Lead .net Software Engineer

Job Location: hybrid in Bucharest

Recruitment process:

• Tech interview
• Cultural discussion
• Management + tech interview

Role description:

Our client is a global leader in maritime services, providing port agency, marine services, and digital solutions to optimize shipping operations. With a presence in over 60 countries, it enhances efficiency, safety, and sustainability for shipping companies, delivering expert logistics and support across the global supply chain.

Role description:

Job Purpose: To analyze business requirements and design, develop, test, and deliver high quality software systems exceeding business expectations. Seeing through requirements from conception to finished product.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and mentor development team members, providing technical direction and fostering professional growth.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between development teams and business stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment on project goals.
• Drive the adoption of modern development tools, methodologies, and technologies, continuously improving the teams effectiveness and product quality.
• Review and understand business requirements prioritized by product management team
• Review and understand enterprise & solution architectures, design server-side architecture, design implementation of new features end-to-end considering both functional & non-functional requirements and the entire tech stack backend, database, middleware, AWS, and DevOps. 
• Effectively contribute to product backlog grooming sessions and provide realistic work break down and effort estimations to build features and applications.
• Develop high quality, secure and maintainable applications by demonstrating growth mindset, fully implementing Agile & DevOps development principles
• Carryout unit testing and automated test scripts (when required) with familiarity of leading testing tools and frameworks to achieve highest possible test coverage
• Coordinate with testing team for efficient integration testing of the developed modules with a clear mandate to follow shift-left testing principles to contain defects at the source
• Develop SoP for technical and business users to ensure a smooth transition from software development to production operations
• Coordinate with production support team for efficient monitoring, issue analysis, and resolution with a clear mandate to enhance end user experience 
• Participate in code review and improve the code with current market's best practices
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring optimal system performance and user experience.
• Practice DevOps with automation first mindset, with excellent understanding of branching strategies, best coding and testing practices, build management, CI/CD pipeline management, telemetry and observability requirements to enhance production support experience 
• Conduct lessons learned session with team member and spread the knowledge

Profile: 

• C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Web API, Entity Framework
• Relational databases such as Postgres SQL, SQL Server or Oracle
• Message brokers such as RabbitMQ or similar technologies (e.g., ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka) 
• Front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and experience with Reactor similar frameworks are a plus. 
• AWS or other cloud-based platform development using for ex: EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Queue Service- SQS, SNS etc.
• Scripting languages preferably PowerShell
• Unit testing tools & frameworks like NUnit and Mock
• Containerization and deployment: Docker, K8s 
• Agile product management tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• DevOps tools like Sonar Cloud, Team City/Jenkins Git proficiency
• Leading and managing development teams, including delegating tasks, setting technical direction, and mentoring team members.
• Proficient verbal & written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Strong collaborative and partner approach
• Software engineering skills with high tech resilience
• Experience overseeing multiple projects/tasks simultaneously while maintaining adherence to quality standards and deadlines.

Other Requirements:

• Able to work in a hybrid with at least 3 days from office.
• Ability to travel (national and international) and work flexibility.