Senior .NET Engineer

Overview: 

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. 

As a Senior .NET Engineer, you will be responsible for developing high-quality software solutions that meet our business needs. You will closely collaborate with the Lead .NET Software Engineer in growing a performant .NET engineering team to aid transform Guidepoint’s technology landscape into modern, highly available, scalable enterprise PaaS-based solutions.

This position is hybrid in Toronto.

Your Day-to-Day Will Include 💻:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers to help them grow and develop their skills
• Lead the team in adopting a quality-centric approach to software development
• Develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure software quality
• Maintain and improve codebase integrity by actively participating in code reviews and proactively identifying refactoring opportunities in maintained applications.
• Develop and support scalable web/API applications using.NET core and Azure Platform Services
• Refactor legacy components using innovative/scalable platform
• Decompose portions of the legacy application into APIs running on App Services 
• Work with large database schemas that would include adding and updating tables and rows
• Implement integration and convention tests

Minimum Technical Qualifications✔️:

• 8+ years of experience in .NET development using C#
• Experience with OOP principles and patterns, developing and delivering large scale distributed systems
• Strong adherence to object-oriented programming principles and patterns, developing and delivering large scale distributed systems
• Proficient in grooming backlog items and ensuring that they are engineer ready
• Experience in .NET Core 3.1+
• Experience in xUnit
• Experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework Core and Dapper
• Proficient in Data Modeling and SQL
• Experience building data integrations and other system integrations using different technologies like Message Queues, Kafka etc.
• Experience leveraging issue-tracking systems/wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Willingness to learn designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)

Preferred Technical Qualifications✔️:

• 10+ years of experience developing software using C# and .NET tech stack
• 4+ years of leading software engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with Azure platform services
• Experienced in architecture diagraming tools such as Visio or LucidChart.
• Experience with developing applications following CQRS and DDD.
• Experience with Aspect Oriented Programming.
• Experience in Data Management methodologies
• 2+ years of experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines

Soft Skills Required✔️:

• Maintain problem-solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & candid communication skills
• Independent contributor with drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks
• Able to balance strategic and tactical methodologies in delivery.
• Exhibits judgement when it comes to prioritization and overall team management

You will also be eligible for the following benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Company RRSP Match
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint, a leading expert network firm, connects clients with vetted subject matter experts—Advisors—from their global professional network. Guidepoint clients leverage the insights and perspectives shared by Advisors to stay informed and make better business decisions. Its slate of services, including phone consultations, surveys, events, and proprietary data insights products, helps professionals gain a comprehensive understanding of a topic before making strategic or investment decisions. Guidepoint’s multinational client list includes 9 of the top 10 consulting firms and some of the largest hedge funds, private equity firms, and Fortune-ranked public companies. For more information, visit www.guidepoint.com.

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