Job Purpose

We are looking for a backend developer with a solid grounding in Object Oriented Design and

programming, with 5+ years’ experience working with Microsoft technologies within the .NET

framework.

The candidate should have substantial experience developing and maintaining scalable, robust,

high performance enterprise solutions, using SOA and Test-Driven Methodologies in an Agile

environment, ideally across a range of different clients and systems.

Candidates must possess strong organizational and interpersonal skills to manage and complete

multiple tasks quickly within the constraints of agreed timelines and budgets.

Role & Responsibility

• Collect requirements/specifications from internal and external stake-holders
• Clarifying what actions the program is intended to perform
• Breaking down program specification into its simplest elements and translating this logic into code
• Working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project, to write a specific section of the program
• Combining all elements of the program design and testing it
• Prepare test cases and for unit testing and integration testing
• Ensuring the quality of applications through unit testing
• Testing sample data-sets to check that output from the program works as intended
• Follow coding standards and properly documenting code
• Perform and participate in code reviews to identify basic technical and logical errors
• Deploying the program into production
• Accurately estimate times for tasks
• Reacting to problems and correcting the program as necessary
• Evaluating and increasing the program's effectiveness
• Adapting the program to new requirements, as necessary
• Conducting user acceptance testing to ensure the program can be used easily, quickly and

accurately

• Schedule meetings with management and/or customers to demonstrate progress and discuss project status and issues
• Scaling an application and/or its hosting environment to support increases in traffic.
• Setting up or using a version control system, and manage control with file based assets and data
• Writing detailed documentation for the operation of the program by users and computer operators accurately estimate times for tasks 

Qualification & Skills Requirements

Core Skills (Mandatory)

• 5+ years of C#
• .NET 4.0/4.5
• 5+ years of SQL Server
• 2+ years of Cloud services, ideally Windows Azure
• Web API, Restful services
• Experience with nHibernate or Entity Framework
• Design patterns, SOLID principles, N-tier architectures
• Solid process understanding - AGILE, SCRUM, TDD

Desirable Skills

• Front end - Javascript, angular.js, HTML5, CSS3
• Hadoop/HDInsight
• Apache Spark

Essential Personal Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal - able to communicate effectively with

peers, managers, and clients

• Ability to deliver development to an agreed plan
• Positive attitude and desire to learn