Job summary

Our client is looking for a Principal Software Developer to join them.

£90-100k.

2-3 days on site (Biggin Hill)

Must be able to travel internationally when required.

Key skills required for this role

.Net, C#, Linq, MVVM, TPL, MVVM, DI, CQRS, Multi threaded Environments

Important

Principal Software Developer .Net

Job description

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to the development of new and innovate products as part of a small team.

• Mentor and/or lead a small group of software developers.

• Lead technical projects spanning multiple domains.

• Contribute to the design of modern software architecture in alignment with our mission.

• Develop an understanding of all systems and be willing to assist with bug fixing, development or testing across the entire environment.

• Ensure that development is rigorous and conforms to the process requirements of the business.

• Ensure code is of the highest quality including commenting, unit testing and documentation.

• Participate in group activities such as demonstrations, design reviews, requirement exploration, system architecting, etc.

• Develop a broad skill set covering all aspects of the companies software environment as well as a defined area of specialisation (T-shaped).

• Must be able to work flexible hours as needed to support project time lines and deliver efforts on time.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science (or related technical discipline) or equivalent commercial experience.

Experience

• Considerable (>5yrs) experience in a software development environment using .Net based development tools.

• Experience with developing / supporting distributed event-based architectures built around message buses and event streams e.g., Kafka / ActiveMq / RabbitMq / SQS.

• Experience with consuming and processing high frequency data in a real-time / near real-time environment.

• 2+ years of experience with Amazon AWS services like Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB.

• 2+ years working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (Currently 2016).

• You have experience with NoSQL Databases such as Mongo / DocumentDB.

Knowledge & Skills

• You have strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate, report and converse effectively.

• You have considerable Full-stack experience with .Net development using C#.

• You are well versed in Object Oriented programming concepts and patterns such as MVVM / DI / CQRS.

• You have experience working with asynchronous and multi-threaded environments such as TPL.

• You are well versed in Pub/Sub type mechanisms and their implementation using .Net.

• Fluent working knowledge of Linq and associated functional programming practices in the C# environment.

• You have experience with microservice architectures and containerization (Docker / Kubernetes).

• Proven experience of designing, developing and maintaining Relational Databases (ideally MSSQL).

• Experience writing and maintaining Unit, integration, E2E and regression tests and test suites.

• You have experience working with application metrics & monitoring with tools such as Prometheus / Grafana / Cloudwatch.

• You are familiar with code source control such as GIT.

• You have a good understanding of CI/CD practices.

• You understand AGILE development philosophies.