Senior .NET Engineer (Contract) - Remote

Overview

Very Good Ventures is a global consultancy that delivers clients elegant solutions using disruptive technologies. At VGV, we believe that building very good technology starts with a culture of excellence, collaboration, humility, and openness – and of course, have a very good time while doing it. We place our company values and culture at the forefront of everything we do.

Rising to prominence as the foremost Flutter experts, VGV is at an exciting stage of growth as we expand our global presence and our range of strategic services. Our mission is to lead the most influential companies through new digital frontiers and improve the relationship between technology and those that create, manage, and experience it. VGV’s client roster spans industries, including Toyota, Google, Dow Jones, JSX, Betterment, and Norwegian Cruise Lines.

People come to work at VGV to solve challenging problems with the newest technology, alongside some of the best talent in the industry, and in a culture that remains steadfastly dedicated to its employees.

In Short

• Build and maintain background processing services using .NET 6/8 Worker Services
• Interface with MSSQL databases for data ingestion and result persistence
• Implement API integrations with internal systems and Azure-based services (Search/OpenAI)
• Build structured logging and error handling for observability and auditability
• Write clean, testable code for prompt templating and LLM payload generation

Requirements

• Strong experience with .NET 6/7/8 (C#)
• Experience with Worker Services, BackgroundServices, or scheduled job architecture
• Proficiency with MSSQL: querying, joins, schema navigation, EF Core or ADO.NET
• Comfortable writing RESTful client code (e.g., HttpClient, Refit, Flurl) and handling async workflows
• Familiar with JSON parsing, dynamic payload construction, and transformation logic
• Able to implement robust retry logic, idempotent processors, and failure recovery patterns
• Comfortable debugging and tracing issues in a multi-service pipeline

Benefits

• Communicates clearly and proactively in a remote-first, cross-disciplinary team
• Works independently with limited specs, bias toward clarity and accountability (Sr. Level)
• Comfortable engaging with client-side SMEs and refining requirements as implementation progresses