Technical Lead (.Net Core)

Responsibilities

Required Experience:
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with .Net core 8+
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with RabbitMQ

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Microservices development

 
Core Skills Required:
 
Strong Proficiency:
• C#, .NET Core / .NET 8+
• ASP.NET Core (Web API & Microservices development)
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) & SOLID principles
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
• RESTful API design and development
• Entity Framework Core (EF Core)
• Asynchronous programming (async/await, Task-based patterns)
• Exception handling, logging, and debugging
• Secure coding practices
• Any Relational Databases (Postgres, MSSQL server etc) (queries, joins, stored procedures, performance tuning)
• Source control frameworks and CICD pipelines
• Queues and Events driven programming.
• Authentication & Authorization: JWT, OAuth 2.0
• Experience with Message-Oriented Middleware preferably RabbitMQ
 
Hands-on Experience:
• Designing, building and maintaining scalable, low latency, high-performance APIs with .Net core 8+
• Developing high throughput microservices with Net core/.Net 8+.
• Experience in Entity Framework Core (EF Core)
• Asynchronous programming (async/await, Task-based patterns)
• Authentication & Authorization: JWT, OAuth 2.0
• Any Relational Databases(Postgres, MSSQL server etc)
• Writing clean, reusable, and testable code
• Unit testing using xUnit / NUnit / MSTest
• Source control using Git (Azure DevOps / GitHub / Bitbucket)
• Logging frameworks (Serilog / NLog)
• Application deployment and troubleshooting
• Integrating third-party APIs and services.
• Publisher-Consumer services using RabbitMQ
• Building full-stack applications with React

• Demonstrated coding productivity/velocity gains using GitHub Copilot or other AI coding agents.

 
Working Knowledge:
• CI/CD/GitOps pipelines
• Agile / Scrum development methodologies
• Caching mechanisms (Redis / in-memory caching)
• API documentation tools (Swagger / OpenAPI)
• GitHub Copilot

• Distributed tracing

• Performance hotspot discovery & performance tuning

• Experience in Observability (ELK Stack)

• Experience in Mass Transit Framework
 
Good to Have:
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Helm Charts
• Experience mentoring junior developers

• GitHub Actions

Nice to Have:
• Apache Kafka
• Dapr
• ArgoCD
• Martendb
• Microsoft Azure

• NoSQL database like MongoDB

• Angular or ReactJS

Key Responsibilities:
Architect, design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade .NET Core  applications

Identify performance bottlenecks and remediate such issues

Design low latency, highly scalable microservices and obtain validations from Architects
Build and consume secure, scalable REST APIs
Participate in architecture and design discussions
Ensure code quality through reviews, unit testing, and best practices
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UI, DevOps, QA, Product Owners)
Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance
Follow Agile processes and ensure estimates are constantly optimized and Sprint/PI goals are met
Create and maintain technical documentation
Support application deployments and production releases

Guide the team & derive comprehensive benefits from GitHub CoPilot(velocity vs cost vs quality)

Profile required

• Proven experience in the programming/scripting languages.
• Complete understanding of front, middle and back-end programming concepts.
• Proficiency in one of the programming languages is added advantage.
• Ability to use designing and automation tools.
• Basic knowledge of CI practices.
• High learning agility.
• Excellent team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of any frameworks.
• Proven development experience on Python or Java
• Strong knowledge and experience in automated testing using Selenium framework
• Demonstrated experience in designing, building and maintaining data processing systems.

Nice to have

- Domain knowledge of Payments & Cash Management(SEPA, Cross Broder, ISO20022, Swift, Western Europe local schemes)