.net Developer [AQ-19510]

About the role

Aquent is proud to partner with a prestigious leader in the financial services industry, an organization that stands at the forefront of innovation. This company is dedicated to pioneering ultra-low latency, high-volume, and exceptionally reliable next-generation trading and financial technology platforms. They are actively building systems that process billions of transactions daily, directly shaping the future of financial technology and delivering robust solutions that drive critical market operations across the globe. Are you ready to revolutionize global financial markets? We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate individual to join a dynamic team dedicated to building the future of financial technology. This is an unparalleled chance to work at the cutting edge of innovation, integrating advanced .NET engineering, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and Generative AI-assisted delivery. As a pivotal contributor, you will build resilient business solutions within a complex financial domain, directly influencing the performance and stability of platforms that underpin global financial markets. Your work will empower billions of daily transactions and set new industry standards for speed and reliability, making a tangible impact on the industry.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and event-driven applications utilizing .NET, Kafka, and cloud-native architecture patterns, directly enhancing the robustness of critical financial systems.
• Build and modernize high-volume services, APIs, and distributed application capabilities to ensure reliable transaction processing and support business-critical workflows for billions of daily transactions.
• Collaborate closely with architects, product owners, developers, and adjacent technology teams to translate complex business requirements into high-quality technical solutions that advance strategic objectives.
• Leverage cutting-edge GenAI coding assistants to significantly accelerate implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation, while maintaining absolute ownership for correctness and quality.
• Apply agentic workflows, prompt engineering, custom instructions, and spec-driven development practices to continuously enhance individual and team productivity, fostering an innovative development environment.
• Strengthen engineering quality through rigorous automated testing, disciplined code reviews, performance analysis, observability, resiliency practices, and meticulous production readiness, ensuring unparalleled system reliability.
• Support critical modernization initiatives by migrating legacy capabilities toward distributed .NET services, cloud-native platforms, event-driven architecture, and modern data stores, transforming the technological landscape.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers in a team-oriented environment, actively contributing to the adoption of repeatable and responsible AI-assisted development practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing scalable .NET, cloud-based, or web services applications that support high-volume transactions in highly available environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and event-driven applications using .NET and Kafka, coupled with deep