Software Developer (Backend) - .Net with Microservices and Azure

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Release

Assists with release planning and releases.

6. 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
• 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 DatabasesProcesses & 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