WHO WE LOOKING FOR
We're looking for a capable .Net Umbraco Developer. You must have hands on experience with Umbraco. You should be excited by the prospect of architecting challenging new projects, whilst fine tuning and maintaining existing projects. You must have strong problem-solving logic and architectural knowledge to craft web and mobile platforms. You must be willing to learn new skills and participate in team innovation and knowledge sharing. Be prepared to take on any challenge head-on and have a problem-solving attitude.
WHO WORKS AT BLUEGRASS
Code lovers and geeks with interesting hobby projects. They are collaborators and enjoy contributing to communities. They like to exceed expectations, want to learn and improve through doing great work experience & achieving results. Honest, ethical, punctual and professional with a sense of humor! Technical thinkers that can communicate well with both clients, internal teams and non-techies.
SKILLS REQUIRED
- Minimum of 3-5+ years' experience in web / mobile development
- Experience in developing/maintaining application with Umbraco CMS as the core backend component in the architecture - required
- Experience using .NET / ASP.NET MVC / C# / JavaScript / Web API / Web Services / Razor / JSON
- Good Frontend skills and working with HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS
- Good knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, Typescript)
- Good database and server-side application skills with Azure, SQL / NoSQL (Cosmos)
- Cloud Hosting platform experience - Azure App Services and Application development and Azure DevOps experience is very advantageous
- Excellent understanding of stored procedures and database design/normalization
- Excellent understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies
- Gather customer software requirements and develop related software applications and programs (to spec)
- Good application performance optimization strategies and techniques
- Good knowledge of object orientated concepts
- Experience in system integration techniques
- Experience interfacing with clients, understanding client business strategies and how to deliver these within applications you architect
- Communicating at a management level. Speaking with authority and lucidity to clients and team members
- Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies
- Experience using project management tools like Jira
- Happy to mentor and grow self-motivated less experienced team members
- Team player and not afraid of a bit of hard-work and fun with colleagues
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop, test and support web and mobile applications
- Provide accurate cost estimates
- Research and evaluate software related technologies and products
- Implement and ensure development best practices, and programming standards are adhered to across your projects
- Continuously improve development processes and libraries for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
- Code audits and pull request reviews
- Assist and support other team members on their projects (if required)
- Interact with clients to determine their requirements and needs
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded over 25 years ago, we are an independent digital solutions company that design and build products and platforms for ambitious brands. Our mission is to help our clients drive business growth using data-led user experiences, innovation and technology built to scale.
- We use the latest cloud technologies, predominately Azure Cloud Platform and are Microsoft Gold Partners
- We apply modern architecture principles into our solutions using React front-ends, API and headless driven solutions.
- We deliver digital experiences for websites using industry leading platforms such as Umbraco, Optimizely and WordPress
- We are Umbraco Gold Partners and Optimizely Silver Partners
- We deliver ecommerce platforms using modern headless architecture with tools like Optimizely, Umbraco Commerce, WooCommerce and other commerce tools.
- We have an experience mobile practice delivering cutting-edge mobile apps across iOS and Android for both B2B and B2C brands.
With offices in London, Cape Town and Johannesburg we work and support clients around the world from funded start-ups to large corporate enterprises. We are also a BEE Level 2 rated company.
We help deliver on design and technical execution of mobile and web solutions for customers like Allan Gray, Monster Energy, Clover, Kenya Airways, Coronation, Dineplan, DSTV, Johnson & Johnson and more.
Our service offerings cover the following areas:
- Strategy and digital transformation
- UX & UI Design
- Custom software development
- Mobile application development
- DXP & Content management systems
- Ecommerce solutions
- Azure DevOps & Managed Hosting Solutions
- Maintenance & Service Level Agreements
- Data analysis & insights (Google Cloud & CRM)
