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The Job

• This role will be part of an agile development environment, creating enterprise-grade software systems, and advancing our technology strategy.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Collaborate with other architects, software developers, business analysts to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web and desktop-based business applications
• Assist in the estimations of stories and delivery plans
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
•  Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
• Analyze and resolve technical and application issues
• Assess opportunities for technology, infrastructure, application, and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products
• Maintains expertise and champions a set of core technologies
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery

Core Competency Requirements

• Proficient with Microsoft .NET 4.7+ /.Net Core development using C#
• Proficient in Web technologies such as Angular
• In-depth knowledge and experience with core Microsoft .Net technologies such as WCF, WPF, WF, LINQ, and EF
• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise-grade software
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling, and optimization
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
• Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Experience with database development including relational database design, SQL, and ORM technologies