Qualifications:
- 4-5 years of hands-on experience in backend development using C# .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET 6+, with strong expertise in building scalable and high-performance applications.
- Strong understanding of API development and integration, including JSON, XML, SOAP, API management platforms, and automated testing using tools such as Postman and SoapUI.
- Proven experience with relational databases including PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), with strong database design and optimization skills.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), or Red Hat OpenShift, and deploying applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, Agile methodologies, and tools such as Jira, with experience developing automated background services, batch jobs, and console applications.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with modern banking architectures, Java/Spring Boot microservices, and core banking platforms.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Key Responsibilities & Leadership
- Team Leadership & Delivery Alignment
- Engineering Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and strengthen the development team; foster a collaborative environment and cultivate a high bar for engineering craftsmanship.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Owners to scope, review, and refine user stories, and collaborate with Solutions Architects to map out robust technical solutions.
- Roadmap & Project Delivery: Plan, drive, and execute 2 to 5 parallel project implementations, ensuring milestones align seamlessly with the broader product roadmap.
- Architecture, Integration & Cloud Evolution
- API & Microservices Architecture: Design and review highly secure, scalable, and resilient RESTful APIs and distributed microservices platforms.
- Financial & Systems Integration: Lead complex third-party and backend system integrations, with an emphasis on optimized routing and secure financial message transformation.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Advocacy: Continuous evolution of cloud infrastructure, making it easier for engineers to utilize cloud platforms efficiently while maintaining code quality and system performance.
- Git Workflow & GitOps Process Engineering
- Process Standards Definition: Define, standardize, and govern the team`s version control branching strategies and code promotion pathways.
- Commit Strategy & Hygene: Enforce strict rules around atomic commits, structured conventional commit messages, and local pre-commit hooks (e.g., linting, secret scanning, formatting).
- Merge Request (MR / PR) Governance: Establish rigorous merge request policies including mandatory peer code reviews, automated security/vulnerability gating, architectural alignment checks, and successful integration test runs before approval.
- Post-Merge Activities & Automation: Oversee post-merge triggers, ensuring successful automated deployment to lower environments (Staging/UAT), managing artifact versioning/tagging, executing post-deployment sanity/smoke tests, and tracking deployment observability metrics.
- Testing, Observability, & Incident Management
- Development and Production Escalation: Act as the ultimate technical point of escalation to rapidly diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve critical production issues.
- Quality Assurance & Sanity Testing: Drive the execution of thorough deployment sanity testing across environments to validate critical workflows and integration points before production releases.
- System Reliability: Focus deeply on system reliability and observability, ensuring proactive health tracking and automated error management across environments.
Why Choose IPI
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