INTRODUCTION:

The Zebra is looking for a Senior .NET Engineer (Contract) to maintain and extend our internal Dynamic Insurance Rating Tool (DIRT). DIRT powers our SEO and content initiatives by generating insurance rating data used in reports, landing pages, and consumer-facing experiences.
The primary focus will be the DIRT Server, a C#/.NET application that integrates with Quadrant’s .NET Toolkit DLL to generate insurance rating data and export results. This includes responsibility for stability, performance, deployment, and monitoring.
Your primary responsibility will be owning and optimizing the DIRT Server, a C#/.NET application built on a third-party .NET Toolkit, with end-to-end accountability for stability, performance, deployment, and monitoring
As a secondary responsibility, you’ll also maintain the DIRT Client, a stakeholder-facing UI for initiating data requests, ensuring it remains reliable and aligned with evolving workflows. This role is critical to enabling The Zebra’s SEO and content teams with fresh, accurate, and scalable data to power reports and data-driven landing pages.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented C#/.NET code.
• Maintain and extend the DIRT Server applications.
• Integrate with third-party .NET toolkits (DLLs) to request and process insurance data sets.
• Implement improvements to data export and formatting data ETL pipelines (CSV generation and downstream delivery).
• Optimize application performance and reliability to handle high-throughput requests efficiently.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot DIRT server instances (currently hosted on AWS SQS).
• Ensure proper handling of coverage limits and state-level insurance regulations when making rating requests.
• Collaborate with SEO stakeholders to support new data-driven content initiatives.
• Architect future improvements to DIRT for scalability and integration into SEO and marketing workflows.