Senior Dotnet Developer

Job Title: Senior .Net Developer with Betting and Gambling Firm

Job Type: Perm

Location: 2 Days in a Week in Manchester M2 4JG

The company is searching for candidate:

• Coaching junior developers (at least one)

.NET 8+ experience

SQL experience

API driven service architecture

Event driven architecture (preferable)

Performance Optimisation (SQL, Code)

Team Player

Comfortable to have a play with TypeScript if needed

• strong communication

• architecture/design experience

• stakeholder management

• strategic thinking

• some AI awareness

• confidence to influence decisions

This is a Senior .NET Developer job where you will:

• Work in a team to build and improve software systems

• Focus mainly on backend development (C# / .NET)

• Help design and deliver features from development to production

⚙️ What you’ll actually do day-to-day

• Build and update application features

• Connect front-end apps (web) with backend systems and third-party services

• Write clean, reusable, high-quality code

• Make sure features are:

o Delivered on time

o Tested properly

• Help set up and improve CI/CD pipelines (automated deployment)

• Fix issues and support systems once they go live

• Work closely with:

o Developers

o QA testers

o Platform/DevOps teams

Skills they REQUIRE (Essentials)

You must have:

• Strong C# / .NET experience

• Knowledge of software architecture (N-tier, SOA)

• Good understanding of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)

• Experience building APIs / services

• Experience with:

o SQL + NoSQL databases

o Git (version control)

• Ability to:

o Work in Agile teams

o Solve problems and debug issues

o Write testable code

• Willingness to:

o Learn

o Occasionally support systems outside working hours

Job Purpose

You will join one of our agile teams and be responsible for implementing sections of functionality or making updates to existing features, ensuring they are delivered on time with the correct approach and to the standards defined by the Lead Developers.

Our tech stack includes some of the latest design patterns and tools as well as established tech that needs additional features building on. For example, SQL, NoSQL, caching services, messaging services, C# Windows Services, WebAPI, WCF, WPF, Winforms, Microsoft Orleans… all used to build a platform that has integration to internal and external services.

Job Duties

• To work on the integration of web front ends with back-end services and third-party systems.

• Apply software development best practices, architectures and patterns in collaboration with other developers and QA.

• Implementing new features, writing clean, reusable code.

• Owning developments all the way to production and supporting them once live.

• Collaborate with the platform engineering team developing a true CI/CD process.

• Ensuring everything you write is testable, whether this be unit, integration, UI or performance tests.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essentials:

• Significant commercial experience in .NET with C#

• Experience with N-Tier architecture/SOA

• Knowledge of relevant design patterns

• Excellent understanding of OOP concepts

• Demonstrable experience of building Web Services, WebAPI and WCF

• Database experience, working with both SQL and NoSQL

• Expertise in performance optimization

• Source Control, must be confident using Git for all roles

• Experience working in an Agile or Kanban environment

• Knowledge of software and application design and architecture

• An excellent communicator, both verbal and written

• Hardworking and willing to go above and beyond learning new skills

• Ability to work as part of a team and collaborate with others

• An interest in troubleshooting and problem solving

• Participate in releases, and/or out of hours on-call availability as needed

Desirables:

• Any history working with WinForms/WPF is extremely useful

• Experience in the gaming industry is a significant advantage

• Experience taking ownership of a system or sub-system is an advantage