Senior .Net Developer at Bluegrass Digital

WHAT WE DO?

We develop medium to enterprise web and mobile applications. We work with CMS platforms like Umbraco, Optimizely, and WordPress, as well as creating custom SaaS applications. We develop on both the Microsoft stack and Open Source stack using Azure, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, React, React Native, Xamarin, Angular, NodeJS, and RESTful API’s building lightweight modern applications.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We're looking for a capable Senior .NET / Full Stack software develope who is energetic and passionate about using the latest technologies, and eager to grow by working on web and mobile software applications, custom software apps, API integrations and more. You will work on some big brand names, some small brand names, and start-ups building some cool projects and having fun along the way. You must be passionate about delivering performant code and following coding best practice standards. You should be excited by the prospect of architecting challenging new projects, whilst fine tuning and maintaining existing projects. You must have strong problem-solving logic and architectural knowledge to craft web and mobile platforms. You must be willing to learn new skills and participate in team innovation and knowledge sharing and prepared to take on any challenge and have a problem-solving attitude.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Minimum of 6+ years' experience in Microsoft .Net, .Net Core, C#
• Excellent experience using JavaScript / Web API / Razor / JSON
• Good Frontend skills and working with HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS
• Good knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, Typescript)
• Good database and server-side application skills with Azure, SQL / NoSQL (Cosmos)
• Cloud Hosting platform experience - Azure App Services and Application development and Azure DevOps experience is very advantageous
• Experience in developing/maintaining Content Management Systems - Umbraco, Optimizely CMS very advantageous
• Excellent understanding of stored procedures and database design/normalization
• Excellent understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies
• Event driven architectures and approaches
• Excellent understanding of SOLID principles and best practices to follow within development
• Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
• Gather customer software requirements and develop related software applications and programs (to spec)
  
• Good application performance optimization strategies and techniques
• Good knowledge of object orientated concepts
• Experience in system integration techniques
• Experience interfacing with clients, understanding client business strategies and how to deliver these within applications you architect
• Communicating at a management level. Speaking with authority and lucidity to clients and team members
• Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies
• Experience using project management tools like Jira
• Happy to mentor and grow self-motivated less experienced team members
• Team player and not afraid of a bit of hard-work and fun with colleagues

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interact with business users, business analysts and other developers to understand new requirements
• Write technical specifications and develop new functionality to company standards and deadlines
• Participate in design and planning sessions
• Architect, develop, test and support web and mobile applications
• Provide accurate cost estimates
• Research and evaluate software related technologies and products
• Implement and ensure development best practices, and programming standards are adhered to across your projects
  
• Continuously improve development processes and libraries for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
• Code audits and pull request reviews
  
• Assist and support other team members on their projects (if required)
• Interact with clients to determine their requirements and needs

YOUR BEHAVIOURS

• You set a high bar for yourself and your team’s engineering skills
• You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
• You provide technical leadership and mentor more junior engineers
• You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment
• You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across existing applications
• You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch
• You continuously deliver improvements to a project solution
  
• You have solid analytical and problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail
• You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies

WHO WORKS AT BLUEGRASS?

Code lovers and geeks with interesting hobby projects. They are collaborators and enjoy contributing to communities. They like to exceed expectations, want to learn and improve through doing great work experience & achieving results. Honest, ethical, punctual and professional with a sense of humor! Technical thinkers that can communicate well with both clients, internal teams and non-techies.