WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We're looking for a capable Senior .NET Umbraco developer who is energetic and passionate about using the latest technologies, and eager to grow by working on web and mobile software applications, custom software apps, API integrations and more. You will work on some big brand names, some small brand names, and start-ups building some cool projects and having fun along the way. You must be passionate about delivering performant code and following coding best practice standards. 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 and prepared to take on any challenge and have a problem-solving attitude.
SKILLS REQUIRED
- Minimum of 6+ years' experience in Microsoft .Net, .Net Core, C#
- Excellent experience using JavaScript / Web API / 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)
- Experience in developing/maintaining Umbraco Content Management Systems - Umbraco experience Required
- Excellent understanding of stored procedures and database design/normalization
- Excellent understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies
- Event driven architectures and approaches
- Excellent understanding of SOLID principles and best practices to follow within development
- Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
- 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
- Interact with business users, business analysts and other developers to understand new requirements
- Write technical specifications and develop new functionality to company standards and deadlines
- Participate in design and planning sessions
- Architect, 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
YOUR BEHAVIOURS
- You set a high bar for yourself and your team’s engineering skills
- You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- You provide technical leadership and mentor more junior engineers
- You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment
- You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across existing applications
- You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch
- You continuously deliver improvements to a project solution
- You have solid analytical and problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail
- You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies
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.
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)