Hire .NET Developers

Ideaware places senior .NET developers from Latin America on US engineering teams. They write C# on current .NET, build APIs in ASP.NET Core and deploy to Azure. You see vetted candidates within 48 hours, your pick starts 8–12 days after the first call, and they work US business hours. A senior .NET developer costs $5,000–8,000 a month with payroll, benefits and equipment included.

.NET is a mainstream enterprise stack: 27.8% of developers used C# and 19.7% used ASP.NET Core in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. The catch is age. Many candidates spent their careers on .NET Framework 4.x and Web Forms. If you are modernizing, you need someone who knows both worlds, and we screen for that.

What a .NET developer costs in the US

A US .NET developer earns an average of $55.95 an hour, with reported pay from $40.75 to $76.81, according to Indeed salary data updated September 2026. At 2,080 hours a year, that average works out to about $116,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median for all software developers at $135,980 (May 2025).

Benefits sit on top of that: they make up 30% of employer compensation costs in US private industry (BLS, June 2026).

Once benefits and fees count, most teams save 40–60% against a comparable US hire. The developer cost guide shows rates for every role we place.

The .NET stack our developers work in

Our .NET developers work on .NET 8 and later and know the .NET Framework code most companies still run. Most profiles cover:

• Core: C# 12 and later, ASP.NET Core (minimal APIs and MVC), Entity Framework Core, LINQ
• Architecture: Clean Architecture, domain-driven design, CQRS with MediatR, modular monoliths and microservices
• APIs and real time: REST with OpenAPI, gRPC, GraphQL with Hot Chocolate, SignalR
• Azure: App Service, Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, Microsoft Entra ID
• Data: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Testing and delivery: xUnit or NUnit, Moq or NSubstitute, Testcontainers, Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions, Docker

Many .NET teams pair the backend with an Angular or React frontend. We can staff both.

How we vet .NET developers

We accept about 3% of applicants. .NET candidates pass five steps: an async technical assessment, a 90-minute live coding session, an architecture review of a system they built, an English and communication interview, and reference checks with former managers.

The technical rounds test the skills an enterprise .NET codebase needs:

• Async C#: async/await without deadlocks, cancellation tokens, and when ConfigureAwait matters
• EF Core: reading the generated SQL, avoiding N+1 loads and tracking overhead, and shipping migrations safely
• API design: an ASP.NET Core endpoint with validation, auth policies, versioning and problem-details errors
• Dependency injection: service lifetimes, and the bug a scoped service causes inside a singleton
• Modernization: a plan to move a .NET Framework app to current .NET, piece by piece, behind tests
• Azure operations: configuration, secrets in Key Vault, and tracing a production issue in Application Insights

You interview the finalists yourself, and we can arrange a paired session on your codebase.

.NET, Java or Node.js: which backend hire do you need?

Hire a .NET developer when your systems already run on the Microsoft stack, you deploy to Azure, or you work in a regulated industry that standardized on SQL Server and Windows services. Consider a different profile when:

• Your enterprise backend runs on the JVM: a Java developer.
• Your team writes TypeScript end to end: a Node.js developer.
• You need infrastructure, CI/CD and cloud cost work: a DevOps engineer.
• You are comparing backend stacks: the backend developers overview.

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