Senior Fullstack .Net Application Engineer- 12 Month daily rate contract

About the Company

My client is a world leading SaaS company offering revolutionary technology which automates and optimises transport throughout the globe. They combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

About the Position

You will be responsible for engineering and maintaining features and components across our backend systems and web / mobile application stack, in support of our award winning SAAS Fleet Management products. You’ll work as part of a cross-functional squad of software engineers, UX designers, QA engineers, and product owners, using agile methodologies to design and own applications that help our customers achieve good outcomes, and use feedback from these customers to extend and improve these applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in product feature implementation, both independently and in cooperation with your team

• Implement changes and new features in a manner which promotes efficient, reusable and performant code

• Liaise with product stakeholders and other teams in the organization to complete the projects on time and to the highest quality standards

• Participate in peer code reviews, manage criteria applied during code reviews

• Investigate technical issues during the full development lifecycle, including specific components in production

• Provide level of effort estimations for individual and team assignments

• Coach and mentor less experienced members of the team

• Work with solution architects to define highly detailed specifications for technical solutions

• help shaping the team's culture and work rhythm, including the development of best practices within the team

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant discipline or six or more years of work experience. (mandatory)

• Six or more years of relevant work experience in software development. (mandatory)

• Passion about technology and willingness to learn and share knowledge.

• The ability to approach complex problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation, and the drive to get stuck into solving them until the solution can be delivered to the customer

• The willingness to take ownership of projects and own them from inception to completion

• Knowledge and experience in sound design principles, engineering best practices, and Agile development methodologies

• The ability to mentor and help junior team members with improving their engineering skills and Agile development methodologies

• A strong customer focus and drive to create best-of-class products with an outstanding user experience

• The ability to anticipate problems and take decisive action, giving regard to the impact on other project teams, development partners and stakeholders

• Demonstrated delivery of major projects with a focus on quality and productivity in a continuous integration/delivery environment

• Good verbal and written communication skills working within a geographically distributed development team

• Experience developing scalable microservice architectures

• Exposure to distributed caching frameworks (e.g Redis, Memcached) and messaging frameworks (e.g. Kinesis, RabbitMQ)

• Knowledge of the .Net ecosystem (Framework and Core) and C#

• Experience writing automated unit and end-to-end tests

• Experience with GIT or other revision control system

• Experience working with relational (SQL Server, Postgres etc) and NoSQL (Redis, Dynamo, etc) databases

• Angular experience

• A demonstrated ability to lead and /or guide a team

• Strong AWS knowledge with experience developing and deploying serverless and non serverless applications to AWS

• Experience with low level data structure and algorithm design

• Experience with TDD and/or BDD

• Experience with ELK Stack added advantage

• Enthusiasm for the revolution that’s happening in transportation