Software Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior API Developer specializing in C# .NET to join our innovative development team. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of professional experience in API design and development, with a strong focus on creating scalable and efficient APIs. Expertise with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications is essential. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to exciting projects that are central to our company's success.

Key Responsibilities:

• API Design and Development: Develop, maintain, and enhance APIs using C# .NET to facilitate seamless communication between applications and services.
• Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation: Use Swagger/OpenAPI tools to create comprehensive documentation for APIs, ensuring they are well-defined and accessible.
• System Integration: Work on integrating APIs with various third-party services and internal applications.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze and improve API performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, product managers, and QA testers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Code Review and Mentorship: Participate in code reviews, provide feedback, and mentor junior developers to promote best practices.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve technical issues related to APIs and backend services.
• Stay Current with Technology Trends: Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in C# .NET and API technologies to ensure the team uses the best tools and techniques.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years in API development with a focus on C# .NET.

Technical Skills:

• Proficient in C# .NET Framework/Core.
• Extensive experience with API design and RESTful services.
• Strong knowledge of Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
• Familiarity with ASP.NET Web API and Entity Framework.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Understanding of SQL Server and database design.

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure Cloud Services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary: Based on experience and industry standards.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities for training, conferences, and career advancement.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Options for remote work and flexible scheduling.

Backend Web Developer

 Our client operates from 18 cities across 13 countries. Our investment personnel manage US $247 billion across a wide range of global, regional and country-specific strategies - both traditional and alternative - in listed equity and fixed income. At Lazard Asset Management, we pride ourselves in balancing the feel of a small firm with the scale of a large global organization. Our entrepreneurial culture and flat management structure foster an environment in which good ideas can take flight, no matter where they come from.

Our client is looking for an innovative software engineer to join our IT department.  This individual will be working on the systems that support the global sales and marketing organization.  This role will be responsible for building and supporting the backend services and API’s used in all of the applications. This role requires a highly motivated, organized and experienced developer with pride of ownership reflected through clean design, code quality and a disciplined software development approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement middle-tier web applications, and RESTful services.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
• Support existing software with quick troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Be part of an empowered team following agile methodologies.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 5+ year’s applications development experience with full-stack development and agile frameworks.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and service-oriented design.
• Work effectively both as a contributing team member and independently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative problem solving with the ability to present multiple solutions and potential side effects.
• Fast paced programming mentality with quick turnaround.

Required Skills:

• Expertise with API creation and RESTful services.
• Expertise developing backend server components using Python, NodeJS, C#
• Expertise building micro service architecture.
• Experiencebuilding and supporting websites using CMS systems (Tridion, Drupal, AEM)
• Experience and proficiency with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase).
• Experience and proficiency with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra).

Desired Skills:

• Experience running services on container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider.
• Experience with Jira.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or TeamCity.
• Experience with CRM systems especially Salesforce is a plus.

Software Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge set to fetch data from multiple online sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it
• Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources on the web and know exactly how, when, and which data to scrap, parse and store
• We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Desired Candidate Profile

• At Least 1-2 years of experience
• Strong coding experience in Python (knowledge of Javascripts is a plus)
• Strong knowledge of scraping frameworks in Python (Request, Beautiful Soup)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge in Version Control tools like GIT.
• Good understanding and hands-on with scheduling and managing tasks with cron.

Nice to have:

• Experience of having worked with elastic search
• Experience with multi-processing, multi-threading, and AWS/Azure is a plus
• Experience with web crawling is a plus
• Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS,etc as well as cloud solutions like Docker,Lambda, etc
• Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience working in an IT environment
• Experience developing with C#, C++, or other object-oriented platforms
• 2+ years of web application development
• Skill for writing reusable libraries
• Hands-on experience in ASP.Net, MVC, Restful services, Web API
• Experience in .Net Web API
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
• Strong knowledge of C# programming
• Ability to troubleshoot problems independently. Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Strong Knowledge in Microsoft SQL Server scripts and Stored procedures
• Exposure to Agile Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Experience in Service-based architecture

5 years of architecture, design and programming experience preferably in fast-paced dynamic environment

Strong application design and implementation skills, solid understanding of the entire development cycle.

Strong background in Java/J2EE based application

Strong background in Spring/Spring boot based application

Strong background in Microservices based application

Experience working with Apache and/or Tomcat

Experience in transforming requirements to software design

Strong Experience with developing Java SAAS web applications.

Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth

Demonstrate strong design and programming skills using JSON, Web Services, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.

Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments.

Strong Shell scripting experience.

Working knowledge with Oracle, DB2 or MongoDB databases.

 Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.  Strong agile/scrum development experience

 Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• 7 years of hands-on experience on database development
• Very strong and hands-on in Oracle Database and PL/SQL development
• Hands on experience in designing solutions and developing for data migration projects using Oracle PL/SQL
• Experience with Oracle Argus Safety, ArisG and other Safety/Clinical systems
• Working experience in development of ETL process, DB Design and Data Structures
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, Tables, Views, Constraints, Index (B Tree, Bitmap and Function Based) , Object type, Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers, Dynamic SQL, Set transaction, pl/sql Cursor variables with Ref Cursor
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills