Identify and define solutions to business requirements and deliver state-of-the-art implementations in the form of application design, development and support
Design, code, upgrade, test (incl. automated unit & performance testing), debug, document, integrate and maintain applications, application components and common services adhering to our SDLC best practices and guidelines
Make use of application design, development and maintenance standards including the use of standard languages and tools
Develop productivity skills by l earning source control, editors, the build system, and other tools as well as testing best practices
Understand and practice Agile software development
Participate in business analysis, systems analysis/consulting, and systems design
Provide advice, guidance, training and support to junior developers, business and information technology users, business partners, vendors and management
Lead technical discussions about architecture, infrastructure and frameworks and drive effective technical decisions covering their areas of responsibility
Establish intensive communication and good relationship with the team members and stakeholders, empower the team, lead by example and contribute to others’ and own career development
Promote the company culture, enforce the company standards and support the modernization and expansion processes
CORE REQUIREMENTS:
Excellent verbal & written skills to interact, build and maintain effective relationships with peers in both English and Bulgarian. This also includes communication channels like email, chat, scrum boards, wiki pages etc.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and programming skills, with high responsibility and care of the details
Ability to identify and isolate problem areas within the entire application flow and to investigate the root cause and implement solutions.
Self-organized, working well independently and in a geographically diverse team environment.
Initiative person with a positive mindset, creative thinking, adaptive to workflow changes and with a strive to keep his/her expertise up-to-date
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
Windows developer with 4+ years of experience building high-performance client/server and web applications.
Strong experience with Microsoft .NET/C# software development (3+ years), and technologies such as UWP, XAML, Win32 API and MSMQ.
Strong experience in RESTful API design, develop & support
Strong experience with JSON and XML data interchange formats. XSL and XSLT are a plus.
Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server (3 years), including experience with stored procedures, triggers, functions, and TSQL. Knowledge of transactions, ACID compliance and data normalization.
Strong Object Oriented Design and Programming skills for designing, building and maintaining clean, readable, efficient, reusable, and reliable C# code
Hands-on application troubleshooting and debugging skills, including using tools such as, Visual Studio debugger and Windows Event Viewer.
Experience with multi-process, multithreaded development in a Windows environment.
DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
Experience with PowerShell
Experience porting .NET applications to .NET Core Network programming with TCP/IP sockets. Understands how to use tools such as tcpdump and WireShark.
Experience in migrating legacy physical systems to the Amazon Cloud (AWS)
Experience with current development technologies, methodologies and workflows including CI/CD, Agile development (Scrum, JIRA), Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, BDD, Docker and microservices
Experience writing unit, functional, performance, soak and stress tests. Knowledge of Cucumber is a plus
Experience developing secure applications (OWASP Top 10)
Experience with encryption and compression techniques
Experience with administering and deploying web applications and APIs to IIS
Experience with Log4Net or Serilog
Experience with developing and deploying and configuring Windows Services and WCF Services
Experience in Linux-based systems
Accomplishments working on l arge-scale projects with diverse stakeholders and with cross-functional teams