About your key responsibilities and impact:

Designing, developing, and maintaining .NET applications, ensuring high-quality software solutions;
Working independently or in a team, adhering to coding standards and best practices;
Mentoring junior developers and participating in technical discussions;
Improving software development processes and ensuring system resilience;
Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting software requirements from stakeholders;
Implementing observability and monitoring through logging and instrumentation.

Essential professional experience:

System Analysis and Design:

Understanding microservice and monolith architectures, their advantages, and drawbacks;
Ability to design event-driven systems and resilient architectures;
Familiarity with architectural patterns, resilience strategies, and designing for failure;
Strong analytical skills in gathering and documenting software requirements;
Understanding of functional and non-functional requirements;
Knowledge of connection pooling, rate-limiter, circuit breaker, and bulkhead patterns.

Database Management:

Understanding relational and non-relational databases (key-value and object-oriented);
Proficiency in writing SQL queries and designing relational database models;
Knowledge of normalization/de-normalization strategies and primary/foreign key relationships;
Familiarity with database security best practices (access controls, encryption, SQL injection prevention).

Hard Skills:

C# Programming: Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, LINQ, asynchronous programming, dependency injection, and .NET framework libraries;
Web API Development: Proficiency in ASP.NET Core for architecting scalable RESTful services, performance optimization, and cloud integrations;
Database Expertise: Advanced SQL optimization, schema design, performance tuning, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL;
Message Brokers: Experience with Kafka, including architecture, producer/consumer APIs, and stream processing in microservices;
Debugging & Optimization: Advanced skills in profiling, identifying, and resolving performance bottlenecks;
Unit Testing & TDD: Experience with xUnit and test-driven development to ensure code quality;
Microservices Architecture: Proficiency in ASP.NET Core, Docker, Kubernetes, and applying patterns like service discovery, circuit breakers, event sourcing, and CQRS;
Observability & Monitoring: Implementing logging, instrumentation, and monitoring tools like Serilog for system health and troubleshooting.