Senior Software Developer

The Senior Software Developer will contribute to the development and continuous modernization of our client’s core logistics operations management system. Core responsibilities will include:

• Deeply committed to continuous improvement, refactoring, TDD and pair programming to achieve technical excellence and understand how this supports long-term customer value.
• Understand how to work and lead in agile teams, with incremental and iterative development as key to deal with uncertainty and maintain flow.
• Work directly with end-users, business analysts and quality assurance, playing an active role in planning and user story development.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to software development team peers.
• Collaborate with colleagues (including vendor teams) on improving skills and practices.
• Develop user stories to meet user needs.
• Contribute to planning meetings, working with BA and QA as necessary to question, refine and size user stories to enable them for development.
• Understand the importance of code refactoring (and when and how to apply it) to maintain system quality.
• Limited travel for regular team meet-ups

Top skills you need to have:

• 8+ years’ experience in C#.NET (Framework 4.x or Core/Standard), ideally in more than one company.
• 8+ years’ experience in related industry – Logistics would be ideal but platform-heavy businesses such as Retail/Banking/Insurance are also relevant.
• MAUI mobile experience a huge plus
• Agile mindset & XP development practices: Refactoring, Pair programming, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Evolutionary System Architecture
• Experience in designing and building software systems using object-oriented and event-driven approaches in a domain-driven design paradigm.
• Experience with enterprise-level ASP.NET MVC5 sites hosted on IIS.
• Strong use of git.
• Experience and comfort with how to effectively use ORM.
  • Fluent NHibernate would be best, but Entity Framework would also apply.
• Strong experience and comfort with use of LINQ.
• An innovator, looking and promoting your ideas for ways to improve both technology and process.
• Work well in a self-managing team, building agreement and helping everyone to perform well together.
• Flexible attitude and able to embrace rapid change.
• A team player with high standards, including collaboration with vendor teams.
• Good communicator able to work well with users and senior management in one’s business.
• Ability to remain calm and focused and prioritize competing demands.

Preferred skills:

• Blazor WebAssembly
• MassTransit
• Use of Specflow for BDD
• Experience in continuously modernizing a system while maintaining true 24/7/365 system availability (Clinical Trials do not stop for weekends or even holiday seasons!)
• Experience in using Azure Microsoft Cloud offering.
• Experience of use of Azure DevOps for managing development, deployment, etc.
  • In particular, setting up and maintaining development and deployment pipelines from Azure Devops into Azure Cloud.
• Experience in using FRP (Functional Reactive Programming)
  • In particular, use of Rx

Nice to Have:

• SQL Server (in particular 2016 and later)
• RabbitMQ
• Javascript & JQuery
• Experience of building mobile apps Xamarin or MAUI
• Experience of using Telerik UI components