Senior API/Middleware Developer

Role Specifics:

• Responsible for implementing API/Middleware Architectural goals
• Supports formulating API/Middleware technical roadmap, technical debt
• Supports standards for API/Middleware security, performance, stability
• Partially responsible for coordinating and performing API/Middleware maintenance / third level (senior) technical support (shared with Support groups)

General Requirements:

• Expert level knowledge of ASP.NET Core Web API is required.
• At least 3-4 years of hands-on experience with .NET is needed for success.
• Expert level knowledge of .NET fundamentals – Object Oriented Development, Generics, LINQ, Entity Framework, Unit Testing.
• Some SQL Server knowledge is desired (at the level of Transact SQL, no administration skills necessary)
• Some experience with design and prototyping tools and diagramming is desired.
• Decent understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns is desired.
• Expert level understanding of API versioning, management, telemetry, performance tuning and API documentation techniques (swagger or similar).
• Able to create technical debt and technical roadmap assessments for API products.
• Able to peer review, improve and implement presented Solution / Enterprise Architecture artefacts.
• Basic understanding fundamentals of reliable/repeatable processes, monitoring, compensation, graceful degradation is required.

Education and Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar related discipline is preferred, but not absolutely required.
• Hands on experience is prioritized.
• Strong English skills.

Personal Traits:

The individual must exhibit the following core values:

• Approachable.
• Adventurous.
• Relentless.
• Speedy.

Additional traits specific to the position that are desired:

• Ability to remain calm and productive under pressure, in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Rapid, value-add oriented decision-making ability.
• Intense customer focus.
• Ability to adapt to change, to direct/control change and to facilitate change.
• Ability to accept and carry responsibility without reservation.
• Ability to perform with minimal supervision, identifying and proactively communicating on all pre-requisites for successful performance.
• Strong communication skills preferred.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional business team, identifying additional technical solutions that will enable the client to keep their promise of providing industry-leading service.

About our client: Our client is a national tire distributor that delivers to U.S. tire and automotive retailers the full passenger and light truck tire portfolios of Goodyear and Bridgestone. They’re out to set a new standard of excellence for tire distribution in the U.S., and they’ll do it by focusing on the needs of dealers and their customers.