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Frontline Education
Principal Software Engineer, Back-End .NET
AWS
C#
K-12
Edtech.com's Summary
Frontline Education is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, Back-End .NET to lead the evolution of its enterprise K-12 platform in a highly regulated, compliance-driven environment. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, product delivery, and applied AI, designing resilient back-end services on the Microsoft stack and AWS while establishing patterns for safely incorporating AI capabilities into production systems. It’s a fully remote, full-time role offering a base salary of $160,000–$180,000.
Highlights
- Leads design and modernization of enterprise back-end systems using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and Microsoft SQL Server
- Designs and implements back-end services integrating AI into enterprise workflows, including document processing and decision support
- Ensures AI-enabled features include appropriate controls, explainability, audit trails, and human review mechanisms
- Establishes reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, and implementation standards for back-end services
- Builds systems meeting regulated-environment expectations for data privacy, auditability, and traceability
- Sets a high bar for code quality, automated testing, reliability, and CI/CD practices
- Mentors senior and staff-level engineers on architecture and technical decision-making
- Requires 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep C#/.NET expertise
- Requires hands-on experience integrating AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled capabilities into production systems
- Requires experience supporting regulated, compliance-driven industries such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance
Principal Software Engineer, Back-End .NET Full Description
Location: Remote, USA
About the Role: Frontline Education is seeking a Principal .NET Software Engineer to help lead the evolution of its enterprise platform in a highly regulated, compliance-driven industry. This role is ideal for a senior technical leader with deep expertise in building scalable back-end systems with the Microsoft technology stack and AWS, with hands-on experience integrating AI-enabled workflows into real-world enterprise workstreams. As a Principal Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of architecture, product delivery, engineering excellence, and applied AI, designing resilient back-end services, guiding technical strategy, mentoring senior engineers, and helping establish practical patterns for safely incorporating AI capabilities into production systems.
Technical Leadership & Architecture:
- Leads the design, development, and modernization of enterprise-grade back-end systems using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture
- Defines and influences architectural direction for critical capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable
- Serves as a technical authority across engineering teams on tradeoffs related to performance, resiliency, data integrity, and compliance
- Establishes reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, and implementation standards
AI Workflow Integration:
- Designs and implements back-end services that integrate AI capabilities into enterprise workstreams, including document processing, classification, anomaly detection, and decision support
- Ensures AI-enabled features are implemented with appropriate controls, explainability, audit trails, and human review mechanisms
- Collaborates with data science, platform, and vendor teams to integrate LLMs, AI services, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns into production software
- Helps define engineering standards for responsible AI usage, including model interaction logging and monitoring for quality, latency, cost, and risk
Regulatory, Security & Compliance Alignment:
- Builds systems that meet the expectations of regulated environments, with strong controls around data privacy, auditability, and traceability
- Partners with security and compliance teams to support threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, and audit readiness
- Designs AI-enabled workflows with safeguards including data minimization, role-based access, and human approval gates
Engineering Excellence & Mentorship:
- Sets a high bar for code quality, automated testing, reliability, observability, and CI/CD practices
- Reviews complex designs and code changes, providing technical guidance to engineers at all levels
- Mentors senior and staff-level engineers on architecture, technical decision-making, and system design
- Acts as a trusted advisor to product and engineering leadership on incorporating AI capabilities into enterprise products
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience designing enterprise back-end systems
- Deep expertise with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, background services, and asynchronous programming
- Strong experience with enterprise architecture, including microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven patterns
- Experience designing and operating production systems in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Hands-on experience integrating AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled capabilities into business workflows
- Experience with data-intensive applications, including relational databases, SQL performance tuning, and data modeling
- Experience working in or supporting regulated, compliance-driven industries such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, or legal technology
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS Bedrock, OpenAI APIs, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation
- Experience designing human-in-the-loop workflows, approval flows, and audit trails for AI-assisted processes
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform
- Experience with domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS, and event sourcing
Compensation & Benefits:
- $160,000–$180,000 base salary, plus bonus eligibility and long-term incentive opportunities
- 401(k) with company match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Generous paid time off and tuition reimbursement
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