Overview

Lead Backend Software Engineer (.NET) at Strada

London, United Kingdom (hybrid/onsite information not specified in original description).

Responsibilities

• Be a development team member of an Agile team and participate in all Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review and demo, sprint retrospective, and refinement sessions.
• Provide task overview and impediment status for your work, help resolve impediments, and support the team as needed.
• Contribute to estimations, plan upcoming sprints, and keep tasks and stories up to date with demonstrations of working software.
• Document requirements and designs, ensure compliance with SDLC and security practices, and deliver complete deployment instructions and release notes as part of the definition of done.
• As a developer, write performant, stable, and maintainable code respecting design patterns (SOLID, DRY) and participate in code reviews and documentation in the technical wiki.
• Collaborate with team members to operate as one team; as a Lead Specialist, own the technical solution for a strategic module—the payroll calculation engine—and guide other engineers with best practices and technical challenges.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience with C# and strong coding and unit testing abilities (C#, LINQ, SQL).
• Very good knowledge of .NET Frameworks (e.g., Entity Framework).
• Experience with databases (MySQL, Oracle, Azure SQL Server, MongoDB, Cosmos DB).
• Willingness and ability to work independently as part of a global virtual team; analytical skills and ability to create quality documentation.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is an asset.
• Experience in writing/understanding/challenging Technical Designs; knowledge of development best practices (SOLID, DRY, Security First, TDD).
• Proficiency with Git and experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tools (Jira).
• Excellent team player and ability to collaborate with frontend developers.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for health, wellbeing, retirement, and education, including a variety of health coverage options, maternity/paternity & adoption leave, and other voluntary benefits. Background checks may be required as part of the offer process. Strada is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified applicants with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, and observances, unless it causes undue hardship.

Employment details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting