Senior Software Engineer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop high-quality software design and architecture

• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

• Review and debug code

• Perform validation and verification testing

• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products

• Document development phases and monitor systems

• Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Technology OR a Master’s degree in Science/Computer Applications. Certifications in key technology skills are a plus.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Should be a professional with a minimum of 5 years' hands-on development experience on .NET

• Should have considerable experience in working on React, JavaScript, Microservices, SQL, Google Captcha and Agile Lifecycle tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Core Technical Competencies:

• Have crystal-clear, concise and effective communication skills

• Possess very strong OOPS and OOD Skills

• Possess very strong Pure JavaScript skills

• Have worked on at least one of the many Open Source web development frameworks such as Angular, React, Knockout, etc.

• Possess the design and analytical skills to help design superlative applications

• Have worked closely with Application Design and Technical Architecture teams/professionals and must have understood development lifecycles (Product Development Environment is a bonus)

• Have worked closely with Project/Program Management teams and must have understood development methodologies such as SCRUM/Agile

• Have a strong understanding of Information security, protocols and libraries

• Possess work experience with Cloud based applications on one or more Cloud Provider

• Be open to work as an individual contributor as well as in a team

Good to have Competencies/Skills (Not mandatory):

• Serverless Computing using Microsoft Azure Functions or Amazon AWS Lambda or Google Firebase Functions

• Possess Microservices experience, exposure to Azure Service Fabric and Reverse Proxies

• Containerized development with Docker or Kubernetes

• Realtime Queuing and messaging frameworks such as MSMQ, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Azure Service Hub, Mulesoft ESB, Google Firebase Realtime Database, etc.

Platform Skills:

• Consider yourself well-versed with concepts such as Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection, GoF and other Design Patterns, Reactive Programming

• Are familiar with testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing and behavior testing. Experience with tools such as MSTest, NUnit, Moq, CucumberJS, is helpful

• Possess good SQL Skills (Queries, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers). Exposure to NOSQL databases is a plus.

• Consider yourself a high value application/product development professional with skills in/exposure to the following skills:

Protocols and Architecture:

Exposure to SOAP / REST based Services is a must.

Design Patterns:

• Well-versed with MVC architectural pattern. Exposure to MVP/MVVM is a plus

• Experience using Design Patterns viz., Factory, Abstract Factory, Unit of Work, Singleton, Decorator, Prototype, Builder, Observer, and others

• Reactive Programming using RxJava (Java)

DevOps:

• CI/CD using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services to create pipelines for Build      and Deploy

• Any other DevOps tool such as GitLab-CI, Jenkins, GIT, etc.

• Strong working knowledge of GIT is preferred, especially knowledge around different branching strategies

Other Tools/Approaches:

• Wide experience in working with different design approaches - Data First, Code First, Model First approaches

• Microsoft Enterprise Library 6.0

• Extremely well-versed with LINQ to SQL, Lambda expressions, Extension Methods to Collections and Generics

• Object-Relational Mapping frameworks - NHibernate, Microsoft Entity Framework, LINQ, etc.

Leadership Skills:

• Consider yourself as being a role-model for others with lesser experience and exposure

• Are a very good listener and you consider solutions/ideas offered by others sportively

• Are not afraid of failure and can start all over again