Sr. Backend Software Engineer

Job Summary:

The Senior Back-End Software Developer will be responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and high-performance back-end web-based applications and services, including maintenance, testing, and debugging.

In addition to development, this individual will collaborate with a team of developers and occasionally assist junior developers in all facets of software development.

Job Goals:

• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle, from feasibility, solutioning, through development and release of the assigned applications 
• Ensure development processes, best practices, and standards are followed to produce a quality product
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in architecture, tooling, and development practices.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership for junior developers

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads and participates in the responsibilities of the development lifecycle:
• Analyze business requirements
• Ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX concepts
• Provide development estimates based on defined scope
• Architect and design solutions
• Write technical specifications and documentation
• Implement solutions by coding features, enhancements, bug fixed
• Develop, debug, write unit test, QA, and support
• Apply secure coding practices and ensure compliance with data protection standards
• Optimize system performance based on feedback from monitoring tools
• Perform code reviews to ensure quality and standards
• Perform database design and development
• Oversee the development pipeline from development to production through automation
• Follow Agile/Scrum methodologies and/or a hybrid SDLC
• Work with Azure Cloud Services - Functions, Service Bus, Containers, App Configuration
• Optimize database structures and queries for efficient storage and retrieval of spatial data (e.g., PostGIS)
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on development tasks for junior developers
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• 6+ Years back-end or full-stack development experience
• Experience collaborating with a team of software developers
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to learn and master new technologies
• 4+ Years experience in the following-
• Microservices - C# .NET 6/7/8, Entity Framework Core, Rest API, Fast Endpoints experience preferred
• Database Development – PostgreSQL, MSSQL or equivalent RDBMS
• Event Driven Architecture
• GitHub Actions or related CI/CD solutions
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices orchestration (AKS/Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis or similar)
• Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, tracing)
• Azure Cloud experience
• Function apps
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure App Configuration
• Application Insights
• Okta/Auth0 experience preferred
• Unit Test Frameworks such as xUnit
• JIRA or equivalent project management tools