Senior .NET AI Developer

Job Title: Senior .NET AI Developer

Duration (Contract): 6 Months

Client Location: Austin, TX

Location Preference: Onsite

Job Description:

As a Senior .NET AI Developer, you will lead the development of cloud-native, event-driven applications while driving AI-assisted software engineering practices across the SDLC. You will leverage .NET, Kafka, cloud technologies, and Generative AI tools to build scalable, resilient, and intelligent solutions for high-volume enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable .NET-based, event-driven applications and services.
• Build and modernize APIs, microservices, and distributed application platforms.
• Develop cloud-native solutions using containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and engineering teams to deliver business solutions.
• Leverage GenAI tools to accelerate development, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Establish AI-assisted development standards, workflows, and engineering best practices.
• Drive application quality through code reviews, automated testing, and performance optimization.
• Support modernization initiatives from legacy systems to distributed cloud-native architectures.
• Mentor developers on .NET engineering, distributed systems, and AI-enabled development practices.
• Ensure application reliability, observability, resiliency, and production readiness.

Required Skills, Experiences, Education, and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience developing .NET, cloud-based, and web services applications in high-availability environments.
• Strong expertise with .NET, Kafka, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native design.
• 6+ years of experience with Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or PCF.
• Hands-on experience with IBM MQ, Kafka, Splunk, JSON/XML, caching, observability, and performance tuning.
• Experience with MongoDB, Aerospike, PostgreSQL, or similar relational and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience using GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, GPT, Gemini, or similar platforms.
• 2+ years of experience with AI/ML implementations, AI-assisted engineering practices, or production AI solutions.
• Strong leadership, communication, Agile, Jira/Confluence, system modernization, and financial services experience preferred.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $60.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.