.NET Core Developer - Chicago, IL(Hybrid)

Job Title: .NET Core Developer
Location: Chicago, IL(Hybrid)

Job Description/Responsibilities:
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of performance optimization, security best practices, and coding best practices

• Must have advanced skills in .NET Core, SQL, C# .NET Framework/Standard/Core, ASP.NET Web API, and RESTful APIs.
• Must be self-motivated and expected to initiate required activities on their own
• Able to learn and understand the customer experience and apply this to their daily development decisions
• The qualified candidate will work in an Agile/Scrum delivery model and perform duties in a manner consistent with a complex, diverse, dynamic hardware and software environment that serves a complex education community
• Be able to perform benefit analysis for IT solutions and make recommendations for technology direction particularly for performance and security.
• The qualified candidate will solve architectural and design challenges around performance, security, and reliability.
• Be able to use deep technical knowledge to make low level design decisions and writing code to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements.
• Be able to monitor and debug code to ensure the security and stability of the site.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of middle and backend layers for Mobile Platform by maintaining existing codebase as well as extending it with new features.
• Implement solutions according to design, requirements, and standards.
• Write unit tests, conform to code standards, have your designs and code reviewed, use both static and performance analysis tools.
• Work closely with your team members and the software team leads to ensure you're on track.
• Assist in continually improving our software development process and the development environment.

Skills / Experience:
Qualifications:

• Significant experience in Web Service development and Service-Oriented Architecture
• 5+ years of software development experience of API programming
• 5+ years of .NET Core experience
• 2+ years of Cloud development experience
• Senior Developer with strong leadership and communication skills
• Solid understand of security issues related to multi-tier enterprise applications

Required:

• Expertise in .NET Core and SQL
• Understanding of Static and Dynamic Code vulnerabilities
• Knowledge on GIT, TFS
• Knowledge on Veracode or similar tools
• ASP.NET MVC Framework
• C#
• Solid understanding of AWS Cloud service and Integration
• Solid understanding of SOAP, REST, and Web API based web service protocols
• Cloud Technology : AWS -Neptune, Dynamo DB, document DB, RDS SQL, Mongo DB (medium), EC2 hosting, .NET Core : Microservices, .NET core middleware
• Logging : Kibana, Elastic search, Log stash
• Dev Tool : Fiddler, Postman and Charles
• DevOps: Docker and Kubernetes (understanding)
• Testing tool : XUnit
• Experience with Microsoft Enterprise Library
• Experience with Microsoft Entity Framework and/or LINQ to SQL
• Experience with Test Driven Development and automated unit testing
• Experience with Event Base Architecture
• Excellent written and oral communications skills