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A .NET Developer builds, maintains, tests, and improves applications using Microsoft's .NET ecosystem.
Their responsibilities can include:
The exact role depends heavily on your software.
A modern SaaS .NET Developer might work with:
A developer maintaining an established business system may work with:
Another developer may specialize in:
Define whether you need modern .NET, .NET Framework, or both before you start screening candidates.
If .NET already defines your technology stack, direct platform experience will usually shorten the learning curve.
A developer can take ownership of:
ASP.NET Core provides a mature environment for:
A .NET Developer can own the server-side API layer while frontend and mobile teams consume it.
C# developers frequently work across .NET.
If your product uses C# throughout the backend, hire someone with direct experience across:
rather than evaluating C# as an isolated syntax requirement.
Legacy doesn't automatically mean obsolete.
Your company may rely on a stable application built on:
You need someone who understands that architecture and can improve it safely.
Migration can involve:
An experienced developer can help split the migration into manageable stages.
Performance problems may come from:
A strong developer can profile the application rather than guessing.
ORM convenience can hide inefficient database behavior.
Problems may include:
A .NET Developer with SQL and EF Core depth can inspect what actually reaches the database.
Azure and .NET integrate deeply.
The role may involve:
.NET is also fully viable on AWS.
Developers may work with:
Don't limit your candidate pool to developers whose cloud background is exclusively Azure unless Azure is genuinely mandatory.
A developer may need to package .NET services with Docker and run them through:
A distributed .NET environment may involve:
Look for actual production distributed-systems experience.
Applications may need to move work such as:
off the synchronous HTTP request path.
A .NET Developer can design background services and queue consumers.
SignalR can support:
Developers with direct real-time application experience can help design the connection and scaling model.
.NET remains a strong option for internal systems connected with:
A mature .NET application should have confidence around important:
A senior developer can improve test architecture rather than adding superficial coverage.
Strong .NET Developers combine C# depth with practical application architecture and production experience.
Candidates should understand:
For new applications, prioritize supported modern .NET experience.
Current applications may run on several supported or recently supported generations.
The candidate should understand modern project structure and runtime behavior rather than speaking only in terms of the old .NET Framework.
Web-focused candidates should understand:
Minimal API experience can be useful for modern service-oriented applications.
It shouldn't replace knowledge of broader HTTP and architecture fundamentals.
Candidates should understand:
Ask practical lifetime questions rather than definitions alone.
Relevant experience includes:
Strong SQL is valuable even when the application uses EF Core.
Candidates should understand:
Dapper can be useful when your environment uses it for direct SQL access.
Don't require it simply because it appears in other .NET job descriptions.
Candidates should understand:
Modern API roles benefit from understanding API contracts and documentation.
Look for practical experience with relevant approaches such as:
Candidates should understand async beyond adding the async keyword.
Explore:
Strong developers should understand how cancellation can flow through:
Relevant tools may include:
Look for meaningful:
testing experience.
Senior candidates should know how to investigate:
Relevant experience may include:
Distributed applications may require:
Prioritize SignalR when your product includes real-time features.
Prioritize gRPC when internal service-to-service communication uses it.
Azure experience is valuable when your application runs there.
Relevant services might include:
AWS is equally valid when that is your production environment.
Modern cloud-oriented .NET developers should usually be comfortable with containerization when your deployment model uses it.
Require Kubernetes only if your architecture genuinely depends on it.
Candidates should be comfortable with:
Relevant experience may include:
Require .NET Framework experience when the candidate will maintain or migrate an existing Framework application.
Otherwise, don't make outdated Framework technologies central to a modern .NET job description.
.NET Developers often collaborate with:
They should be able to explain architecture decisions clearly.
.NET Developer compensation varies according to:
South's current .NET Developer calculator lists an average U.S. salary of approximately $9,300 per month and an all-in monthly rate of approximately $4,650 for Latin American talent.
That's potential savings of approximately 50%.
Your actual rate will depend on the profile you need.
Junior developers can contribute to:
They perform best inside an established architecture with strong review.
Mid-level developers can usually own complete application features.
They may handle:
Senior developers can make broader architectural decisions.
They may:
Some organizations specifically need developers maintaining older Microsoft applications.
This specialization can include:
This role is narrower and centers on web/API development.
For Microsoft-heavy cloud environments, combining both terms may accurately reflect the actual responsibilities.
A strong .NET interview should test C#, application architecture, ASP.NET Core, data access, async programming, testing, and production debugging.
Avoid making it a Visual Studio trivia quiz.
Ask:
Walk me through the most complex .NET application you've shipped or maintained.
Then ask:
Ask:
What's the practical difference between modern .NET and .NET Framework?
Strong candidates should understand:
without claiming every Framework application needs an immediate rewrite.
Ask:
You have one service registered as a singleton that depends on a scoped DbContext. What's the problem?
Look for practical understanding of service lifetimes.
Ask:
This API performs three independent external HTTP requests. How would you think about executing them?
Explore:
Ask:
Why can calling .Result or .Wait() on asynchronous work cause problems?
Look for understanding of blocking and thread usage rather than memorized slogans.
Ask:
An EF Core endpoint returns 500 customers and then loads orders separately for each one. What's happening?
Look for recognition of N+1-style behavior.
Ask:
When might you choose Dapper instead of EF Core?
Strong candidates should discuss tradeoffs rather than claiming one is always faster or superior.
Ask:
An EF Core query suddenly takes eight seconds after the table grows. How would you investigate it?
Look for:
Ask:
Design a .NET API for orders and payments.
Explore:
Ask:
A user closes their browser while a long-running database query is executing. How can the application avoid doing unnecessary work?
CancellationToken should appear naturally in the discussion.
Ask:
How would you secure an ASP.NET Core API used by a browser application?
Explore:
Ask:
An endpoint needs to generate a PDF that takes 90 seconds. Should the request stay open?
Strong candidates may discuss:
Ask:
How would you approach migrating a large .NET Framework application to modern .NET?
Look for a staged plan around:
rather than “rewrite it from scratch.”
Ask:
A .NET API's memory use keeps increasing under load. What would you investigate?
Strong candidates may discuss:
Ask:
Tell me about a .NET production incident you helped resolve.
Follow with:
Useful questions include:
Choose questions based on your application.
A WPF developer maintaining financial desktop software and an ASP.NET Core engineer building cloud APIs need very different technical interviews.
A .NET Developer is the broader role.
They may work across:
An ASP.NET Developer specializes more specifically in the web portion of the .NET ecosystem.
Hire an ASP.NET Developer when the role centers almost exclusively on:
Hire a .NET Developer when you need broader platform ownership.
These titles often overlap.
A C# Developer emphasizes the programming language.
A .NET Developer emphasizes the broader application platform.
Someone may be a highly skilled C# developer while working in:
without deep ASP.NET Core or EF Core experience.
Use .NET Developer when platform expertise matters.
A Back-End Developer is a broader server-side role that may use:
A .NET Developer specializes specifically in Microsoft's development ecosystem.
Hire the .NET specialist when C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and associated technologies define your stack.
Both may build:
The appropriate role depends on the existing application ecosystem.
Direct stack experience usually matters more than treating both platforms as completely interchangeable.
An Azure Developer is defined more heavily by cloud-platform expertise.
A .NET Developer is defined more heavily by application-platform expertise.
One person may be both.
A role described as Senior .NET / Azure Developer can be appropriate when the developer owns the C# application and its Azure integrations.
A .NET Developer may work primarily on the backend.
A Full-Stack Developer also needs meaningful frontend depth.
A typical Microsoft-oriented full-stack profile might combine:
ASP.NET Core
Angular or React
or:
ASP.NET Core
Blazor.
Hire according to how much frontend ownership the role actually has.
South helps U.S. companies find .NET Developers across Latin America based on the application, framework version, cloud environment, and seniority involved.
Start with your real stack.
Consider:
A developer maintaining an old WPF application needs a different background from someone building .NET 10 microservices on Linux containers.
South identifies .NET Developers across Latin America whose experience aligns with your requirements.
Evaluation can include:
You receive a focused selection of candidates rather than sorting through a large volume of general software-engineering applications.
Compare their:
Your engineering team interviews the developers you want to meet.
Use realistic:
that reflect your actual application.
You make the final hiring decision and manage your .NET Developer as part of your team.
South provides one consolidated monthly invoice covering your teammate's compensation and South's service.
There are no minimum commitments, and South offers a free replacement if you need to make a change.
.NET Developers frequently collaborate with:
Latin America's overlap with U.S. working hours supports:
Companies can access .NET Developers across Latin America with experience in C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and mature Microsoft applications.
A .NET Developer builds and maintains applications using Microsoft's .NET platform.
Their work may include C#, ASP.NET Core, APIs, EF Core, databases, background services, cloud integrations, testing, and production support.
South's current primary calculator lists an all-in monthly rate of approximately $4,650 for Latin American .NET talent compared with an average U.S. salary of approximately $9,300 per month.
That's potential savings of approximately 50%.
Look for strong C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core where relevant, databases, SQL, async programming, APIs, testing, and production experience.
Cloud and legacy .NET Framework requirements should match your application.
For a new modern .NET application in 2026, current supported .NET experience is valuable.
Candidates maintaining older production applications may need expertise in earlier supported versions or .NET Framework instead.
Modern .NET evolved directly from .NET Core.
Microsoft dropped the “Core” name beginning with .NET 5.
Candidates may still describe their experience as “.NET Core,” especially when discussing older applications, but current development is simply called .NET.
C# is the dominant language for .NET application development and will be required for most .NET roles.
Only if your production environment uses Azure.
.NET also runs well on AWS, Linux, containers, and other cloud infrastructure.
Most business-application .NET Developers benefit significantly from strong SQL because relational databases remain common across the ecosystem.
A .NET Developer can work across many application types.
An ASP.NET Developer specializes more specifically in web applications and APIs.
Yes. Latin America has .NET Developers with experience across C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure, AWS, Docker, modern .NET, and legacy .NET Framework applications, with working hours that can align closely with U.S. teams.
The right .NET Developer helps your team keep mature Microsoft applications stable while taking advantage of the cross-platform, cloud-ready capabilities of modern .NET where they make sense.
South helps U.S. companies find pre-vetted .NET Developers across Latin America based on C# depth, .NET experience, application architecture, seniority, and communication.
Schedule a free call and find your next .NET Developer in Latin America with South.
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
Pricing is one flat monthly rate per hire. The rate includes your teammate's compensation and South's service in a single consolidated invoice. It covers sourcing, vetting, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if you ever need one. Rates vary by role and seniority. See our savings by role page for typical ranges, then we'll confirm an exact rate for your role.
There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments, and you only pay if you make a hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
