Principal .NET Engineering Coach

At Intellibus, we build mission-critical platforms for some of the world's largest financial institutions.

We're looking for engineers who don't just write code; they elevate the engineering organization around them.

As an Engineering Excellence Coach, you'll work across multiple engineering teams to improve software quality, engineering productivity, development standards, and AI-assisted software delivery.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll mentor engineers, introduce modern engineering practices, leverage AI development tools, and help teams build scalable, maintainable enterprise software.

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Staff-level .NET Engineer passionate about engineering excellence.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys coaching engineers, improving development workflows, introducing AI-powered engineering practices, conducting code reviews, and helping engineering teams continuously improve.

You won't be managing people—you'll be improving engineers.

We are looking for Engineers who can:

• Coach engineering teams on modern .NET engineering practices.
• Drive engineering excellence initiatives across multiple teams.
• Perform architecture and code reviews.
• Improve software quality, maintainability, and reliability.
• Introduce AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or similar tools.

Mentor engineers on:

• Clean Architecture
• SOLID Principles
• Domain-Driven Design
• Design Patterns
• Test-Driven Development
• Refactoring

Improve engineering productivity through automation.

Identify technical debt and modernization opportunities.

Define engineering standards and coding guidelines.

Promote CI/CD best practices.

Drive engineering metrics, including:

• Code Quality
• Developer Productivity
• Deployment Frequency
• Change Failure Rate
• MTTR

Help teams adopt observability and production engineering best practices.

Conduct workshops and technical coaching sessions.

Collaborate with architects and engineering leadership to continuously improve delivery.

Nice to Have

• FinTech or Capital Markets experience.
• Performance Engineering.
• Observability.
• Platform Engineering.
• Developer Experience (DevEx).
• InnerSource.
• SRE practices.
• OpenTelemetry.
• Distributed Systems.
• Architecture Governance.
• Technical Training experience.

We Work Closely With

• C#
• .NET 8 / .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitHub Copilot
• Cursor
• Claude Code
• OpenTelemetry
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• ELK
• DataDog
• Dynatrace
• SonarQube
• xUnit
• NUnit

What Success Looks Like

Within your first six months, you'll have measurably improved engineering quality and developer productivity across multiple teams. Engineers will write cleaner, more maintainable code, leverage AI-assisted development effectively, adopt consistent engineering standards, reduce technical debt, and increase deployment confidence. You'll become a trusted technical mentor who raises the bar for engineering excellence throughout the organization.

Compensation: $75 - $85 / Hour

Our Hiring Process

• 15-minute Introductory Call
• GQ Assessment (multiple choice) & your presentation skills
• Technical Engineering Excellence Interview
• Engineering Leadership Interview (Maybe)
• Executive Interview
• Offer

If you are interested in reaching out to us, please apply, and our team will contact you within the hour.