Lead Sr Software Engineer

Description

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• Very proficient in the C# .NET ecosystem with significant experience with server-side development.

• Ability to design and code APIs conforming to the OPEN API 3.0 standard. Solid understanding of RESTful API development and experience with JSON, SOAP, or XML based request/response required.

• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and security compliance between environments, servers, and other services.

• Experienced with backend databases and proficiency in SQL.

• Scrum master experience. Led projects or teams in the past

• Prior experience designing and building distributed microservices architecture for the enterprise at scale. Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and creatively. Independent thinking.

• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders in different time zones. No egos, team player.

• Git/GitHub or any other distributed version control systems.

Bonus points (Nice to Have):

• You are located close by to Ottawa, Canada.

• SMTP related integration or component development

• Agile development, JIRA, and Confluence.

• Experience with AWS/Cloud technologies.

• Hands-on experience with messaging queue systems (e.g.: RabbitMQ/Kafka).

• Experience building, troubleshooting, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with observability and instrumentation tooling.

Responsibilities:

• With the guidance of our Product team, you will design and develop the new generation APIs for our SaaS product, built for resiliency and scalability.

• You will improve and refactor existing API endpoints while also building new ones.

• You will improve the reliability of our API through code unit testing and guidance on end-to-end testing (both manual and automated)

• You will understand and solve integration needs between numerous applications, data sources and services in our ecosystem.

• You will be a champion of our API offering and represent engineering with the downstream groups (Operations and Customer support)