Remote Cosmos DB contract jobs

Sword partner with private and public sector organisations across Finance, Energy, Manufacturing, Media and Government who count on the Sword team to deliver innovative solutions and services. 

We are currently looking to add an experienced Full Stack Senior Developer on a contract basis to our Professional Services team.

This ongoing contract opportunity (6 months +) will support full remote working for candidates already based in the UK and will involve the deployment of cutting edge tools and solutions. 

You will join an existing project team in the delivery and maintenance of complex enterprise solutions built using industry standard patterns, practices and components.

As well as an attractive day rate commensurate with the depth of experience that we require, you will have the opportunity to work with a technically talented team.

In terms of the technical skill-set required, we're looking for first class developers with expertise of using most of the following...

Core back end skills

•C# and .Net Core

•Azure Functions and WebApps

•RESTful API design

•Event driven architectures

•Test automation

•Cloud native programming

•Database (SQL and NoSQL), Cosmos DB (Advantageous)

Core front end skills

•JavaScript SPA development, React

•TypeScript

•CSS (SASS / Less)

•HTML 5

•Mobile development

•Front end build and package management

Core other

•Build and deployment automation, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Octopus,

•Knowledge of service bus architecture and development

•CI / CD, preferably with Azure DevOps

•Azure infrastructure as code, PowerShell, DSC, ARM

•SOLID, DRY, DDD principles

Please apply online in the first instance.

This is a remote position.

• Design and implement features and epics
  
• Review code and enforce team standards for quality, test coverage, performance etc.
  
• Network with engineers at adjacent teams and facilitate alignment and information sharing
  
• Continuously improve the development/delivery process
  
• Contribute to product roadmap and priorities
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing rich interactive web applications
  
• Excellent programming, software architecture, and communication skills
  
• Strong command of SQL
  
• Experience with agile software development methodologies (Scrum, etc.)
  

• C#, .NET Core
  
• Elastic Search, Azure Search
  
• React.js 16.8+ using ES6+ or TypeScript, Redux
  
• GraphQL clients such as Apollo Client
  
• Experience with relational and document-based databases: SQL, Cosmos DB
  
• DevOps tools and pipelines such as Azure DevOps
  
• Migration to cloud platform experience in Azure/AWS/GCP is desired
  
• Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Splunk, etc. is desired
  
• Node.js, Express.js is desired
  
• PWA development knowledge is desired
  
• Agile Scrum and Gitflow working experience are preferred
  
• Good technical writing, documentation, and communication skills
  

• Ability to define and implement a solution across a complex application stack
  
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics or other scientific or quantitative field
  
• Masters' in Computer Science or Engineering
  
  

2 senior software developers with web application development skills in C#.NET, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Cosmos DB and integration with Azure Active Directory B2C.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Work in an Agile environment, focusing on sustainable development of high performance scalable, and maintainable enterprise solutions.
• Participate in design discussions around architecture and business requirements with the Lead Engineer, architects, product owners, and business analysts. Work with a fairly undefined and unbounded problem to produce scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to local and offshore teams.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement and development best practices across products, teams, architecture, and implementations.
• Ensure successful system delivery to the production environment and assist the operations and support team in resolving production issues as necessary.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding best practices.

Education and/or Experience:

• Significant experience in software development delivering solutions into production and a track record of getting stuff done.
• Self-motivating, self-directing, a great communicator, and a desire to take personal responsibility to complete tasks and solve problems.
• Prior enterprise-level development and lifecycle experience. Experienced in working on large enterprise, high-availability, software products before.
• Strong understanding of the .NET development stack working on the Microsoft Azure, or similar, cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of modern database technologies. Relational databases, SQL, and NoSQL a plus.
• Proficient in C# .NET Core
• Experience developing software in an agile environment and shipping features in a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary team (Product Owners, Designers, Business Analysts, QA, etc.)
• Experience successfully working remotely and/or with geographically dispersed teams.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to remain current on technical updates and apply new knowledge to the job.
• Strong analytical skills to solve and model complex business requirements.
• Sound understanding of software development best practices.
• Ability to collaborate on a cross-disciplinary team with and clearly communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Must exhibit strong professionalism and be effective working with senior management.
• Ability to multitask and effectively manage time.
• Ability to perform tasks and complete projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work on call support including weekends on rotational basis.
• Ability to provide, as well as receive, feedback collaboratively and in a constructive manner.

Contract position with very enticing pay per hour.