Full Stack Developer

With eleven offices across the United States, 500+ professionals and 350+ business professionals, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (), 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.

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.

• Build and maintain web applications and services in React, Type Script, 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 Dev Ops or Git Hub 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 , 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  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/Type Script, HTML5, and CSS
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• 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 Type Script and React.
• Integrate…