Remote Senior Web Application Developer (JB1359)
Location: Applicants living in South Africa
Salary: Highly negotiable, based on experience

Our client is a US based company that is seeking to hire a talented developer from South Africa in a permanent, fully remote capacity. Applicants should ideally have experience in the financial, property or insurance sectors.

As the role is for an American company, applicants must be comfortable attending online meetings outside our standard working hours.

Duties:
Develop and maintain applications using a variety of technologies that support multiple lines of Business and IT initiatives
Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
Communicate professionally as a primary point of contact for business
Manage ad-hoc requests and multiple projects simultaneously, while operating in a high tempo environment with ever-changing priorities and tasks.
Design, develop and implement new applications, enhancements, and new features to our products which are primarily ASP.NET on Azure, Azure Paas, Faas and containers
Participate in the inception phase of application selection to evaluate applications for compatibility and appropriateness for the organisation
Provide ongoing system capacity planning for existing applications and determine opportunities for optimization of existing systems
Prepare accurate and detailed requirement specification documents, user guides and functional specification documents
Participate in the final phases of deploying and performance tuning of the application and help identify performance bottlenecks and suggest workarounds
Provide technical and solution documentation for existing applications and ensure that this documentation remains up to date
Provide guidance on coding, refactoring, root cause analysis and feature design best practices
Develop standards and best practices
Participate in peer code reviews
Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Review, analyze, and create solutions by utilizing the cloud environment:
Data & Storage: SQL Database, DocumentDB, Redis Cache, Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files and Disks)
Identity & Access Management: Azure Active Directory, Azure Identity, Azure B 2 C Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Office and Developer Services: Visual Studio Online, Git, and Office 365
Systems Management: Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Automation
Work as a technical lead for development efforts and mentor other team members

Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or other technical fields with 10+ years of applicable experience in a technology environment. Additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
10+ years overall industry experience in design, and development
7+ years of experience with designing, building and supporting database systems
2 + years of experience with Azure Cloud
Must have extensive working experience with Microsoft technologies
Understanding of CQRS Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Architectural pattern
Understanding of AMQP Message Broker technology like Rabbit MQ
Application migration from legacy mode to services and micro services
Experience with communicating with business to gather requirements and convert them into technical requirements
Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud and .NET architecture
Sound experience with C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, MVC/MVVM-based Application
Knowledge and Understanding of Reactive and Functional Programming, TDD
Deep knowledge of MS-SQL and/or NoSQL
Knowledge and experience with agile development
Experience with unit testing frameworks Jest, xUnit, NUnit
Strong understanding of Application Lifecycle Management