Back End Developer

About PoqJoin Poq, the 'super app' SaaS company that empowers 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 e.l.f. Cosmetics, Ardene, Cotton Traders, Card Factory, Kurt Geiger and many more!

With our apps serving consumers in the UK, US, Europe and Australia, you'll be at the forefront of driving international impact. Joining our team means gaining exposure to the latest and most progressive technologies in retail.

As a remote-first company with a landing pad in London, we offer a dynamic work environment that encourages collaboration and creativity. 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 - .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

GDPR Compliance at PoqPoq will use the personal data provided by you in your application to contact you regarding matters relevant to the recruitment of this role. Members of the People team and relevant hiring managers and interviewers will have access to your CV during the recruitment process.

Poq Values & BehavioursDeliberateWe move forward constructively with integrity and purposeWe bring the best version of ourselves every dayWe are experts and innovators at the top of our gameEnterprisingWe are ambitious, resilient and passionate about what we doWe are creative thinkers, problem solvers, decision makersWe do great work and get things done togetherHonourableWe take ownership and hold ourselves accountableTake pride in our product, our work and each otherWe are honest, decent and do the right thingOpenWe are open to ideas, learning and evolvingWe work together as one teamWe celebrate and embrace our diversity

Key Skills

• C#
• Azure
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• ASP.NET
• .NET Framework