What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Dotnet Developer position at Saransh Inc?
We're looking for a Technical Lead who designs scalable technology solutions and provides hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams. This role bridges architecture strategy and execution, ensuring that system designs are technically sound, aligned with business objectives, and successfully implemented through engineering teams.
The ideal candidate combines deep architectural expertise with strong delivery ownership, guiding teams from solution conception through production deployment and operational stability. You will manage our stable .NET and SQL Server stack while leading the migration toward a scalable, cloud-native microservices architecture. This role requires balancing robust legacy systems with cutting-edge architectural transformation.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end technical solutions aligned with business goals and enterprise architecture standards
- Define system architecture across application services, APIs and integrations, data architecture, cloud infrastructure, and security and scalability requirements
- Produce key architecture artefacts including solution architecture diagrams, integration patterns, data flow diagrams, and non-functional requirement definitions
- Evaluate technology options and recommend appropriate platforms, frameworks, and tools
- Serve as the primary technical leader for assigned programs or product domains
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams
- Make critical design decisions balancing scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and maintainability
- Conduct architecture and design reviews to ensure alignment with standards and best practices
- Provide hands-on technical guidance in complex development scenarios when necessary
- Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices
- Review code and technical deliverables to ensure quality and alignment with architecture
- Assist in diagnosing and resolving complex production issues
- Collaborate with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and Engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Decompose architecture into implementable technical workstreams
- Identify technical risks early and define mitigation strategies
- Support estimation, capacity planning, and sprint execution and delivery
- Lead adoption of modern engineering practices including microservices architecture, API-first design, event-driven systems, DevOps and CI/CD automation, and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
- Ensure systems are secure, resilient, scalable, and highly available
- Partner with key stakeholders including Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure and Cloud teams, Security and Compliance, and QA and Operations
- Communicate technical architecture and decisions effectively to both technical and business stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory standards
- Drive performance optimization and operational excellence
- Lead technical debt management and system modernization initiatives
- Promote architectural best practices and continuous improvement across engineering teams
Requirements
- 8–12 years of software engineering experience
- 3–5 years in technical leadership or solution architecture roles
- Backend: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Web API
- Database: SQL Server, T-SQL, query optimization, ORMs (Entity Framework)
- Architecture: Microservices, RESTful APIs, Event Buses (RabbitMQ / Kafka)
- Frontend: Angular, React, or Vue.js, along with HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript
- Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS or Azure
- Strong expertise in distributed systems architecture, API and integration design, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Microservices and REST/event-driven architecture
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Good communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to balance maintaining legacy systems with driving modernization
- Adaptability to changing priorities and technologies