Title:  Sr. .Net Developer (.Net 4.5+/C#)

Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies, to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project based work.

Job Description

The Lead Specialist – .NET Development is an experienced .NET developer targeting the .NET 4.5+ platform and C#.  As a senior specialist, you are responsible for mentoring a highly talented team of developers, leading by example and working with the Solution/Lead Architect and other team leads to design solutions, select libraries and frameworks as well as establish best-practices for global solutions.  Expertise in the .NET Framework and design patterns as well as knowledge of libraries and frameworks is extremely important.

Notes from the Manager

Here is a little more insight on some skills that in addition to the aforementioned skills will help your candidate be successful.

• Comfortable working with different languages and researching their exploits.
• Have general understanding of different coding techniques.
• Have ability to analyze and research different issues and plan, document and implement solutions.
• Comfortable delegating tasks to achieve deadlines.
• Peer reviewing code.

Responsibilities

(60%) Development

• Work with the team to develop next-generation commerce applications using .NET, C# and SQL. Responsible for segments or phases of broader and more complex aspects of projects with a global focus on development.
• Understand, identify and implement reusable code in an object oriented fashion.
• Apply advanced object-oriented and service-oriented design skills when implementing features
• Rapidly prototype new ideas and concepts.
• Lead the transition of developed applications and systems into testing and production phases for all front end web development work.
• Support all production applications that the team is responsible for developing.
• Maintain the release management cycle as well as the software development environments
• Analyze and recommend solutions to programming issues, defects and bugs as assigned or encountered.
• Keep in touch with the latest .NET technology and service-oriented techniques and continues to develop his/her technical skills.
• Collaborate with the project team and is willing to be flexible to achieve team goals.
• Ownership mentality while maintaining a team focus
• Learn and employ knowledge of the business segment targeted by the software application.
• Work with support personnel to ensure they have a clear understanding of existing or upcoming functionality, prior to it being deployed/rolled-out.

(10%) Mentorship

• Develop, mentor, train and support the team of highly talented developers.
• Follow industry standards, patterns and best practices for service and .NET development in implementing business logic.
• Create development standards to be used by the development team.
• Responsible for service architecture decisions to ensure well thought out design and conceptualization, taking into account the suggestions and priorities of the solution architecture.
• Work closely with the team to ensure they are effectively writing, modifying and debugging solution code.
• Review code and perform an adequate level of unit, functional and integrated testing to ensure quality standards are attained.
• Check work for acceptability and conformance with standards.
• Assist team lead in building, deploying and releasing application builds.

(30%) Planning, Design & Architecture

• Analyze the functional requirements and designs and implement them into software modules, clarify scope and breadth of work tasks with business analysts and product managers.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, standup and status meetings as appropriate.
• Assist other developers in producing the relevant artifacts for the project.
• Identify product or process related development issues and provide constructive feedback to the Manager of Development as well as the Technical Delivery Manager.
• Translate the detail design to perform programming tasks to complete the project as required with some supervision.
• Schedule, organize and complete work in accordance with deadlines.

Qualifications

• Expert in developing efficient, service-oriented applications, with in-depth knowledge of HTTP, REST and JSON.  Experience with JSON+API is a plus.
• Experience with ASP.NET Web API, Caste Windsor and NHibernate, or similar, are required.
• Experience with event-driven/message-based, service-oriented development.
• Solid foundation in computer science, with competencies in design patterns, data structures, algorithms and software design.
• Software development and testing experience using .NET, C# and SQL.
• Prior exposure to messaging platforms such as message brokers and service busses as well as protocols like AMQP and MQTT.
• Basic understanding of security standards such as OAuth, SAML and WS-Security.
• Experience with large systems software design, development, deployment and support.
• International software development experience (multi-lingual, multi-currency, geographic and locale awareness) a plus.
• 10+ years of experience developing using.NET technologies. Experience developing application with Java is a plus.
• 10+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server development a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, computer engineering or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of such platforms as Windows, UNIX, and Linux.
• Proficient at using code profiling and debugging tools.
• Understanding of different phases of software development life cycle.
• Passion for learning new or evolving technologies.
• Strong conceptual thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills with both non-technical & technical co-workers.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

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