Back-End Software Developer

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

• 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