Microsoft-first services firm modernizing legacy systems at enterprise scale
Lateral Group is a 15-year-old services firm anchored in the Microsoft ecosystem—C#, .NET, Azure, SQL—with emerging depth in cloud infrastructure (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Bicep) and data platforms (Snowflake, Snowpark). The hiring mix is senior-heavy (29 of 39 open roles at senior level), suggesting they're staffing complex modernization engagements rather than scaling greenfield development. Active projects center on legacy portal rewrites and CI/CD infrastructure, with pain points clustered around migration strategy and cloud alignment—a pattern typical of firms absorbing wave after wave of monolith-to-cloud conversions.
Lateral Group delivers full-service technology solutions across design, implementation, and consulting for enterprises, mid-market, and startups. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the firm is primarily a Microsoft technologies services shop, with secondary capabilities in mobile (iOS, Android), web (React, JavaScript), and PHP. Recent work focuses on legacy system modernization, proprietary framework enhancement, automated testing infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code rollouts. The company maintains distributed hiring across six countries (United States, Netherlands, Romania, Brazil, Canada, Bolivia), with engineering representing the bulk of active headcount.
Core stack: C#, .NET, Azure, SQL, React, TypeScript. Infrastructure: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Bicep. Data: Snowflake, Snowpark. Testing: xUnit, NUnit, MSTest. Also uses Docker, Git, Visual Studio, Postman, WordPress.
Active projects include legacy portal modernization, C# framework enhancement, automated testing infrastructure buildout, infrastructure-as-code implementation, and CI/CD pipeline design.
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