Software Engineer III – Cloud-Native Applications (Enterprise Environment) Location: Hybrid/Onsite (Las Vegas, NV or Draper Utah)
Employment Type: Contract to Hire
Environment: Large-scale, cloud-native Azure application ecosystem
Position Summary The Software Engineer III is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, and leading the delivery of complex, scalable, and cloud-native web applications. This role serves as a subject matter expert across modern software engineering practices, providing mentorship, architectural input, and hands-on development to ensure the creation of high-performing, secure, and maintainable software. This engineer leads the full lifecycle—from requirements analysis through architecture, development, deployment, and optimization—while ensuring best-in-class user experiences, robust system performance, and strong adherence to security and data privacy standards.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop Azure-based, cloud-native applications using ASP.NET Core, React, and modern architectural patterns including microservices, micro frontends, serverless functions, and containerized workloads.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering team, guiding implementation of scalable distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Build and maintain REST APIs within an Event-Driven Microservices Architecture, ensuring predictable and resilient communications across internal and third-party integrations.
Create and review development documentation such as sequence diagrams, workflow diagrams, and API specifications to support clarity and long-term maintainability.
Identify and remediate technical debt, optimizing existing systems for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines using YAML, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions to continually improve automation and deployment processes.
Perform code reviews to enforce adherence to coding, architectural, and security standards.
Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
Ensure all software meets security, compliance, and operational requirements while supporting enterprise growth and modernization initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
High School Diploma/GED required; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
7+ years of experience delivering enterprise web applications using ASP.NET / C# and responsive web technologies.
Expertise across the Azure development ecosystem, including distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
Strong development proficiency with React, modern JavaScript, Node.js, and tooling such as Webpack, Babel, ES6, Prettier, and linting frameworks.
Experience with Azure application security, containerization, and modern hosting patterns.
Advanced knowledge of Azure services including Azure Functions, AKS, Service Bus, Stream Analytics, Logic Apps, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB.
Understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and distributed systems concepts.
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, pipelines, CI/CD, feature flags, and Git-based development workflows.
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling is a plus.
Ability to work occasional evenings/weekends and travel periodically as needed.