Senior .NET Platform Coach

Job Summary

Intellibus is seeking a Senior .NET Platform Coach to join our team of experts who build mission-critical platforms for some of the world's largest financial institutions. This is not a traditional engineering role; it is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on elevating the engineering organization around you. You will work across multiple teams to improve software quality, engineering productivity, development standards, and AI-assisted software delivery. You will coach engineers, introduce modern practices, leverage AI development tools, and help teams build scalable, maintainable enterprise software. If you are passionate about engineering excellence and enjoy mentoring others, this contract role offers the flexibility of working from anywhere while having a significant impact on how world-class software is built.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach engineering teams on modern .NET engineering practices, including Clean Architecture, SOLID Principles, Domain-Driven Design, Design Patterns, Test-Driven Development, and Refactoring.
• Drive engineering excellence initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring consistent adoption of best practices.
• Perform architecture and code reviews to identify improvements in software quality, maintainability, and reliability.
• Introduce AI-assisted development using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or similar technologies.
• Mentor engineers on advanced software design principles and help them write cleaner, more maintainable code.
• Improve engineering productivity through automation, identifying technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Define engineering standards and coding guidelines to be adopted across the organization.
• Promote CI/CD best practices using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and other tools.
• Drive engineering metrics including code quality, developer productivity, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Help teams adopt observability and production engineering best practices using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, and Dynatrace.
• Conduct workshops and technical coaching sessions to upskill engineering teams.
• Collaborate with architects and engineering leadership to continuously improve delivery processes.

Role Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in a staff-level or senior technical leadership role.
• Extensive experience with C#, .NET 8 / .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, and Microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
• Experience with observability tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, or Dynatrace.
• Excellent mentoring and coaching skills, with a passion for helping engineers grow.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to conduct technical workshops.

Skills Inventory

• Essential: C#, .NET 8 / .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, Microservices, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
• Essential: AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf).
• Essential: Clean Architecture, SOLID Principles, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, Refactoring.
• Essential: CI/CD, Code Quality, Developer Productivity, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, MTTR.
• Preferred: FinTech or Capital Markets experience, Performance Engineering, Observability, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DevEx), InnerSource, SRE practices, Distributed Systems, Architecture Governance, Technical Training experience.
• Preferred: Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, Dynatrace, SonarQube, xUnit, NUnit.

Salary & Compensation Estimation

The compensation for this contract role is between $75 and $85 per hour, which translates to an annual equivalent of approximately $156,000 to $176,800 based on a standard 40-hour work week and 52 weeks per year. This rate is competitive for a staff-level coaching role that requires deep technical expertise and the ability to influence multiple teams. As a contractor, you will have the flexibility of remote work and the opportunity to impact high-stakes financial platforms.