We are seeking an experienced .NET and Azure Architect for a modernization project. In this role, youll work on designing, developing, and delivering critical product features in a fast-paced, agile environment. Youll also serve as a technical leader-guiding junior developers, ensuring best practices, and helping the team overcome obstacles to maintain development velocity. This position requires deep expertise in full-stack .NET development, modern JavaScript frameworks, secure API design, and Azure cloud deployments. If you enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring others, and building scalable software from the ground up. **What Youll Do** - Design both application architecture (.NET/C# backend and frontend features) and infrastructure (Azure) architecture that best fit the existing teams capabilities and strengths. - Create both application and infrastructure diagrams and documentation as needed. - Educate team members (both development and infrastructure) on modern application and infrastructure topics as needed. - Lead application development efforts and reviews as needed. - Guide and mentor junior developers on coding best practices and design patterns. - Evaluate third-party libraries, tools, and frameworks for integration. - Implement and monitor application performance, scalability, and security. - Collaborate with the other senior members of the team to ensure timely and accurate delivery of features. - Help to improve engineering processes and application performance through thoughtful enhancements. - Support releases and deployments, including production troubleshooting and alerting. **What Were Looking For** **Required Skills & Experience** - 8+ years of full-stack software development experience. - Expert-level proficiency with .NET, C#, and SQL Server. - Strong frontend experience using Angular, Blazor, React, or comparable modern JS frameworks. - Proven ability to design and secure RESTful APIs (JWT, OAuth). - Solid knowledge of Azure and how to choose the right service or service configuration for the challenge and desired level of cost at hand. - Experience integrating with third-party APIs and using message queues. - Experience with event sourcing and other distributed architecture concepts to leverage cloud resources at scale. - Background in application security, performance tuning, and scalability. - Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodologies. - Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentorship skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Prior experience with modernization projects. - Azure certifications. **Why Join Us?** - Collaborate with a talented, experienced team of developers and technical leaders. - Enjoy flexibility with a remote-friendly environment. - Influence architectural decisions and product direction. **Whats In It for You?** Depending on the position and the candidates location, not all roles are available for W-2 employment. In some cases, we may consider engagement through a 1099 contractor arrangement. We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share our thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletter. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: https://us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6a3b[redacted]f7dab1adb3a8b&id=f0193ac93e. Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit www.solutionstreet.comor check out our Face page https://www.facebook.com/solutionstreet for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!