Backend Developer

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented Backend Developer to join a dynamic team. As a Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and supporting headless services within a multi-tiered platform in an exciting and growing company. You will work closely with a dedicated backend team, contributing to the development of high-throughput, low-latency trading and ancillary services. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to be part of an ongoing evolution towards modern containerized and cloud-ready solutions.

Office Details:

Located in Dublin City Centre. You will be required to work 3 days per week on site.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and develop holistic solutions to be delivered across our sprint delivery model.
• Provide accurate estimates for implementing assigned features/functions within the agreed sprint timeline.
• Implement assigned aspects of the solution following a Test Driven Development approach.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of solutions.
• Assist in the maintenance, tuning, and issue resolution of production services.
• Contribute to development best practices, environment maintenance, and tool selection.
• Collaborate with 3rd party service providers and integrations when necessary.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team or autonomously.
• Contribute and support development process definition, evaluation, rollout, and enforcement.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to quickly grasp complex scenarios and make critical judgments.
• Documentation of technical solutions, processes, and usage of tools.

Experience Required

• Agile sprint-scrum based software delivery pipeline.
• C#, .NET, .NET Core (v5+ beneficial).
• tSQL/SQLServer v2014+.
• Web Services (ASMX, WCF, RESTful).
• Windows Services.
• ASP.NET Core containerized applications.
• Visual Studio 2017+ (with NUnit, productivity/refactoring plugins e.g., Resharper).
• Experience in TDD, SOLID development principles, and mocking frameworks.
• Software version control tooling (e.g., git).
• Project/team collaboration tooling (JIRA beneficial).

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Containerization experience using Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.
• Experience with messaging protocols/frameworks (Kafka beneficial).
• Experience/knowledge of various programming paradigms, cloud design patterns, low latency, high concurrency, publish/subscribe model, etc.
• Continuous Integration tooling (e.g., TeamCity, Jenkins).
• Deployments into IIS and Windows Cluster Manager environments.
• Exposure to cloudification of services, migration to the cloud, and maintenance/support.
• Experience with public cloud services (Azure and/or AWS) and deployments.
• Proficiency in a second scripting/coding language (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Java).
• Continuous Delivery experience/exposure (e.g., TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Octopus).
• Environment configuration management tooling (e.g., PowerShell DSC, Chef, Puppet).

Educational Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computing or related field (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Engineering).

Working Hours & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working options
• Flexible working hours
• Health insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Training and professional development opportunities