**Hybrid 4 days weekly in Austin or Southlake**
This onshore role is focused on building ultra-low latency, high-volume, and reliable next-generation trading and financial technology platforms. The applications support several billions of transactions during market hours and require strong engineering discipline across scalability, resiliency, observability, and performance.
As a .NET Developer with AI experience, you will contribute to AI-assisted workflows across the System Development Life Cycle. You will work across .NET engineering, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and Generative AI-assisted delivery to build reliable business solutions in a complex financial domain.
What You Have
Key Responsibilities
" Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and event-driven applications using .NET, Kafka, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
" Build and modernize high-volume services, APIs, and distributed application capabilities that support reliable transaction processing and business-critical workflows.
" Partner with architects, product owners, developers, and adjacent technology teams to convert business capabilities into high-quality technical solutions.
" Use GenAI coding assistants to accelerate implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation while maintaining ownership for correctness and quality.
" Use agentic workflows, prompt engineering, custom instructions, and spec-driven development practices to improve individual and team productivity.
" Strengthen engineering quality through automated testing, disciplined code reviews, performance analysis, observability, resiliency practices, and production readiness.
" Support modernization initiatives by moving legacy capabilities toward distributed .NET services, cloud-native platforms, event-driven architecture, and modern data stores.
" Collaborate with engineers in a team-oriented environment and help adopt repeatable, responsible AI-assisted development practices.
Required Qualifications
" Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or 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, with knowledge of distributed systems, stream processing, performance optimization, and cloud-native architectures.
" Working experience with IBM MQ, Kafka, Splunk, JSON/XML, caching, performance analysis and profiling, Twelve-Factor App methodology, resiliency patterns, and observability patterns.
" Experience owning technical components or features and collaborating effectively within a software delivery team.
" 4+ years of experience building and deploying cloud-native applications using GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD practices.
" Experience with cloud platforms and deployment environments such as PCF, AWS, or GCP.
" 2+ years of experience working with databases such as MongoDB, Aerospike, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational and NoSQL platforms.
" Experience contributing to IT transformation or system modernization initiatives involving legacy platforms, distributed .NET applications, or modern data platforms.
" 1+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML implementation, production deployment, or AI-assisted engineering practices.
" Hands-on experience or practical exposure to Large Language Models such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, PaLM, or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
" Demonstrated hands-on experience using GenAI coding assistants across SDLC workflows, including implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation.
" Practical familiarity with tools such as GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Code in IDE or CLI-based workflows, with the ability to apply AI assistance to reduce context switching and accelerate delivery beyond code generation.
" Working knowledge of agentic workflows, spec-driven development, custom instructions, and prompt engineering, with the ability to apply effective AI-assisted development practices.
" Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment.
" Experience with the Atlassian tool stack, including Jira and Confluence.
" Domain / Industry: Understands broker-dealer domain capabilities and operations, with preferred experience in the financial services industry.
" Communication: Communicates clearly and effectively, with proven ability to collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in a team-oriented environment.
" Execution Focus: Brings a collaborative mindset and bias for action, effectively partnering with developers, architects, and adjacent teams to drive outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
" Master s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related degree, or equivalent practical experience.
" Experience in Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, QA automation, and quality engineering mindset and behaviors.
" Proficient in creating architecture diagrams, design documentation, functional and technical specifications, automated test process documentation, runbooks, and production/test environment documentation.
" Experience with performance engineering, reliability testing, resiliency validation, and operational readiness for high-volume distributed platforms.
" Exposure to AI-assisted SDLC transformation initiatives, internal developer productivity programs, or enterprise AI implementation patterns.
" Experience supporting or mentoring peers on .NET engineering practices, cloud-native implementation, distributed systems, or responsible AI-assisted software delivery.
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.