Backend Development Leadership: Drive development within .NET projects, delivering robust backend services and APIs for modern web applications.
Performance & Reliability: Oversee evaluation, improvement, and monitoring of backend performance, ensuring reliability, stability, and maintainability.
API & System Integration: Collaborate closely with frontend, architecture, and integration teams to deliver smooth, real-time data flows across systems.
Technical Implementation Excellence: Translate technical requirements into clean, efficient, and scalable code, while helping define coding standards and best practices for the team.
Testing & Quality Assurance: Ensure high quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous integration practices. Support the team in building secure and maintainable solutions.
Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead of the latest trends in .NET and backend engineering, helping the team adopt new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.
Communication & Mentorship: Share progress, highlight risks, and solve problems proactively. Mentor junior developers and cultivate a collaborative engineering culture.
Requirements:
Experience & Expertise: Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in C# /.NET backend development. Strong command of .NET 6+, .NET Core, Web API, and RESTful services. Experience with relational databases (SQL Server) and ORM frameworks (EF Core). Experience with CMS platforms is a nice-to-have (e.g., Sitecore, Umbraco, Optimizely).
Technical Skills: Solid understanding of application architecture, design patterns, and modern development principles. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git). Strong grasp of performance optimization and troubleshooting techniques.
Ways of Working: Solid grounding in Agile methodologies and iterative delivery. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to a positive, learning-focused team culture. Strong multitasking abilities and adaptability to dynamic work environments.
Communication: Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex topics clearly. Proficiency in Dutch or French + English is required.
Additional: Experience providing L2/L3 support in a production environment. Willingness to be on on-demand 24/7 standby for critical production incidents.
Conformity Criteria:
Fluent proficiency in English.
Willingness of on-demand 24/7 availability for production incidents.
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in C# /.NET backend development.
Strong command of .NET 6+, .NET Core, Web API, and RESTful services.
Experience with relational databases (SQL Server) and ORM frameworks (EF Core).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).
Evaluation Criteria:
Proven aptitude in performance optimization techniques, ensuring consistency across diverse web browsers and versions.
Solid understanding of application architecture, design patterns, and modern development principles.
Solid grounding in Agile methodologies, emphasizing servant leadership, collaboration, and rapid, iterative growth.
Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work well with cross-functional teams, paired with a mentoring spirit.
Outstanding communication skills, capable of simplifying complex technical concepts.