C# / .NET Lead Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a hands-on C#/.NET Lead who can design, build, and ship cloud-native systems, lead a squad of engineers, and partner directly with Kickdrum leadership and customer teams. You'll move fast, own outcomes, and set a high technical bar across backend, cloud, data, and modern TypeScript frontends.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of 3–6 engineers to deliver modern, cloud-native software from discovery to production. Review and approve estimates, designs, code, and test plans
• Translate business requirements into clear technical designs, tasks, and release plans; drive sprint execution and remove blockers
• Design and evolve distributed architectures on Azure or AWS: microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, background workers
• Build services in C# / ASP.NET Core (REST/gRPC), use .NET Aspire and Dapr building blocks where appropriate; use EF Core for data access
• Architect eventing and integration with Azure Event Hubs/Service Bus, Kafka, or SQS/SNS; select and justify eventual vs immediate consistency strategies

What you need

• 8–12 yrs of experience
• C#
• .NET
• SQL
• TypeScript
• AWS
• Redis
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Git
• Next.js
• OWASP
• DynamoDB
• Webpack
• MongoDB