Lead .NET Backend Engineer

Engagement Type: Contractor (100% Remote, Latin America)

About CodeRoad

CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.

Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.

Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?

• High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure: We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.

• Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity: Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.

• Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery: We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.

• High-Trust Employee Experience: You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Direction & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, robust enterprise services using .NET Core / ASP.NET, enforcing modern OOP paradigms and SOLID principles across the codebase.

• Lead and Mentor Engineering Talent: Provide hands-on technical guidance, conduct comprehensive peer code reviews, and run targeted 1-on-1s to elevate team execution, code quality, and engineering velocity.

• Oversee Cloud Platform Engineering: Direct cloud infrastructure patterns and deployments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring high availability, security, observability, and containerized deployment standards.

• Optimize Data Layers & Relational Models: Architect and optimize complex SQL database schemas, queries, and indexing strategies to guarantee high throughput and data integrity under heavy traffic.

• Partner with Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Interface directly with U.S.-based product managers, delivery leads, and solution architects to translate complex business needs into actionable technical roadmaps and clear sprint deliverables.

• Maintain Delivery Accountability: Monitor team sprint commitments, remove technical roadblocks, establish definition-of-done criteria, and guarantee that engineering deliverables consistently meet enterprise production standards.

What You Bring

• Extensive .NET Mastery: 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in C#, .NET Core / ASP.NET, building performant microservices and RESTful APIs.

• Proven Technical Leadership: 2+ years of track record leading engineering squads, steering architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and maintaining high team performance.

• Robust Foundational Engineering: Deep command of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and architectural design patterns.

• Cloud & Data Systems Proficiency: Hands-on experience engineering and deploying workloads on GCP (e.g., Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub) alongside advanced schema design and query tuning in relational SQL databases.

• Ownership Mindset & Soft Skills: Proactive problem solver with emotional intelligence, high autonomy, strong accountability, and the ability to navigate ambiguous engineering challenges.

• Exceptional Communication: Full professional English fluency (C1+ verbal and written) with proven experience collaborating directly with North American stakeholders and distributed technical teams.

What You’ll Love

• USA Contractor / 100% Remote

• Competitive Pay (USD)

• Holidays Off & Paid Time Off

• Health insurance assistance program

• Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.

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