• 12+ years of hands-on backend software engineering and enterprise application development experience.
• Strong expertise in C#, .NET
• Strong experience designing and developing cloud-native backend services and APIs.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with serverless and container technologies, such as Azure Functions,AWS Lambda, Kubernetes/AKS, ECS/Fargate, GKE, or Cloud Run.
• Strong experience with event-driven and workflow technologies, such as Durable Functions, Step Functions, Temporal, Kafka, Event Hub, Pub/Sub, SNS, or SQS.
• Strong enterprise integration experience with REST, SOAP, API gateways, SFTP/PGP, message queues, polling, retry, idempotency, and deduplication.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, RBAC/IAM, TLS, encryption, secrets management, and Secure SDLC practices.
• Strong data engineering experience with SQL Server/PostgreSQL, NoSQL platforms, data modeling, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, audit trails, and performance tuning.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Azure Government, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent DevOps tooling.
• Strong experience with automated testing, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and production diagnostics.
• Ability to independently execute complex backend development assignments and deliver high-quality production software.