• Collaborate on technical and architectural decisions: API design, database separation, service integration, and transaction management across services.
• Contribute to the migration from a monolith to a microservices architecture.
• Maintain and enhance high-performance .NET 8 backend services.
• Write clean, testable C# code using modern .NET patterns and best practices.
• Help evaluate and implement trade-offs: SQL Server vs PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ vs Kafka vs Dapr, REST vs GraphQL, API Gateway options, etc.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize for scalability and performance.
• Format and expose backend data for frontend use.
• Enforce security standards and run regular audits to ensure compliance.
• Utilize Azure DevOps for CI/CD and project management.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams: frontend, QA, DevOps.

Bonus Skills

• 5+ years of experience with .NET Core microservices.
• Strong understanding of modular architectures (Clean Architecture, DDD/CQRS).
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with inter-service communication, data ownership, API gateway selection, and cross-service transactions.
• Proficiency in C# with modern async patterns.
• Expertise in SQL databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and ORM tools (Entity Framework Core/Dapper).
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks (xUnit/NUnit).
• Experience with security protocols: JWT, Firebase, OpenID Connect.
• Comfortable working with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring/logging tools.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps and centralized logging (e.g., Serilog).

Bonus Skills

• Exposure to React, Electron, or modern frontend frameworks for cross-team collaboration.
• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Alibaba Cloud ECS, S3, RDS, Cosmos DB).