Lead Application Developer - Backend / API

Experis
Seattle-tacoma, WA
22 Mar 2025

Vacancy expired!

Team culture:

  • 5 partners on team
  • DevOps centric group- team does it all
  • Weekly pager rotation
  • Responsibly for building, testing, and deployment

Key projects:

  • Digital gifting

Purpose of this team: Customer Acquisition

Daily schedule:

Designs and develops microservices using REST principles. Troubleshoots and debugs APIs across service boundaries. Act as a leader and subject matter expert for APIs in our domain. Collaborates with partner teams across the company. Writes clear, concise, and testable code. Develops unit, integration, and load tests for new code. Automates deployments via CI/CD pipelines. Creates and maintains existing alerts and dashboards. Operates in full stack Devops team environment with on call shift rotation. Contributes meaningful feedback in peer code reviews. Mentors junior developers.

Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in C#, ASP.NET, and Web API.
  • 2+ years .NET Core.
  • 2+ years of experience developing and operating services in one or more of the major cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform. Azure preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to own the implementation and delivery of large features with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ Azure experience with Cosmos DB, App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Event Hub.
  • 2+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, RESTful services, and associated performance and security best practices.
  • Experience with "breaking the monolith" and uplifting existing services from on-prem to cloud strongly preferred.
  • 2+ years of experience in CI/CD automation, infrastructure ownership, monitoring and alerting configuration.
  • Experience operating in a 24x7 production environment.
  • Go experience a nice to have.
  • A passion for quality, attention to detail, and initiative to do the right thing.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively
  • Ability to prioritize what is important and work in a fast-paced environment and deliver on time
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to think creatively
  • Ability to learn new technology and business processes
  • Ability to analyze problems and provide solutions

Top Candidate Skills 1 Azure experience with Cosmos DB, App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Event Hub. 7+ years 2 Microservices 7+ years 3 Experience in C#, ASP.NET, and Web API 7+ years
  • ID: #49520655
  • State: Washington Seattle-tacoma 98141 Seattle-tacoma USA
  • City: Seattle-tacoma
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-03-22
  • Deadline: 2023-05-20
  • Category: Et cetera