. NET Specialist Software Engineering
Transamerica1 day ago
Philadelphia, PA, USA or Denver, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$14k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and lead architecture, design, development, deployment, and operational support for business-critical Windows Services.
- Design and govern multithreaded application patterns, synchronization, thread lifecycle management, service health checks, dead-thread recovery, and controlled failure escalation.
- Diagnose and permanently resolve complex production issues involving concurrency, service stability, performance, memory usage, resource contention, hangs, and deadlocks.
- Define transaction-integrity, dead-letter, replayable processing, connection-resiliency, bounded-memory, and data-access standards.
- Provide technical authority for SQL Server design and performance, including execution plans, indexing, isolation levels, concurrency, and deadlock prevention and resolution.
- Establish deployment, configuration, monitoring, observability, runbook, documentation, and operational standards for Windows Services.
- Lead high-risk design and code reviews, mentor senior developers, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and recommend modernization strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering, or another technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Six years of professional software engineering experience with substantial depth in C# and the .NET Framework.
- Deep hands-on multithreading and concurrency expertise, including synchronization primitives, thread lifecycle management, deadlocks, race conditions, and resource contention.
- Production experience building and operating Windows Services using ServiceBase, Service Control Manager, InstallUtil/ProjectInstaller, lifecycle management, and Windows Event Log.
- Five years of advanced SQL Server engineering experience covering transactions, isolation levels, concurrency, deadlock handling, execution-plan analysis, indexing, and connection resiliency.
- Experience with relational design, RDBMS, normalization, star/Kimball modeling, LLBLGen or a comparable ORM such as Entity Framework, and service-oriented architecture.
- Experience with Visual Studio, Git or Bitbucket, SQL Server Management Studio, NUnit or comparable tools, and build/deployment pipelines.
- Ability to work independently, make and document sound engineering decisions, resolve ambiguous technical challenges, communicate with varied audiences, and improve maintainability.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, financial services or insurance experience, formal change management or L3 support experience, observability tooling experience, messaging and integration experience, cloud and containerization exposure, CI/CD experience, technology certifications, and REST/API or ASP.NET Web API familiarity.
Benefits
- Annual salary range is stated as $141,00–$165,000, with eligibility for an annual bonus.
- Benefits include a pension plan, 401(k) match, employee stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, disability, medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee discounts, paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, adoption assistance, and employee assistance programs.
- Additional offerings include backup care, volunteer PTO, matching gifts, employee resource groups, inclusion and diversity programs, wellness coaching, career development, recognition, and referral programs.
- Hybrid-office schedule requires working in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at a hub location in Philadelphia, Cedar Rapids, or Denver.
- Work outside normal business hours may be required, travel is 10–25%, and relocation assistance is not provided.
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About Transamerica
Transamerica provides insurance, retirement, and investment products to individuals, employers, and financial professionals in the U.S. Offerings include life insurance, annuities, workplace retirement plans, and investment solutions distributed through agents, advisors, and employer channels. Founded in 1904 and headquartered in Baltimore, it operates as a subsidiary of Aegon and supports millions of customers nationwide.