
How to Hire a .NET Developer: A Practical Guide for 2026
What a good .NET developer looks like in 2026, how to test for it, and how to choose between contract, dedicated and project-based hiring.
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Senior .NET engineers who design, build and modernize production systems on C#, ASP.NET Core and the cloud — as a contract developer, a dedicated team, or a defined project.
We work across the full lifecycle of a .NET system: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and long-term maintenance.
Web applications and back-ends on ASP.NET Core, using MVC, Razor Pages or API-first designs with a separate front end.
REST APIs with ASP.NET Core Web API and Minimal APIs — versioned, documented with OpenAPI, secured and tested.
Multi-tenant SaaS back-ends: tenant isolation, subscription billing with Stripe, role-based access and background processing.
Line-of-business systems, integrations with ERP and third-party platforms, reporting and workflow applications.
App Service, Functions, Azure SQL, Service Bus, Key Vault and Azure OpenAI — deployed through CI/CD.
Incremental migration from .NET Framework, WebForms and WCF to modern .NET without a risky big-bang rewrite.
Clean architecture, modular monoliths and microservices — chosen for your team size and scale, not fashion.
Entity Framework Core and Dapper on SQL Server and PostgreSQL, query tuning, caching and profiling.
An experienced developer who can review code, unblock your team and take ownership of difficult parts of the system.
Our engineers work day-to-day in C# on current .NET releases. We favor well-understood, maintainable patterns that your own team can own after we have built them.
Most products we work on share a similar shape: web and mobile clients talking to an ASP.NET Core API, a relational database, background workers for slow jobs, and managed cloud services around them.
We keep this deliberately simple at the start and split services out only when there is a real reason — independent scaling, separate teams, or different release cycles.
| Model | Best for | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| .NET contract developer | Short-term capacity, a specific feature or a skills gap | Hourly or monthly contract, part-time or full-time, for a defined period |
| Dedicated .NET developer | Ongoing product development | A full-time engineer embedded in your team and processes |
| Dedicated .NET development team | Larger roadmaps or a new product line | Several engineers with a technical lead, working on your backlog |
| Project development | A defined product or system | Scoped delivery from architecture to release, with milestones |
| .NET architecture consulting | Design decisions, reviews and modernization plans | Fractional senior architect time, scoped per engagement |
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Read the articleWe build new work on current long-term-support and standard-term releases — .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10 — and maintain or migrate older .NET Framework applications. We recommend a target version based on your support timeline and hosting.
Yes. Much of our .NET work is extending or improving existing systems. We start by reading the code, running it locally and agreeing conventions with your team before making changes.
Yes. You can hire a .NET contract developer for a fixed period or by the hour, or a dedicated .NET developer who works full-time with your team.
Both. We deploy .NET applications to Azure App Service, Azure Functions and containers, and to AWS using containers and managed services. We use Docker and CI/CD pipelines for repeatable releases.
Yes. Alongside ASP.NET Core back-ends we build front ends in React, Next.js and TypeScript, as well as server-rendered MVC and Razor Pages where that is the better fit.
Tell us what you are building, the stack you use and the capacity you need. We reply within one business day.