Full Stack .NET Developer

Simon & Schuster was named to Forbes magazine list of America’s Best Mid-Size Employers 2022. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.

About The Role Simon & Schuster, one of the world’s leading publishers, is investing in a multi-year modernization of the core systems that power order management, fulfillment, partner integration, and financial transactions. We are replacing long-established technology with modern .NET and SQL solutions using an AI-assisted approach. The program is already delivering measurable performance improvements in production.

The Full-Stack .NET Developer is the hands-on builder on the modernization team. You will take legacy batch programs and, working from documented business requirements, replace them with modern, production-grade .NET services and SQL solutions that are validated in parallel against the existing system before every cutover. As the program advances, the role extends to modern web front ends that replace legacy green-screen workflows, which is why full-stack capability matters.

AI tooling is central to how this team works: AI assists with legacy analysis, code generation, test generation, and documentation. You will use these tools daily — and you will be expected to review, refine, and validate AI-generated code critically rather than accept it blindly.

Key Responsibilities

• Build modern replacements — Implement .NET worker services, APIs, and T-SQL stored procedures that replace legacy COBOL batch programs while preserving required business behavior.
• Review and refine AI-generated code — Use AI-assisted development for speed, then apply engineering judgment: correctness, edge cases, error handling, performance, and maintainability are yours to guarantee.
• Implement target architecture patterns — Apply the program’s established patterns: structured logging and run telemetry, configuration-driven behavior, parallel-run (“shadow”) support, restartability, and clean integration contracts.
• Support validation and cutover — Instrument every replacement for reconciliation against legacy output; work with the QA / Test Automation Engineer to drive each package to a clean validation gate before production cutover.
• Resolve complex conversion issues — Debug behavioral differences between legacy and modern implementations, working with legacy specialists to understand what the original code actually does.
• Front-end development — Build and maintain modern web UI components as the program modernizes user-facing workflows (browser-based replacements for legacy green-screen transactions).
• Contribute to engineering standards — Capture lessons learned, improve shared frameworks and templates, and help raise the quality bar as the team scales.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional full-stack .NET development — C#, .NET (modern .NET 6+ preferred), building and operating production services.
• Experience using AI tools to assist development — e.g., AI-assisted code generation, code review, test generation, or documentation — with the judgment to critically validate generated output before it ships.
• Strong SQL Server / T-SQL skills — stored procedures, set-based logic, transactions, and query-performance fundamentals.
• Back-end service experience — background/worker services, scheduled or batch processing, structured logging, and configuration management.
• Front-end web development experience — modern web UI with ASP.NET Core (Razor/Blazor) or a JavaScript/TypeScript framework (React, Angular, or similar).
• Production mindset — experience owning code that runs unattended in production: error handling, restartability, observability, and safe deplo…