Full Stack Developer

With eleven offices across the United States, 500+ professionals and 350+ business professionals, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (www.manatt.com), is a multidisciplinary, integrated national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. The Firm’s groundbreaking approach—bringing together legal services, advocacy and business strategy—differentiates Manatt from its competitors and positions the Firm to provide a distinct and compelling value proposition.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Full Stack Developer to deliver cloud solutions on Azure, including responsive web applications, REST APIs published through an API gateway, and complex SQL supporting financial reporting. This role owns features end to end, from schema and stored procedures through the API layer, front end, and deployment pipeline.

The successful candidate will work in a containerized, continuously deployed environment, shipping code through automated pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Service. This person should be comfortable learning unfamiliar technology quickly and adapting as the stack evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain web applications and services in React, TypeScript, C#, and .NET using ASP.NET Core MVC and Web API.
• Design and implement REST APIs with versioning, pagination, consistent error contracts, and OpenAPI documentation.
• Develop event-driven and scheduled workloads using Azure Functions.
• Write unit and integration tests and maintain meaningful coverage of business logic.
• Profile and remediate performance problems across the application and data tiers.
• Develop and optimize complex T-SQL stored procedures against financial databases in SQL Server.
• Analyze and tune query performance using execution plans, indexing strategy, statistics, and set-based rewrites of cursor-driven logic.
• Build queries and datasets behind operational and financial reports and validate results against source systems.
• Manage schema changes through versioned, repeatable migrations rather than manual production edits.
• Containerize applications with Docker and author and maintain Dockerfiles and multi-stage builds.
• Deploy and operate workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service, including deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, autoscaling, and health probes.
• Deploy and configure Azure App Service applications, including slots, scaling rules, and application settings.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions covering build, test, container image publishing, security scanning, and staged deployment.
• Manage Azure resources and configuration as code using Bicep, Terraform, or ARM, avoiding portal-only changes that cannot be reproduced.
• Instrument applications with Application Insights and act on telemetry.
• Configure and maintain Kong API Gateway services, routes, consumers, and plugins for authentication, rate limiting, request transformation, and logging.
• Implement authentication and authorization with Microsoft Entra ID, including app registrations, OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows, scopes and app roles, managed identities, and certificate-based credentials.
• Support external and partner access scenarios using Entra External ID and B2B collaboration.
• Store and rotate secrets and certificates in Azure Key Vault and keep credentials out of source control and configuration files.
• Build responsive interfaces with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Develop component-based front ends using a modern framework, with React preferred.
• Meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and verify behavior on mobile and tablet form factors.
• Consume REST APIs with appropriate handling of loading, error, and empty states.
• Develop SPFx web parts and extensions in TypeScript and React.
• Integrate with SharePoint REST APIs and Microsoft Graph for data access and automation.
• Apply least-privilege Microsoft Graph permission scoping and appropriate app-only and delegated authentication patterns.
• Work on multiple concurrent projects in collaboration with business users and other developers.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Review peers' code, accept review of your own work, and keep pull requests small enough to be reviewed meaningfully.
• Document design decisions and operational runbooks for solutions developed.
• Support occasional after-hours release windows and production incidents and participate in a shared escalation rotation for supported applications.

Qualifications

• Candidate should have 5+ years of professional C# and .NET development experience, including ASP.NET Core MVC and Web API.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have exceptional organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
• Proven expertise developing and optimizing complex T-SQL stored procedures in SQL Server.
• Demonstrated REST API design and implementation experience in production systems.
• Hands-on Azure experience with App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, and resource management.
• Experience building Docker images and running containerized workloads in production.
• Experience authoring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Microsoft Entra ID integration experience, including OAuth 2.0 and OIDC authentication flows.
• API gateway experience; Kong is preferred, and equivalent experience with Azure API Management or a similar platform is acceptable with demonstrated transferable depth.
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design.
• Experience with Git-based source control and trunk- or branch-based workflow practices.
• Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar technology quickly and apply it in production.
• SPFx, SharePoint REST API, and Microsoft Graph development experience preferred.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Bicep or Terraform preferred.
• Kubernetes ecosystem experience with Helm, Kustomize, service mesh, or GitOps tooling such as Flux or Argo CD preferred.
• Experience with message-based and event-driven architecture using Azure Service Bus or Event Grid preferred.
• Entity Framework Core and database migration tooling experience preferred.
• Power BI dataset and semantic model development experience preferred.
• Experience integrating Azure OpenAI or Azure AI Foundry services into business applications preferred.
• Experience in a professional services, legal, or other regulated environment with confidentiality requirements preferred.
• Relevant certifications, such as AZ-204, AZ-400, AZ-305, or DP-300, preferred.

• Demonstrated reliability and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a hybrid (remote and in-office) team environment. The Firm operates on a hybrid work schedule requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday, with optional remote work permitted on Mondays and Fridays. All employees must remain available for onsite work up to five days per week as business needs dictate. This schedule is subject to change; flexibility is required.

The base annual pay range for this role is between $130,000 - $165,000. The base pay to be offered will vary and depend on skills and qualifications, experience, location and will also take into account internal equity.  A full range of medical, financial and/or other benefits dependent on the position will also be offered.

EEO/AA EMPLOYER/Veterans/Disabled

Manatt is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, physical or mental disability, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex or gender (including gender identity, gender expression, status as a transgender or transsexual individual, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), age (over 40), genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, sexual orientation, political activity or affiliation, genetic or and any other protected classes or characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the American Disabilities Act, applicants may request accommodations needed to participate in the application process.

This employer will provide the Social Security Administration  (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security  (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking  adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. 

Employers may not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or  to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the  choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid,  this employer uses E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that your employer has violated its responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515).