Our client is looking for a Software Engineer- Upper Mid-level / Senior to join their team remotely.

Software Engineer- Upper Mid-level / Senior (Remote Position)
Our client is looking for an experienced Software Engineer.
Activities will include:

• Design, develop, test and maintain features across a modern enterprise web platform.
• Build secure backend services and web applications using C# and modern .NET.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs and integrations with third-party systems.
• Work with relational databases, data models and performance-sensitive queries.
• Contribute to responsive and user-friendly web interfaces.
• Take ownership of features from technical design through development, testing and release.
• Review requirements and identify technical risks, dependencies and edge cases.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical planning and code reviews.
• Write clean, maintainable and appropriately tested code.
• Investigate defects, performance issues and production incidents.
• Estimate development effort and communicate progress, risks and blockers clearly.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation.
• Contribute to engineering standards, secure development practices and delivery processes.
• Support and mentor less-experienced developers where appropriate.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve delivery, testing, documentation and technical analysis.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Core Technical Requirements. The successful candidate should have strong commercial experience in most of the following:
• C# and modern .NET.
• NET Core.
• RESTful API design and third-party integrations.
• PostgreSQL, SQL Server or another enterprise relational database.
• Entity Framework Core or a comparable ORM.
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Git-based source control.
• Unit, integration and automated testing.
• Object-oriented programming and software design principles.
• Dependency injection and separation of concerns.
• Authentication, authorisation and role-based access control.
• Secure web application development.
• Cloud-hosted applications.
• Docker or similar container technologies.
• Automated build, testing and deployment processes

Advantageous Experience

• AWS or another major cloud platform.
• React, Next.js or a comparable frontend framework.
• Multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• High-volume enterprise applications.
• Workflow-driven business systems.
• Background processing and asynchronous workloads.
• Application monitoring and performance optimisation.
• Single sign-on and identity-provider integrations.
• Reporting and analytics platforms.
• AI-enabled product features.
• AI-assisted software development tools.

Our client is adopting an AI-assisted software development approach

• Be comfortable using AI-assisted development tools where appropriate.
• Understand that generated code and technical outputs must be independently reviewed, tested and validated.
• Maintain full accountability for the quality, security and maintainability of delivered software.
• Apply sound engineering judgement rather than relying uncritically on generated outputs.
• Be willing to adapt as development tools and practices evolve.

Security and Quality.  The candidate should have a practical understanding of:

• Secure authentication and session management.
• Role- and permission-based access control.
• Secure API design.
• Input validation and protection against common web vulnerabilities.
• OWASP secure development principles.
• Logging, monitoring and audit trails.
• Protection of confidential and personal information.
• Code quality, maintainability and testability.

Experience and Qualifications

• Approximately five or more years of relevant commercial software development experience.
• Strong recent experience developing production software using C# and .NET.
• Experience delivering meaningful features from requirement through to production.
• Experience working within a professional software development team.
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field is preferred.
• Equivalent practical experience and a strong technical track record may be considered in place of a formal qualification.

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.
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