Senior .NET Engineer

Overview: 

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.  

As a Senior .NET Engineer, you will be responsible for developing high-quality software solutions that meet our business needs. You will closely collaborate with the Lead .NET Software Engineer in growing a performant .NET engineering team to aid transform Guidepoint’s technology landscape into modern, highly available, scalable enterprise PaaS-based solutions. 

This position is hybrid in Toronto.

What You’ll Do: 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions 
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers to help them grow and develop their skills 
• Lead the team in adopting a quality-centric approach to software development 
• Develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure software quality 
• Maintain and improve codebase integrity by actively participating in code reviews and proactively identifying refactoring opportunities in maintained applications. 
• Develop and support scalable web/API applications using.NET core and Azure Platform Services 
• Refactor legacy components using innovative/scalable platform 
• Decompose portions of the legacy application into APIs running on App Services  
• Work with large database schemas that would include adding and updating tables and rows 
• Implement integration and convention tests 

What You Have: 

• 8+ years of experience in .NET development using C# 
• Experience with OOP principles and patterns, developing and delivering large scale distributed systems 
• Strong adherence to object-oriented programming principles and patterns, developing and delivering large scale distributed systems 
• Proficient in grooming backlog items and ensuring that they are engineer ready
• Experience in .NET Core 3.1+
• Experience in xUnit
• Experience with ORMs such as Entity Framework Core and Dapper
• Proficient in Data Modeling and SQL
• Experience building data integrations and other system integrations using different technologies like Message Queues, Kafka etc.
• Experience leveraging issue-tracking systems/wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Willingness to learn designing fault-tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (load balancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc) 
• 10+ years of experience developing software using C# and .NET tech stack 
• 4+ years of leading software engineering teams 
• Hands-on experience with Azure platform services 
• Experienced in architecture diagraming tools such as Visio or LucidChart. 
• Experience with developing applications following CQRS and DDD. 
• Experience with Aspect Oriented Programming. 
• Experience in Data Management methodologies 
• 2+ years of experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines 

What We Offer: 

• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Company RRSP Match
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform

About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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