RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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