Lead AppDev Engineer, Azure

Ascend Technologies

Lead AppDev Engineer driving modernization strategies in Azure application development for Ascend Technologies. Overseeing engineering execution and mentoring engineering teams for enterprise solutions.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $85,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ASP.NETAzureCloud.NETSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead day-to-day engineering execution across modernization and operations workstreams, ensuring alignment to program architecture standards.
Translate modernization blueprints into sprint-level engineering designs, tasks, and deliverables.
Lead refactoring of legacy applications into .NET 8+ patterns, including modularization and API-first modernization.
Establish and enforce engineering best practices: clean code, code reviews, branching strategy, and release readiness controls.
Drive modernization of data access patterns (EF Core adoption, stored procedure rationalization, query optimization) in collaboration with DBA.
Partner with the Azure AppDev Systems Engineer to ensure environment readiness, deployment consistency, monitoring, and cost optimization.
Collaborate with QA to ensure automated testing coverage, regression protection, and quality gates in CI/CD.
Contribute to resiliency and disaster recovery enhancements (design input, implementation support, validation readiness).
Mentor Senior AppDev Engineers and AppDev Engineers; provide coaching, feedback, and technical guidance.
Identify technical risks and technical debt; propose and execute mitigation plans.
Ensure resiliency, observability, and DR patterns are implemented consistently.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
10+ years of enterprise application engineering experience, including modernization/refactoring initiatives.
Deep hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 6–8, and REST API development.
Strong experience with Azure PaaS application hosting (e.g., App Services) and cloud-native delivery practices.
Strong experience with SQL Server and modern data access patterns (EF Core/ORM), performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred) and Git-based workflows.
Experience leading engineering teams through delivery, including code reviews, estimation support, and execution oversight.
Strong understanding of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization concepts (OAuth/OIDC, Azure AD concepts).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#ASP.NET Core.NET 6.NET 8REST API developmentSQL ServerEF CoreCI/CD pipelinesperformance tuningsecure coding practices

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcoachingtechnical guidancecollaborationcommunicationrisk identificationproblem-solvingfeedbackexecution oversight