Engineering
Contractor - W2
Responsibilities:
Lead design and development of microservices and APIs on Azure, ensuring clear, contract-first interfaces for both internal and external consumers.
Work directly with client technical teams and IntraEdge offshore engineers to align on architecture, backlog priorities, and deliverables.
Collaborate with stakeholders (Product Owner, Compliance, QA, Partners) to define requirements and translate them into technical designs.
Drive API contract governance (REST/gRPC, event schemas), manage schema registry, and enforce consistency across services.
Perform pull request reviews, code quality checks, and mentor engineers on best practices in microservices, IoT, and event-driven design.
Oversee integration of Azure IoT Hub/IoT Edge, Event Hub or Kafka, schema registry, and edge data persistence (SQLite/Azure SQL Edge).
Ensure observability through Azure Monitor, Logging, Tracing, and Metrics, integrating with dashboards and alerting systems.
Support DevOps team on CI/CD, blue/green and canary deployments, and operational runbooks.
Requirements:
8+ years of experience in cloud-native application development with strong hands-on coding background (.NET, Node.js/TypeScript, or Go).
Deep knowledge of Azure services (AKS, API Management, Event Hub, IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Blob/SQL storage, Monitor/Log Analytics).
Strong understanding of microservices design patterns (saga, idempotency, retries, pub/sub, circuit breaker).
Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka/Event Hub, schema evolution, replayable workflows).
Familiarity with IoT and Edge workloads - MQTT, offline-first, device-to-cloud sync.
Proven track record of leading distributed teams, coordinating across onshore/offshore pods, and working closely with client stakeholders.
Excellent communicator, able to bridge business and technical discussions with product managers, engineers, and external vendors.