Role
Quick Facts About the Role
Senior Software Developer (Backend) - .Net with Microservices & Cloud
Yoe
6.5+ years
Skills
C#, ASP. Net, Microservices Architecture, ASP.NET Core, Web API development, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), API Gateway / Azure API, Entra (Authentication), Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure Blob storage, Caching, NoSQL Databases
About The Role
The Software Developer Senior Designs, builds, tests, and – most importantly – ships high-value software that solves real problems. Strives for security, performance, simplicity, usability, and maintainability. Mentors and guides less experienced software engineers.
Responsibilities
- Team Contribution
- Works within established agile methods, promoting an atmosphere of continuous improvement.
- Continuously learns new technologies and patterns and practices.
- Documents knowledge for the benefit of the team.
- Reports to the team on obstacles and roadblocks.
- Participates in, and occasionally leads, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and other team meetings.
- Promote patterns and best practices on the team.
- Mentors and guides the less experienced software engineers.
- Planning and Design
- Works with the product team and stakeholders to refine and document requirements.
- Estimates effort for planning purposes.
- Designs and documents enterprise-level software architecture, consulting with Enterprise Architecture when appropriate.
- Development
- Writes code to develop software that meets requirements and specifications.
- Follows established software development life cycle (SLDC).
- Writes code with readability and future maintenance in mind.
- Follows established source control standards and best practices.
- Adheres to established secure coding practices.
- Reviews code for other developers.
- Leads team-based development efforts.
- Quality Assurance
- Validates QA findings and fixes defects.
- Develops integration and testing points in the software that allow for QA testing.
- Assists QA in running performance and load tests.
- Release
- Assists with release planning and releases.
- Support
- Assists the support team as needed, including root cause analysis.
- Writes maintenance and metric statistics scripts and entry points for measuring and monitoring.
Requirements
Solid Understanding of The Following:
Microservices Architecture
- Microservices design principles (bounded contexts, loose coupling)
- API-first design and contract management
- Event-driven design principles
- Asynchronous messaging patterns
- Eventual consistency concepts
- Idempotency and message replay handling
Technical Skills
- ASP.NET Core Web API development
- Web Apps
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Blob Storage usage and lifecycle management
- API Gateway / Azure API Management concepts
- Entra (Authentication)
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Functions
- Caching
- NoSQL Databases
Processes & Standards
Git, GitFlow, OO Programming, Kanban, Secure Coding, & Agile Methodologies
Bonus Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent documentation
- Continuous learning
- Collaboration across team and functional boundaries
- Troubleshooting and creative problem solving
- Design simple architecture that supports complex applications and APIs
- Architect extensible databases
- Author complex component-based client applications and restful APIs
- Perform advanced CRUD operations against multiple data sources
- Manipulate enterprise level data structures
- Mentor less experienced team members
- Take ownership of team processes and legacy applications
- Perform business analysis tasks, such as requirements gathering and wireframing
Evaluation Criteria
- Consider candidates with 6.5+ years of experience only (do not go below this threshold).
- Must have excellent communication skills.
- Ensure the mandatory technical skills are clearly reflected in the resume:
- C# (async/await, dependency injection, LINQ)
- ASP.Net Core
- RESTful APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- ASP.NET Core
- Web API development
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- API Gateway / Azure API
- Entra (Authentication)
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Functions
- Azure Blob storage
- Caching
- NoSQL Databases
- Candidates should have at least 3 years of hands-on experience with Azure and Microservices.
- This Azure and Microservices experience must be from their current or a recent previous project.
Skills:- Azure OpenAI, Microservices, .NET, SQL and MySQL