivering production enterprise systems.
• Deep Angular and TypeScript expertise including performance optimization and enterprise-scale module architecture.
• Production Flutter / Dart experience across the full mobile development lifecycle.
• Expert SQL Server skills: schema design, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps mastery: pipeline authoring, release strategies, and environment management.
• Strong prompt engineering skills; experience directing AI tools for complex development tasks and evaluating AI agent output for quality and fit.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Azure resource provisioning, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and resource governance/management (e.g., RBAC, policies, tagging, cost management).
• Leads technical direction for the team; formally mentors all engineers; owns onboarding and capability building; coaches on prompt engineering and responsible AI use.

Primary Technical Skills:

• C# / .NET Development
  • ASP.NET Core
  • .NET Framework / .NET 6+
  • Enterprise application development
  • Microservices architecture
  • REST API development
  • Middleware and backend services
• Angular & TypeScript
  • Angular (enterprise-scale applications)
  • TypeScript
  • Frontend architecture
  • State management
  • Performance optimization
  • Modular UI architecture
  • Responsive web development
• Flutter / Dart
  • Cross-platform mobile app development
  • Android & iOS deployment
  • Mobile application lifecycle management
  • Flutter UI/State management
  • App performance optimization

Database Skills

• Microsoft SQL Server
  • Database schema design
  • Query optimization
  • Stored procedures
  • Performance tuning
  • Indexing strategies
  • High Availability (HA)
  • Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Backup & recovery strategies

DevOps & CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
  • CI/CD pipeline creation
  • Release management
  • Build automation
  • Environment management
  • Git repositories
  • Deployment strategies
  • Infrastructure automation

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Microsoft Azure
  • Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
  • Azure resource provisioning
  • Azure governance
  • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
  • Azure Policies
  • Resource tagging
  • Cost management
  • Cloud infrastructure management

AI & Modern Engineering Skills

• AI-assisted software development
• AI agent evaluation and validation
• AI productivity tooling

Leadership & Team Management

• Technical leadership
• Solution architecture guidance
• Engineering mentorship
• Team onboarding
• Capability development
• Technical coaching
• Code review & quality governance

Job Descriptions:

Senior Software Engineer /Technical Lead:

Software Architechture & Development

• Lead the design and development of complex features across .NET services, Angular, Flutter mobile, and middleware layers, aligned with Software Architect standards; author technical design documentation and present to the Architect for validation.
• Write and review production-grade code; set the engineering quality bar; enforce coding standards, secure coding practices, and integration patterns defined by the Architect.
• Apply advanced prompt engineering to direct AI tools across code generation, debugging, refactoring, and documentation tasks; evaluate AI agent output for architectural fit and take responsibility for all committed code.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Serve as the primary technical mentor for SE1 and SE2 engineers; lead onboarding, provide structured code review feedback, and actively support career growth.
• Lead design review meetings for assigned projects; proactively schedule Architect check-ins to validate scalability and design decisions before committing.
• Facilitate team knowledge-sharing sessions and identify skill gaps; coach engineers on prompt engineering, AI tool usage, and responsible AI practices.

DevOps, CI/CD & Platform Engineering

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines implementing pipeline templates and standards.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure within Azure that follows approved architectural patterns; own observability solutions across team services.
• Enforce deployment standards, branching strategies, and environment promotion gates as established by the Software Architect.

Testing, Quality, & Reliability

• Enforce the testing strategy defined by the Software Architect; lead quality execution across all projects including unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives; track and drive reduction of defect rates, test coverage gaps, and reliability incidents.
• Conduct performance engineering and capacity planning for critical enterprise and data pipeline services.

Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Strategy

• Serve as the primary engineering liaison between the delivery team and the Software Architect; ensure architectural direction is understood and implemented correctly across all engineers.
• Represent the engineering team in discussions with IT leadership, project managers, and business stakeholders; translate technical constraints and delivery status clearly.
• Contribute delivery feasibility insight and ground-level engineering perspective to the Architect's technology evaluations and standards decisions

Continuous Learning

• Maintain deep expertise in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, .NET roadmap, and AI tooling evolution including emerging agent frameworks and prompt engineering best practices.
• Evaluate new AI development tools and agent capabilities; assess fitness for the team's workflow and bring recommendations to the Software Architect
• Represent IT in relevant professional communities; bring external best practices and emerging trends back to the team.