Senior Backend Engineer

SparkHaus is an early-stage start-up specializing in unlocking customer insights across the luxury product ecosystem. Our mission is to revolutionize customer relationship management in this industry through modern technology.
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team and be part of shaping the future of customer experience in the high-end luxury space. This is a contract-to-hire role; you will begin as a contractor with the expectation of becoming a full-time employee.
 

Your Impact: 

• Develop, test, and maintain containerized .NET services hosted on AWS.
• Build and maintain integrations with several downstream 3rd party partner systems. 
• Build and maintain a suite of unit test and integration tests.
• Work closely with other engineers to define a contract between the API and its consumers.
• Optimize services for maximum performance, quality, and responsiveness.
• Combine different AWS services to build robust server-side applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards.
• Maintain a product and user experience driven development approach, always prioritizing the end-user's needs and providing insights for the best implementation strategies.
• Quickly adapt to new information or challenges that arise during the project lifecycle.
   

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in back-end development.
• Most recent development experience is with .NET and C#.
• Experience with Entity Framework and Dapper.
• Experience with containerization of .NET applications using Docker.
• Experience working with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Experience with different .NET architectures such as n-tier, CQRS, and vertical slice.
• Experience in developing and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience integrating .NET applications with Salesforce or other CRM systems is a plus.
• Familiarity with various authentication and authorization approaches to protect APIs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively with remote teams.
• Ability to write and maintain comprehensive documentation (ReadMe, code comments, architecture diagrams, technical documentation) to ensure future team members can effectively contribute to the codebase.
• Nimble, with the ability to quickly adapt to new information or challenges that come up during the project.
• Bias for action, ability to take lead and drive projects forward with limited oversight and direction.
• Ability to ask questions to understand current future needs of the product to design scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Ability to properly manage time between development, meetings, and code reviews. 

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