Our opportunity
Senior .NET API Developer
Build the APIs for the Zurich's global platform for managing risk exposure. Underwriters, catastrophe modellers and reporting teams around the world rely on this platform to see where Zurich's biggest risks are. You'll help modernise it and build its next generation on Azure. You'll join our growing Bratislava team.
Your work has real impact. It helps Zurich understand its exposure to natural catastrophes and other major risks.
You'll use a modern technology stack. Current .NET, Azure and APIs that handle large amounts of data.
You'll learn a specialist field. Exposure management and catastrophe modelling, learned from experts.
Your role
As Senior .NET API Developer, your main responsibilities will involve:
- Design, build and run .NET RESTful APIs that serve risk data to underwriting, modelling and reporting teams.
- Modernise a business-critical platform and help design and build the cloud-native platform that replaces it on Azure.
- Connect services to data platforms, relational and spatial databases, and messaging systems.
- Keep quality high through automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD and monitoring.
- Work closely with architects, product owners, data engineers and business experts.
Your Skills and Experience
As Senior .NET API Developer, your skills and experience will ideally include:
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering, including building applications from scratch
- Strong skills in modern .NET and experience building RESTful APIs in production
- Entity Framework and strong SQL Server / T-SQL skills, including performance tuning
- Asynchronous programming and performance optimisation in .NET
- Azure PaaS (App Services, Functions) and Azure DevOps CI/CD
- Automated testing and clean, maintainable code
- Agentic AI supported software development
- Fluent English
- Confidence working with IT and business stakeholders
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale data platforms or spatial data
- Event-driven architecture and messaging (for example Azure Service Bus)
- Domain-driven design or clean architecture
- Insurance or financial services knowledge, especially exposure management or catastrophe modelling
You don't need to tick every box. If you have most of these skills and want to learn the rest, we'd love to hear from you.
We offer
Compensation for roles at Zurich depends on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific role, skill set, level of experience, and subject to applicable law. Zurich thus provides a range of compensation aligned to internal job architecture and market benchmarks to ensure fair and consistent pay for comparable roles. The starting base salary range for this position is 3150 Eur.
Working time benefits
Personal days off, Concentrated work week, Additional vacation, Home office, Extra days off at occasion of childbirth, Sabbatical leave, Workation
Monetary benefits
Life insurance from Zurich Austria, Compensation for salary loss during sick leave, 3rd pension pillar contribution, Risk Life Insurance, Meal contribution on top of the legally required minimum, Years of service bonus, Wedding bonus, Baby bonus
Other benefits
Electronic cafeteria, Maternity leave benefits, Massages in the office
Learning/Development
Professional Certifications, Online Education Portals, Extensive Onboarding program, Strengths based culture (GALLUP)
- Location: Bratislava
- Schedule: full-time
- Form: hybrid - at least 3 times per week in the office
About us
At our company, we recognize the importance of fostering an open-minded, safe and inclusive environment for everyone. We stand with diversity and respect different backgrounds and lifestyles. That's why we've implemented numerous initiatives to ensure our employees feel comfortable, accepted, and respected at all times.