Senior Backend Developer

Waracle are looking for a Senior Backend Developer for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

The Senior Developer will be based from any Waracle office (Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow or London) in a hybrid working pattern.

As a Backend Developer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining server-side applications and services. You will work closely with our front-end developers, product teams, and DevOps to ensure the seamless delivery of highly scalable and reliable applications.

As a Senior Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the design, build, and maintenance of efficient, reusable, and reliable backend systems, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Collaborate with the front-end team to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Ensure high performance, quality, and responsiveness of backend services.
• Manage and deploy cloud-based applications, ensuring scalability, security, and availability.
• Implement and maintain databases, including performance tuning and optimisation.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues to optimise application performance and user experience.
• Work in an Agile environment, participating in code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Collaborate with DevOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth deployments.

Job requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in designing, developing, and deploying applications and APIs using C# and the .NET framework.
• Experience of handling data with models in C#, Entity Framework Core (EF) for database interaction, Controllers and Routing, and Dependency Injection in .NET APIs.
• Practical experience with Azure and Azure Functions as part of a serverless architecture.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, with hands-on experience in building, deploying, testing and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Experience in designing and implementing the Backend for Frontend (BFF)
• Knowledge of security best practices, including data protection, encryption, and OAuth.
• Solid understanding of version control systems (Git) and Agile development methodologies.

Desirable Skills

• Background working within highly regulated environments such as Financial Services.
• Experience with Umbraco.
• Containerisation tools such as Kubernetes, Docker or similar.

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!). After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage hiring process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.

We have various events, days out, competitions and incentives throughout the year and here are some other benefits you can expect as permanent team member at Waracle:

• 🏡 Flexible and Hybrid working
• 🏖 35 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 💸 Matched Pension up to 5%
• 🤒 Medicash Proactive Health Cover
• 🏥 Group Life and Sickness Cover
• 🍼 Enhanced parental leave
• 🍎 Macbook and home office set up budget
• Plus many more!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.