Hire .NET Developers

C# is a large language and most candidates can write it competently, so that is rarely where the difference lies. It shows up in async discipline - understanding why blocking on an async call deadlocks in some contexts, why fire-and-forget loses exceptions, and how thread-pool starvation actually manifests under load rather than in a tutorial.

It shows up again in data access. A developer who knows Entity Framework Core well can explain what query their LINQ produces, spot an N+1 before it reaches production, and knows when tracking should be turned off. One who treats EF as an opaque layer will write code that passes review and then falls over at realistic data volumes.

The third marker is dependency injection and application lifetime: knowing why a scoped service injected into a singleton is a bug, and how configuration, options and hosted services fit together. These are unglamorous, and they are exactly what separates an application that runs quietly for years from one that needs restarting every few days.

Most engagements are not greenfield. Developers join a system that already exists, carries history, and cannot stop shipping while they learn it. We treat the first week as deliberate orientation - reading the code, running it locally, tracing a real request end to end, and fixing something small - rather than assigning a large feature immediately.

Codebases spanning both .NET Framework and modern .NET are common, and a developer who can only work in one is limited. Our engineers are comfortable in older ASP.NET and Web Forms code where the business logic still lives, which matters because modernisation work almost always means operating in both worlds simultaneously for a period.

We also encourage people to leave the code slightly better than they found it without launching unrequested refactors. Large rewrites nobody asked for are how trust is lost early in an engagement; steady, reviewable improvement alongside the feature work is how it is earned.

Feature work is only part of the job. A typical week mixes building or extending API endpoints, writing the Entity Framework Core migrations and queries behind them, adding unit and integration tests, and reviewing colleagues' pull requests. Just as much time goes into the less visible work: reading logs and traces when something misbehaves in production, tuning a slow query, or tightening an authentication flow after a security review.

On cloud-hosted systems the role extends into the pipeline. Developers maintain build and release definitions, manage configuration and secrets per environment, and keep an eye on the cost and health of the Azure resources their code depends on. A good .NET hire treats observability - structured logging, health checks, meaningful metrics - as part of the feature rather than something to add later.

Communication is the remaining piece. Clear pull-request descriptions, short written updates and honest estimates matter more for a remote developer than for someone sitting in your office, and we look for that habit as carefully as for technical skill.

Modern .NET follows a predictable annual cadence: a new major version every November, with long-term support releases maintained for three years and standard-term releases for less. That predictability is useful, but it also means an application nobody touches will fall out of support on a known date and stop receiving security fixes.

Upgrading between modern .NET versions is usually modest work - updating target frameworks and packages, addressing a handful of breaking changes, and re-running the test suite. The effort grows when upgrades are skipped for several years or when third-party packages have been abandoned. We recommend planning each LTS move as routine maintenance rather than waiting until a deadline forces it.

Moving from the legacy .NET Framework is a different undertaking. .NET Framework 4.8 is still supported as part of Windows, but it receives no new features, and technologies such as Web Forms and WCF server have no direct equivalent in modern .NET. Those migrations need an incremental plan, which is where developers comfortable in both worlds earn their keep.

Share your requirements and we reply within 24 hours. We sign an NDA before kickoff, then propose developers whose experience matches your stack, and you interview them before anyone starts. Pricing is transparent and milestone-based, agreed before work begins.

Developers can join as staff augmentation inside your existing team or as part of a dedicated team that owns a product area. Either way, you own the code and intellectual property, and everything lives in your own repositories and tooling. PixoBots has been building software since 2008, and we would rather tell you plainly when a hire is not the right answer than staff a role that should not exist.