About PoqJoin Poq, the ‘super app’ SaaS company, empowering retailers and brands to drive fast growth and revolutionise their customer experience through highly effective and fully customisable mobile native apps. As a member of our team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of retail by enabling brands to provide a superior shopping and engagement experience - anytime, anywhere.
At Poq, we collaborate with retailers to build stronger brands, increase product sales, foster customer loyalty and deliver highly relevant content, communications and rewards. Our clients include global brands such as Hotter Shoes, Ardene, Cotton Traders, Card Factory, e.l.f cosmetics and many more! With our apps serving consumers in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand and plans for further expansion across these regions and in Europe - you’ll be at the forefront of driving international impact.
Poq’s best-in-class native mobile app development platform is microservices-based, scales in the cloud and is architected to be part of the headless trend (MACH). Joining our team means gaining exposure to cutting-edge technologies and working with the latest and most progressive operating system (OS) languages and frameworks.
If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of digital business-to-consumer (B2C) innovation and want to contribute to the growth of a forward-thinking company, Poq is the place for you.
About the role - Senior .NET Backend Developer You will have a deep understanding of the entire Backend architecture and you will be able to clearly articulate the scaling and reliability limits of the architecture. You will be technically minded, being able to jump into a complex problem, break it down and identify potential solutions. You will understand and practice agile software development and management.
What you’ll be doingEnd-to-end technical responsibility for project delivery: Estimating the work, producing technical solution designs, development, releasing and supporting the solution in production.Being the go to person and an expert problem-solverAnticipating broad technical changes and ensuring Poqs platform is always ahead of the curveHelping backend team establishing standards and best practicesQuickly breaking down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get to solid resolutions fasterDebugging the hairiest problems that the team encounters and providing both short term and long term solutions.Ensuring the solutions are observable, secure and within Poq standards and industry best practicesIs focused on business goals and able to discern where to spend developer effortAlways looking to develop and improve their teams, the organisation and themselves in the Backend space. Owning the backend domain for solutions within own team, advising other developersContributing to conversations internally about the direction of major areas of Backend technology, driving wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and using this direction to inspire engineersConsiders long-term impacts of decisions on Poq platform & product
What we’re looking forExcellent problem solving skillsExcellent communication skills.Ability to clearly articulate technical problems to non-technical people like project managers and client stakeholdersAt least 5 years of development experience with C#. NETStrong knowledge of working with Rest APIs using ASP.NET Web APIStrong experience with Test Driven DevelopmentLove of writing clean, maintainable, easy-to-test codeExperience with release management and observing APIs in production environmentsExperience developing e-commerce solutions is good to haveExperience with releasing solutions with Azure DevOps and maintaining APIs in Azure is good to have
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