Senior Backend Engineer

Description
This engagement will begin with a 2-sprint (4 week discovery at the client’s offices located in the United States, with the possibility of follow-up onsite meetings for important milestones.
**Requirements**:
5+ years of experience using C#/.NET core
Entity Framework or any other ORM experience
Experience building integrations with 3rd party services is a must
Experience building solutions following the MVVM architecture pattern
Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD, preferably with Azure DevOps
Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills to facilitate collaborative problem solving amongst team members
Front End experience Blazor experience and devexpress Tailwind CSS desired MUI components desired
Experience with small teams that move fast - all members are expected to achieve maximum results with mínimal direction
Proven experience meeting software deliverable deadlines
Tools and Tech Stack
C#,.NET Core 8+, Azure DevOps, Dev Express or other grid controls, Active Directory authentication, Nuget packages. Blazor (highly desirable
You are an Agile Team Member
Job #1 is to be part of a self-organizing team - a team that solves complex challenges and builds working software. Being a good team member means you contribute to it’s success by:
Collaborating with your PO to groom backlog and break down stories into small functional slices
Maintaining an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness.
Impressing responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks.
Practicing positive interactions - lean on encouragement in place of judgment.
Being open to new ideas and encouraging innovative practices amongst peers
Actively working on broadening or adding a skill
Asking for assistance when problems become challenging
Balancing best practice decisions with delivering high business value (right vs right now
Delivers stories/tasks that are committed” within a timebox
You are also a Product Developer
The Product Developer is focused on delivering a quality and timely product. They contribute to the development of large and small-scale solutions that enable the business by building software that is in compliance with what” needs to be done (stories and how” they are constrained (frameworks, patterns and practices.
Principal Accountability | Technical Sprint Planning
Understands and collaborates with the Principal Engineer to adhere to solution level design Principal Accountability | Software Development
Active member of a product team that solves complex challenges and builds working software
Develops with an awareness for team members needs
Produces high quality code and is a dependable resource for peers
Keeps development tasks updated (time remaining to provide insight into risk/complexity
Learns to develop code in small chunks and checks in code (at minimum daily
Contributes to merge up/down through development process
Carries out root cause analysis on defects to ensure fixes are happening in the right way Principal Accountability | Quality Control
Practices unit test development with a focus on increasing code coverage sprint over sprint
Reviews code of other team members as a generally accepted practice
Addresses technical debt constantly - escalating when it becomes risky to time or quality
Proactively reaches out to the team to discuss scope of impact” of code changes
Balances the velocity of development tasks with those of testing tasks (lean concept Principal Accountability | Release Activities
Adheres to a well-defined code promotion process
Resolves defects in a timely and effective manner
Identifies tactical risks and raises/resolves issues effectively.
Creates deployment documentation that outlines WHERE & WHAT? Principal Accountability | Community
Takes communities of practice (book club, studies seriously through active engagement
5 years