Company Overview:
Our success lies at the powerful intersection of people and technology. Bringing innovative training and education solutions to more than 2 million customers a year, Certus enables lifelong learners at every level from trusted industry brands, such as Amazon, Siemens, Geico and Chick-fil-A, to individual learners seeking to enter, sustain or advance their careers. Our people… come with a get-it-done spirit and a desire to impact a rapidly growing industry. Certus is committed to continuously evolving to ensure a culture where employees can be themselves, do their best work, and thrive, both professionally and personally. We choose to be a remote workforce so we can hire top talent regardless of location all while empowering employees to work from wherever they choose. Innovative, brave, kind and diverse are defining traits of our team. Our talent is positioned in numerous roles, with opportunity for internal mobility, such as software engineers, instructional designers, creative writers, consultative sales professionals, innovative marketers and more.
Job Overview:
The .Net Software Engineer is responsible for providing technical requirements for an entire feature albeit on a relatively small scale. The requirements provided by Platform Owners will be reviewed by Senior Software Engineers as part of the sprint planning process to ensure all the information required to spec out the architectural details exist to create functional features. The Software Engineer should also be able to begin translating this information into actionable steps and have a grounded understanding of the implementation that needs to be done after the requirements are in place. The Software Engineer should feel comfortable discussing architectural decisions with the development team and business objectives with leadership.
Responsibilities:
Identify most common use cases and known edge cases
Processes the requirements by prioritizing and removing any unnecessary ones
Clearly documents the requirements in a shared space
Reviews and validates consistency and coverage of requirements with product owners and technical team
Creates technical designs for medium sized features and/or modules with minimal direction
Designs efficient, scalable, and secure features that represent the requirements and user scenarios
Balances performance and maintainability
Implements intermediate architecture tasks at the feature, module and component levels
Uses debugging tools to reproduce and find defects
Finds most bugs and other quality related issues with their features/code
Works directly with QA to demo work and ensure it satisfies acceptance criteria
Participate in technical discussions with the larger team to help innovate and identify areas of improvement
Requirements:
Experience developing web applications with C#, .Net and Blazor
Ability to document requirements and specifications
Four (4) to eight (8) years of relevant experience
Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework
Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs preferred
Publish/subscribe messaging using Azure Service Bus
Familiarity with microservice architecture
Strong understanding of object-oriented design
Experience with writing C# unit tests, Playwright web testing also preferred
Performance Expectations:
Able to define Definition of Done for software features, solutioning with input from Platform Owners and Senior Software Engineers
Able to deliver on time
Able to deliver high-quality, maintainable code
EEO Statement: Certus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws
