Job Information
Apex Systems, Inc. Applications Dev & Test - Software Design Engineer 4 - 3017088 in Redmond, Washington
Job#: 3017088
Job Description:
Job Title: Software Design Engineer 4
Duration: Approximately 5 months
Location: Onsite -- Greater Seattle Area, WA
Openings: 4
Shortlist Deadline: 1/9/2026
Rate Range: $73--$77/hr
Top 3 Must-Have Skills
1) C# / .NET Development (6+ years)
- Strong, hands-on experience developing production systems using C# across .NET Framework and modern .NET (.NET Core / .NET 6+).
- Proven experience working on large or legacy codebases, including refactoring, modernizing projects, and improving code quality.
- Experience with SDK-style project migrations, NuGet package upgrades, and .NET runtime/framework upgrades.
- Ability to write maintainable, testable code and troubleshoot complex issues in service-oriented systems.
2) Cloud Services (4+ years)
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating services in a cloud environment.
- Experience developing and maintaining RESTful Web APIs hosted in the cloud.
- Practical experience with cloud environments, including subscriptions, resource groups, and service configuration.
- Familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD workflows and platform upgrades impacting live services.
3) Infrastructure as Code & DevOps Foundations (3+ years)
- Strong experience defining and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform).
- Experience upgrading or migrating build and deployment pipelines (Azure DevOps or equivalent).
- Understanding of infrastructure modernization efforts such as pipeline migrations, environment isolation, and platform compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to improve developer productivity by strengthening build reliability, test pipelines, and automation.
Typical Day in the Role
- Design, develop, implement, test, and maintain business and computer applications software or specialized utility programs.
- Work on modernization of services, code base, and infrastructure, focusing on tasks related to business logic.
- Specific tasks include migrating project definitions to new standards, cleaning up source code warnings, upgrading NuGet packages, and modernizing old services to use updated authentication and authorization methods.
- Additional work may involve build pipeline migrations and infrastructure-level improvements, with a strong emphasis on C# and cloud experience, covering both .NET Framework and .NET Core.
- Gather and analyze system requirements, document specifications, and develop software solutions to meet client needs.
- Analyze and review enhancement requests and specifications.
- Implement system software and customize to client requirements.
- Prepare detailed software specifications and test plans.
- Code new programs to client's specifications and create test data for testing.
- Modify existing programs to new standards and conduct unit testing of developed programs.
- Create migration packages for system testing, user testing, and implementation.
- Provide quality assurance reviews.
- Perform post-implementation validation of software and resolve any bugs found during testing.
Candidate Requirements
- Must have strong technical skills in C#, .NET, cloud services, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Excessive job hopping (e.g., changing jobs every month over the past two years) is considered a red flag.
- Prior experience with large-scale enterprise systems is preferred.
Best vs. Average Candidate
Experience splitting or migrating workloads to new reposit