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Quick Facts About the Role

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

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

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.

1.   In-Depth knowledge and experience with C# .NET Core are must.

2.   Experience in working with API Gateways, REST, SOAP, OAuth, SAML.

3.   Experience inworking with Kafka based environment.

4.   Microservices and Event driven Architecture (with a focus on cloud).

5.   Experience and understanding of OOPS and SOLID design principals.

6.   Well verse with Design Patterns.

7.   Familiarity with Azure and AWS offerings.

8.   Understanding of Relational and NoSQL databases SQL Server, Azure SQL, MongoDB, Elastic.

9.   Familiarity with the .NET framework

10. Familiar with various design and architectural patterns

11. Knowledge of concurrency patterns in C#

12. A willingness to get trained and work on cutting edge technologies like React, Node etc.

13. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

14. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

15. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git

Familiarity with CICD tools, JIRA, Azure devops etc

We are looking for  4+ years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or Administrator able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the cloud computing market, enterprise, and open-source technologies.

- Azure AZ-104 Certified Azure Administrator, AWS  Certification or GCP Professional Certification required

 Advanced scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python) .E
experience in automation, configuration, etc. Ideally has experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or equivalent.

 Container technologies (Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, CoreOS)

 Experience in support and configuration of systems and application monitoring services (CloudWatch, Prometheus, StackDriver, Azure Monitor)

 Experience with cloud management and governance technologies (CloudHealth, CloudCheckr)

Experience using, and configuring ITSM systems (Zendesk, ServiceNow)

Familiarity with running mission-critical infrastructure within 24x7 production environment

Do you want to develop products and experiences that mean the world to your clients and their users? Do you want to work on transformative projects as opposed to minor tweaks to a product? Do you want to be exposed to work ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to global non-profits?

We are Finiteloop, a growing design and technology studio in Bangalore. We work hard to build grounded and exhilarating experiences for our customers and their users. Our design work dives deep into Design Thinking, Experience design, and Service design. On the technology side, we work on Solution architecture of large enterprise applications and, cutting-edge explorations on new technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain.

We strive for client success and push our clients into thinking and doing more for their customer's experiences. All of us are self-driven individuals passionate about building products that deliver great experiences at scale. Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects: communication design for safety culture on board cargo ships, mobile app for seafarer community, transforming how public radio can integrate with the digital world and, simplifying the user experience of oil and gas explorers.

We are looking for a person with excellent visual sensibilities with an ability to code jaw-dropping designs that make people feel like a part of the future. We want to look towards you as our Usability champion, especially when designing for accessibility. You will have to be self-driven, understand your brief and think more on it before executing it as per schedule. You will juggle couple of projects at the same time and we will create a space you follow your creative processes within these project constraints.

We have an extremely open culture that promotes questioning, honest critique and, quirky thinking. Over and above everything, we only can work with people who will do anything to follow the highest ethics of business and teamwork and a dedication to their craft.

Applications we want to work with you on:

• Digital applications and media (web or Mobile)
• Detailed component-level reusable UI libraries
• Applying micro interactions and creating components for the same.
• Developing user friendly, interactive, responsive web and mobile apps.

Things we would love to surprise us with:

• Independently design & develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability on front-end side
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders
• Ensures latest technology standards, guidelines are utilized for development
• Assess & analyse web performance, come with resolution & causes and guide the team in implementation
• Guide and mentor team members
• Image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Enable and use automation tools to fast track development

Technologies & Tools we would want you to work on:

• ReactJS
• Angular
• HTML, CSS, CSS Pre-Processors
• NodeJS
• SEO, Accessibility
• Automated Unit & End-End tests
• React Native, Flutter

Some of our projects which you will get to work on: COVID-19 response | Service design exercise for reorganizing a $200mil company | Creating UX experience for products using Blockchain technology | Speculative design exercises for imagining the future | Creating an award-winning marketing website | Reimagining public radio digital experience

Write to us with any samples of work and a small note on why you would be interested to work with us.