Senior Software Engineer

Shieldpay
London, UK
14 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Shift work
Job source

Tech stack

ASP.NET JavaScript (Programming Language) .NET Framework Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Business Logic ASP.NET MVC Framework C Sharp (Programming Language) Databases Extract Transform Load (ETL) Dependency Injection Entity Framework
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JQuery Microsoft SQL Server Systems Development Life Cycle SQL Stored Procedures SQL Databases Data Streaming TypeScript Data Logging Backend Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Code Restructuring Web Api Microservices

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on untangling complex systems and modernising core infrastructure without breaking production. This is an exciting opportunity to modernise core C#/SQL systems! Extract legacy business logic, build clean services, and verify changes in shadow mode with zero downtime to revenue flows.

  • Extract business rules scattered across C#, embedded JavaScript and undocumented SQL stored procedures into a clean, tested, dependency-free rules assemblies.
  • Build new services cleanly. with proper Dependency Injection (DI), robust authentication / authorization, structured logging, and full observability.
  • Work fluently across both legacy .NET Framework 4.8 (ASP.NET MVC5, WebAPI 2, EF6) and modern .NET, as both will coexist for the whole transition period.
  • Navigate across the multiple existing systems such as the API façade, the ETL pipeline, the SNS/SQS event bus, since neither system is self-sufficient and most real bugs live in the coupling, not one side.
  • Deploy changes using shadow-mode verification (compute, log, and compare against legacy outcomes without writing) until equivalence is rigorously proven.
  • Refactor and optimise heavy SQL Server stored procedures and backend logic with total precision ensuring client-money correctness is never compromised.

Requirements

  • Senior-level, hands-on experience in modern .NET (.NET 6+) paired with deep, comfortable familiarity with legacy .NET Framework 4.8 (ASP.NET MVC 5, WebAPI 2, Entity Framework 6). We need someone who respects the legacy code and is happy working in it today.
  • High proficiency in reading, understanding, and safely refactoring complex, stored-procedure-heavy database logic.
  • Working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript. You’ll be interacting with both jQuery on the legacy .NET front end and modern TypeScript microservices on our sister platform.
  • A strong “legacy technology” instinct over a “rewrite everything” approach. You favour stability, predictability, and incremental progress over shiny trends.
  • Experience or comfort with golden-master testing, diffing, and shadow verification to mathematically/logically prove equivalence to legacy outputs.
  • The ability to hold two disparate architectures in your head at once and reason through their edge cases, data flows, and coupling points.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, and RDS.
  • Comfort operating alongside an in-house AI-agent orchestrator that supports and automates parts of our SDLC.

Benefits & conditions

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