Hire C# developers expertly trained on AI and product thinking
Hire dedicated C# developers from a staffing partner founded by a 20-year C# developer. We have placed hundreds of senior C# and ASP.NET engineers in the Philippines, including the team behind enterprise systems at AMC Theatres. Every engineer on the bench is pre-vetted, full-time, and ready to start in 7 days.
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Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
I switched from VB to C# in 2004 and never looked back
Like a lot of early .NET developers, I came from a Visual Basic background and briefly wrote VB.NET before switching to C# around 2004. My first three startups were all built on the Microsoft stack, and I still ship C# today for internal apps we run at Full Scale. Twenty-plus years in, C# is still the language I have spent the most time reading, writing, and reviewing in my career, and I will still recommend it over almost anything else for a serious backend.
Part of why is that it compiles. I have never been a fan of the scripted languages a lot of developers reach for. The type system and the compiler catch a huge class of problems before they ever reach production, and modern C# has only gotten better at it. At Stackify, when .NET Core landed on Linux, we jumped on it and ported some of our highest-volume API services to .NET Core running on Kubernetes on Azure. That migration was a real test of how far the language and the runtime had come, and they delivered.
Full Scale is a C# development company built around senior Filipino developers and the Product Driven framework. We have hired hundreds of C# engineers in the Philippines over the years, we test them on real architecture and language craft rather than syntax quizzes, and we have built dedicated C# development teams for fast growing SaaS companies and for AMC Theatres. If you are serious about hiring offshore C# developers who can actually build things, you are in the right place.
AI-powered C# engineers, trained on Product Driven principles
Most enterprise C# teams adopting AI are shipping more code without shipping better software. The slop volume climbs, production bugs follow, and engineers whose only skill is typing faster end up costing more in cleanup than they save in keystrokes.
Full Scale C# developers are trained on something different: the Product Driven approach from Matt's book, combined with the full modern AI toolkit (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor). They think first, type second, and use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't add value. That combination is rare, and it is what enterprise C# teams should actually be hiring for in 2026.
Product Driven engineering
Our engineers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is C# developers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a ticket should exist before writing it, and own the outcome of what ships. They are not order takers.
Read Product Driven, the bookAI as a thinking partner
Every C# engineer on our bench works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor every day. They use AI to explore options, scaffold the boring parts, generate test suites, and review their own pull requests before a human ever sees them. Judgment stays with the engineer, the grunt work moves to the machine.
AI without product thinking is just a slop machine, and the C# engineers I want on my team don't get caught by that. They reason about the system before they reach for Copilot, and they use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't matter. That's who we hire and train at Full Scale.
The C# team behind AMC Theatres
We named our adopted hawk-eagle "C#"
C# is a Southern Philippine Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus pinskeri) who was rescued and cannot safely return to the wild. He lives under the permanent care of the Philippine Eagle Foundation in Davao, and Full Scale's sponsorship covers his food, nutrition, veterinary care, and the Foundation's conservation education work.
We named him C# because the C# and .NET practice is one of the biggest stacks on our bench, with hundreds of hires over the years and the engineering team behind AMC Theatres. If you find yourself in Davao, the Foundation welcomes visitors.
Dedicated C# developers, starting at $35 an hour
That rate is fully loaded. Senior C# engineer in the Philippines, working full-time on your project, with payroll, benefits, HR, and equipment all handled by Full Scale. The same role hired locally in the US costs $150K to $195K a year. The math is what drives most of our clients to call.
- Full-time, dedicated C# engineer
- Pre-vetted by senior C# reviewers
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Payroll, HR, equipment, benefits handled by us
- US-based account manager you can escalate to
- 30-day replacement guarantee if it isn't a fit
Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 four years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been doing this since 2018, and pricing isn't the only reason clients stay with our C# development company, it's the easiest reason to call.
The reason offshore C# works here
You can also hire dedicated developers in the Philippines across every other stack we staff, with the same vetting bar, retention numbers, and engagement model that C# clients get.
English-fluent by default
The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. Standups, code reviews, and customer calls work the way they do with any US team member.
Real time-zone overlap
Most of our C# engineers work US business hours with 4-8 hours of real-time overlap with East and West Coast teams, so decisions happen live during shared hours rather than crawling through 24-hour async handoffs.
Deep engineering talent pool
Cebu and Manila produce tens of thousands of CS and IT graduates a year. The country has been the Microsoft stack's offshore home for two decades, and C# has been on every CS curriculum for almost as long.
Cultural alignment with US teams
Filipino engineers grow up on US business norms, US TV, and US tech culture, so agile rituals, direct feedback, and collaborative workflows feel familiar from day one. These teams integrate fast rather than needing constant management.
Writing C# is not the same as knowing C#
Anyone who passed a Microsoft certification can write some C#. Building an enterprise C# system that holds up in production requires a different bench entirely. When you outsource C# development or hire offshore C# developers, this is the gap that decides whether the project ships. Here is what we test for, and what most offshore staffing companies skip.
Modern C# language craft, not just syntax
Junior developers write classes. Senior C# engineers reason about records, pattern matching, source generators, expression trees, and async correctness. We test for the language depth that separates a C# programmer from someone who passed a certification.
EF Core that doesn't melt your database
We test for the N+1 query problem, change tracking gotchas, and when to drop into Dapper or raw SQL. Bad EF code is the single most common cause of C# performance issues we see in production.
Azure beyond "deploy to App Service"
Real Azure expertise covers Service Bus, Functions, managed identity, Key Vault, App Insights, and AKS. The bench is also stocked with engineers who can read a deployment failure and know where to look in Azure Monitor when production breaks.
Legacy migration without the breakage
Moving older C# codebases on .NET Framework 4.x to modern C# on .NET 10 is more than a project file edit. We have done full migrations for production systems with millions of users, which means we know where the landmines are before we start.
Security and identity done right
Real security work in C# covers ASP.NET Core auth, OAuth flows, JWT validation, OWASP basics, and secrets management. It isn't a checklist exercise, and we test for engineers who understand the actual attack surface of a production C# application.
Production debugging skills
A senior C# engineer should be able to read a memory dump, profile a hot path, and walk through a thread block diagram. Most offshore developers have never touched these tools.
Hire dedicated C# developers for the work that actually matters
Most C# hiring conversations skip past the actual project. What kind of C# work do you need done? Greenfield custom C# development, an Azure migration, a legacy modernization, a performance fix that's been open for six months? As a C# development company that bills for engineering hours rather than fixed-bid projects, our developers ship across all of it. Here are the C# development services we get hired for most often.
Custom C# application development
Custom C# development means greenfield builds on modern .NET 10 using Clean Architecture, MediatR, EF Core, and FluentValidation. We start with a real domain model rather than a CRUD scaffold, so the resulting codebase survives the first 18 months without a rewrite.
Read our outsourcing guideEnterprise C# development
Enterprise C# work is multi-tenant SaaS, role-based access, audit logging, and regulatory reporting: the unglamorous stuff that enterprise software lives or dies on. We staffed the team behind enterprise systems at AMC Theatres, and we know what production load looks like.
C# API development & system integration
We build REST APIs with OpenAPI contracts, gRPC for internal services, and contract testing in CI. Third-party integrations get circuit breakers (Polly), proper retry logic, and idempotency keys, which gives you an API layer your downstream consumers don't curse at.
Hire vetted API developersAzure cloud application development
We build cloud-native C# on App Service, Functions, AKS, Service Bus, and Cosmos DB, using Bicep for infrastructure, managed identity for auth, and App Insights for observability. That's the full Azure stack, with no "we deployed it to App Service" shortcuts.
Legacy C# modernization and migration
We run production C# migration projects from .NET Framework 4.x to .NET 10 without downtime. We know which third-party libraries break in a migration, where WCF and System.Web sneak in, and how to stage the cutover so business doesn't stop. This is C# modernization work we've done for systems with millions of users.
Read about .NET Core vs .NET FrameworkC# performance & debugging
Our C# performance work covers BenchmarkDotNet for hot-path profiling, dotMemory for leaks, dotTrace for CPU bottlenecks, and production memory dump analysis when things get weird. These are skills most offshore C# shops have never developed, so hire us when your application is slow and nobody knows why.
Eight C# specializations, one staffing partner
Most C# teams need more than one role. Hire dedicated C# developers, senior ASP.NET engineers, Azure cloud specialists, and C# DevOps from a single vetted bench. Mix and match seniorities as the project requires.
Backend C# Engineers
Senior backend devs handle the API layer, business logic, and data access for your application. They work fluently in ASP.NET Core, minimal APIs, MediatR, EF Core, and Dapper.
Full-Stack C# Developers
End-to-end engineers pair C# on the backend with React, Angular, or Blazor on the front. They ship features from the database to the UI without handoffs to a separate team.
ASP.NET API Engineers
Engineers in this specialization design REST and gRPC APIs in C#, document them with OpenAPI, and ship versioned, well-tested endpoints. They're used to working inside hexagonal or clean architecture from day one. If the web framework is the center of your project, you can hire dedicated ASP.NET engineers from the same bench.
Azure Cloud Engineers
Microsoft-certified Azure developers own App Service, Functions, Service Bus, AKS, Key Vault, and App Insights end-to-end. They write the Bicep too.
C# DevOps Engineers
DevOps work on these teams covers CI/CD on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability. They make C# releases boring in the good way.
Performance & Security Engineers
When production gets weird, these are the engineers you call. They run BenchmarkDotNet, dotMemory, and dotTrace investigations alongside threading audits, OWASP reviews, and identity and secrets hardening.
Xamarin / .NET MAUI Developers
MAUI developers ship cross-platform mobile builds in C# and maintain the legacy Xamarin codebases that came before them. One C# codebase covers iOS, Android, and Windows. For native iOS, Android, Flutter, or React Native work, you can also hire dedicated mobile app developers from the same bench.
C# QA & SDET
Our automation engineers write tests in xUnit, NUnit, SpecFlow, Playwright, and Selenium against ASP.NET Core services. They build the test pyramid you wish you had.
C# expertise tuned to your industry
As a C# development company that has been around for over a decade, we have placed dedicated C# developers into nearly every industry that runs Microsoft. Domain knowledge cuts onboarding time in half, so we match developers to projects where they have already shipped real code.
Media & Entertainment
We staffed the C# team behind AMC Theatres, where the surface area is huge: ticketing, payments, loyalty, queueing, mobile. Media and entertainment C# work is high-traffic, customer-facing, and unforgiving of bad releases.
From modern C# 13 minimal APIs to .NET Framework 4.8 migrations
Whether you want to hire C# developers for a greenfield ASP.NET Core build, hire Azure C# developers for a cloud migration, or outsource C# development on a legacy .NET Framework system, the bench covers every layer of the Microsoft developer stack. Pick what you need. We will match a C# programmer fluent in it.
Hire dedicated C# developers, two ways
Most clients start with a single dedicated C# developer and grow into a full team. Either way, you get full-time engineers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship code against your roadmap. Both options are staff augmentation at the core: dedicated, long-term engineers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side. See the full breakdown of how we hire dedicated C# developers across every engagement we staff.
Dedicated developer
Full-time, exclusive, sits on your standups.
- Full-time C# engineer assigned only to your project
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Joins your standups, reports to your tech lead
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
How to hire a dedicated C# developer from Full Scale
We skip the 3-6 week recruitment cycle and the cold sourcing entirely. Our bench of remote C# developers and C# programmers in the Philippines is already built and vetted, and every step below has a named owner on our side.
Discovery call
30 minutes with our team. We learn your stack, your roadmap, the seniority level you need, and the version of C# you're working in. We don't pitch on the call, we walk through what you actually need from a hire.
Engineer match
We pull 1-3 pre-vetted C# engineers from the bench whose skills, seniority, and prior project experience line up with what you described. You see their full profile and their actual project history.
Technical interview
You interview the candidates the way you would interview any senior hire: live coding, system design, EF Core gotchas, and architectural reviews. Pass anyone you don't believe in.
Contract & onboarding
Sign once. We handle every contract, payroll, equipment, and HR detail in the Philippines so you don't have an offshore entity to manage. You just get a developer.
First commit
Your developer joins your standups, gets repo access, and ships code in their first week. Our delivery managers stay involved to make sure ramp-up doesn't stall.
Full Scale vs the other ways to hire a C# developer
Every hiring path has trade-offs. Here is how a dedicated C# engineer from our C# development company compares against the alternatives most teams consider first when they want to hire C# developers.
| Feature | Full Scale | Freelancer / Upwork | Traditional offshore agency | US recruiter / FTE hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-vetted senior C# bench | ||||
| Time to first hire | 7 days | 1-3 days | 3-6 weeks | 6-12 weeks |
| Dedicated full-time, not shared | ||||
| Founder-led C# expertise | ||||
| Sits on your standups, your tools | ||||
| Long-term retention | 93%+ | low | varies | varies |
| Replace within 30 days if it's not a fit | ||||
| Handles payroll, HR, equipment | ||||
| US-based account management | n/a | |||
| Typical fully-loaded cost vs US | ~40-50% | varies | ~50-65% | 100% |
Real C# engineers, named and vetted
A sample of the engineers we are currently staffing. You'll see real names and real backgrounds during your interview round.
Built and scaled multi-tenant SaaS platforms in C# for fintech and SaaS clients. Strong in CQRS, MediatR, and Azure Service Bus integration.
Backend-to-frontend feature delivery on ASP.NET Core APIs and React SPAs. Has shipped end-to-end on three production B2B platforms.
Distributed systems specialist who has led production migrations from older C# codebases on .NET Framework to modern C# on .NET 10, including a Fortune 500 ticketing platform.
Builds CI/CD for C# teams. Containerization, IaC, blue-green deployments, observability with OpenTelemetry and App Insights.
API-first engineer who has shipped high-throughput services for retail and travel. Comfortable trading EF Core for raw SQL when latency matters.
Builds out test pyramids and CI gates for C# teams. Strong on contract testing for distributed services and BDD scenario coverage.
Engineer names are anonymized on this page. You'll see real candidates during your interview round.
The numbers behind a C# staffing partner that actually works
From the people we actually staff teams for
Full Scale's development team was pivotal in elevating our facility management software. Their expertise turned complex challenges into seamless functionalities, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
With Full Scale's developers, we transformed the commercial real estate landscape. Their team's proficiency in agile development and proactive communication accelerated our product release.
The team at Full Scale brought our vision to life with their development skills. They helped us navigate technical requirements with ease, resulting in a robust platform our users trust.
Deeper guides to C# hiring and development
What is a C# developer?
The role, the responsibilities, and what to test for when hiring.
.NET Core vs .NET Framework
Which version to pick for a new C# project and when migration is worth it.
C# vs .NET, explained
Clearing up the language vs framework confusion once and for all.
How Full Scale hires C# developers
The vetting process and bar we set for senior C# and .NET engineers.
Offshore C# development guide
When offshore is the right move and what to look for in a partner.
Azure Functions for C# teams
When serverless Azure Functions fit the bill for C# workloads and when they don't.
Everything you wanted to know about hiring C# developers
Hire a dedicated C# developer who has actually built C# systems before
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