.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