.NET Developer

Goaco is a tech-agnostic digital transformation and cyber security consultancy delivering secure scalable services across the UK public sector and commercial sectors. We’re growing delivery teams to support organisations modernising platforms, improving customer experience and building trusted digital services at pace.

You’ll join an agile engineering team building .NET Core services with strong QA habits, client-facing collaboration and a practical training pathway into AI-enabled delivery.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain .NET Core services and APIs for production use
• Deliver in an agile team with clear sprint outcomes and continuous improvement
• Write clean testable code using TDD and automated testing as standard
• Partner closely with QA to define test scenarios, improve coverage and reduce defects
• Containerise services with Docker and support CI/CD pipelines
• Design and query relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and reusable patterns
• Collaborate with product, delivery and client stakeholders to shape requirements and solutions
• Communicate progress, risks and technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Support secure-by-design delivery aligned to modern engineering practices

Essential skills and experience

• Experience working in an agile team or environment
• Strong experience with .NET Core
• Experience with database design and queries (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Experience using Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and unit testing
• Understanding of SOLID and DRY principles
• Experience collaborating with QA and taking ownership of quality outcomes
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical teams
• Experience using Slack JIRA Trello MS Teams or similar tools
• Experience working in a commercial environment or delivery team
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Commitment to industry coding standards and clean maintainable code

Nice to have

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) understanding
• CQRS experience
• BDD experience
• Front-end development experience at any level
• Cloud experience with AWS Azure or GCP at any level

AI training and enablement at Goaco

You don’t need to be an AI specialist already. We’ll help you build capability through a structured pathway, including:

• Hands-on training in AI-assisted development workflows and safe usage patterns
• Practical sessions on integrating LLM features into products (where appropriate)
• Prompting techniques for engineering productivity and QA support
• Guidance on secure use of AI tools for customer environments
• Opportunities to contribute to internal accelerators, templates and reusable components

What we’re looking for

• Someone who enjoys shipping high-quality software and improving how teams work
• Comfortable engaging with customers and explaining technical trade-offs clearly
• Curious mindset with a willingness to learn, share and mentor others

Why Goaco

• Delivery-first culture with high standards and real ownership
• Exposure to varied UAE client work across digital platforms and modern architectures
• Supportive learning environment including AI capability building
• A team that values integrity, unity, excellence, respect and continuous improvement

Apply: Send your CV and a short note on your .NET experience, the systems you’ve built and what you want to learn next.