Principal Software Engineer

Description

• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based applications for clients; report to the Sr. Director App Modernization Practice

• Provide technical support and innovative cloud solutions by designing, architecting, maintaining, and operationalizing cloud-based web applications with .NET centric architectures

• Design new software solutions for critical business needs and set architectural direction for .NET based projects

• Evaluate, test, design, develop, and integrate new cloud technologies and processes to support existing infrastructure and modernization efforts

• Serve as a technical lead on important .NET development projects and contribute to architectural norms for practice

• Lead large feature releases that cross team boundaries or require coordination with client teams

• Design, implement, integrate, maintain, optimize, and administer cloud solutions, infrastructures, and platforms using .NET technologies

• Independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment

• Support and maintain existing .NET software functionality; investigate, analyze and correct identified defects

• Improve maintainability and performance of existing applications through application refactoring and optimization

• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and multiple stacks; perform code reviews and branch management

• Engage with Effectual and client leadership to align approach with their needs; work alongside individual contributors

• Review technical design documentation, create proper documentation for software, and identify long-term technical direction for teams and projects

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, IS, or related field

• 7-10+ years of experience in Software Engineering with strong .NET development background

• Experience with at least 2 front-end programming languages/frameworks (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js)

• AWS Certifications Preferred: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS AI Practitioner

• Advanced .NET 6+ development with deep understanding of CLR internals, ASP.NET Core ecosystem (ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core Identity)

• Microservices architecture design and implementation

• C# async/await and Task-based asynchronous programming

• AWS Lambda serverless development with .NET runtime

• Amazon ECS/EKS containerized .NET applications

• AWS API Gateway integration and management

• Amazon RDS/Aurora database integration

• AWS messaging services (SQS, SNS, EventBridge)

• Amazon S3 for object storage, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)

• AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing

• Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and observability

• AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store

• Excellent understanding of information security best practices and secure design, particularly for .NET applications

• Understanding of .NET performance tuning and CLR optimization

• Cross-functional collaboration between front-end and back-end development teams

• Nice to have: Front-End Development (JavaScript ES6+, TypeScript, React 18+, Angular 15+, Vue.js 3+, or Svelte), HTML5 and CSS3, TailwindCSS V3+, modern front-end build tools (Webpack, Vite), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS), DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), database migration and modernization experience, PWA and mobile development experience

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurances

• Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances

• 401k with Company match

• Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)

• Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)

• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management's discretion and may change at any time.

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