Senior C Developer (Microservices)

A bit about us

Picup is a SaaS logistics management platform for medium-large businesses who require an integrated tech-driven solution from the distribution centre to the customer. Our Fleet Management System is a sophisticated web-based platform and driver mobile app with telematics that gives complete visibility to manage and track your entire fleet. Picup additionally has our own fleet of drivers that powers on demand and scheduling delivery technologies, with ambitions to expand into other logistics segments. These versatile technologies power us to be the number one logistics platform in Africa.

Are you curious, innovative and passionate Do you take ownership, embrace challenges, and love problem-solving

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Senior Software Developer (.NET/C#)

who will help us continue to build industry disruptive tech products and revolutionise the way our customers use technology.

You want to

Design and develop scalable web applications and APIs for global use

Write high quality code that adheres to coding standards and is performant

Work with state-of-the-art design patterns and technologies such as Event Sourcing/Event Store

Work with real-time distributed systems and queueing technologies

Create and modify functions and stored procedures in SQLServer

Be independent and take full responsibility for development of modules / features

Work with UX/UI designers to implement user-friendly solutions

Introduce new technologies into the team based on fit and suitability to deliver a solution

Be able to deep dive into the technical aspects needed for application runtime and cost optimisation, including SQL optimisation and database indexing

You have

Bachelor Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience

Extensive experience in programming with C# (.Net Core and .Net Framework 4 and above)

Strong experience in working with Relational Databases, experience in SQLServer and PostgreSQL a plus

Experience in consuming and feeding Web API's (SOAP / REST) from first and third parties

Strong understanding of SQL

Strong knowledge and understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns

Experience using source control technologies such as Git and SVN Additional Experience (Plus)

Mapping technologies such as Google Maps/OpenStreetMap

Experience designing microservices, and distributed applications

Queueing technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

CQRS and Event Sourcing design patterns

Strong knowledge of a cloud platform (Azure and GCP)

Agile development methodologies

Performance/analytics tools for databases and server-side applications

Continuous integration and deployment technologies (Github actions, azure pipelines)

Knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Unit testing, integration testing, test driven development, static code analysis