Senior .NET Backend Developer (REST APIs / Microservices) (100% Remote, Toronto ON)

Senior .NET Backend Developer (REST APIs / Microservices)

Bring your expertise to a dynamic insurance organization committed to innovation and digital excellence. Collaborate with high-performing teams, work with modern technologies, and contribute to strategic initiatives that are shaping the future of enterprise technology solutions.

What Is In It For You

• Salaried: $65-75 per hour.
• Incorporated Business Rate: $75-85 per hour.
• 5-month contract with the potential for permanent employment.
• Day schedule, 37.50 hours per week.
• Work remotely with 1 in-office day per month.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in the design, development, and deployment of .NET REST APIs and microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ensure service designs follow approved architecture.
• Learn and incorporate emerging API technologies into APIs.
• Build event-driven services using Kafka.
• Use and enhance DevOps tools and processes for CI/CD, including Jenkins, Artifactory, BitBucket, Gradle, Continuous Delivery Director, and Ansible.
• Identify defects in services, debug issues, and provide effective solutions.
• Coordinate with onshore and offshore teams to ensure coding, testing, debugging, and implementation activities are completed as required.
• Produce and maintain documentation and records in compliance with SDLC requirements.
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, interface design, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs.
• Contribute to defining timelines and project plans, and analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time, and scope.
• Ensure information security standards and requirements are incorporated into all solutions.
• Contribute to the ongoing support, stability, and performance of application systems in production, including problem analysis, resolution, escalation, and reporting as necessary.

Required Qualifications

What you will need to succeed:

• Post-secondary diploma or degree in Computer Science.
• 5+ years of development experience and progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience.
• 1+ years of experience working with Event Driven Architecture.
• Strong working experience with .NET APIs, REST, SOAP, JSON, OpenAPI, Swagger, MS SQL, web services, and web hosting technologies.
• Strong DevOps experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze situations and problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes, Okta, Kafka, AWS, and MongoDB.
• Experience with Group Benefits products and business domains.
• Exposure to Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration architectures and technologies.

Soft Skills

• Experience managing and coordinating team activities in a multi-site environment.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Customer-focused mindset with customers at the center of all activities.

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