Tech Lead

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.

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the Backend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance 
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns. 
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

NET Profile 

DESIRED SKILLS

·         Experience in Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dot Net, C#, http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET, MVC, Microsoft SQL, .NET Core, Web API, WCF, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular JS, Web API, Web services, Rest API)

·         Design a complex architecture landscape involving API integrations.

·         Hands-on experience in ASP.Net, C#, MVC, WCF, Restful services, Web API, AngularJS, Entity Framework

·         Strong analytical & problem-solving skills

·         Must have excellent oral & email communication skills.

·         Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

·         Must have a positive attitude and a yearning to get things done and demonstrate ownership of deliverables.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

·         Knowledge in Microsoft Azure.

·         Good Command on Agile Development & Azure DevOps.

·         Knowledge in Angular / React / Node JS

·       Mainly they are looking for:

C#

http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET MVC,

AJAX,

LINQ,

jQuery,

WebApi.

Duties and responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain simple to complex .net applications  
•  Deliver the quality code, on time  
•  Participate in agile development process to ensure project deliverables are met, on time and of high quality  
•  The quality and completeness of assignments, including initial design, development, bug fixing, quality engineering, documentation, and general product maintenance  
•  To understand specification document and perform coding as per the design and standards & guide lines which are defined by Immediate Lead/Manager  
• Doing impact analysis and resolving in-process problems independently, or with minor input from the senior engineering /technical lead Skills and Experience  

Skills  

• Minimum 3 years of Experience in .Net Framework, C#,ASP.Net,  
• In depth knowledge and experience with web development technologies including ASP.NET, Web API  
•  Have strong concepts of OOPS, Database(T-SQL) Programming  
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills