Backend.Net DeveloperLocation: Fremont, CA 5 days onsite per week Mon to Fri Duration: 6 months-1 year Contract with potential conversion/extensionClient Document Platform team is seeking for Engineer to help build and maintain critical backend services that power Client customer?facing document experiences. This role focuses heavily on backend fundamentals, microservices, and production ownership in a fast?paced, high?impact environment.Fundamentals and real?world backend experience matter more than perfect language alignment. Engineers who understand APIs, microservices, and production systems ramp quickly.
This role is ideal for a strong mid?level backend engineer who thrives in a high?ownership environment, values clean engineering fundamentals, and is comfortable owning production?grade systems. Perfect language alignment is less important than proven backend depth, problem?solving ability, and real?world experience.Required Qualifications Must?Have Technical Skills:Backend Language C# /.NET - RequiredBackend Architecture & APIsHands?on experience with microservicesExperience with distributed systemsStrong understanding of RESTful API design and principlesDocker Kubernetes CI/CD pipelinesDatabases & DataMySQL and/or PostgreSQLIntermediate SQL skillsAbility to write and understand complex queriesBasic query tuning and troubleshootingCore Engineering Fundamentals (Very Important)Strong Object?Oriented Programming (OOP) principlesAbility to write clean, maintainable, production?ready codeFamiliarity with design patterns (e.g., decorator and common OOP patterns)Sound engineering judgment and first?principles thinking