.Net Developer

Title: .Net Developer

Location: Baltimore, MD (Hybrid Position)

Duration: 6+ Month Contract to Hire

Principal Responsibilities:

Software Development and Implementation

• Implement software using a variety of technologies, languages, and tools (.NET, C#, Python, ASP.NET, SQL/SQL Server/Oracle, etc.) with a focus on software quality
• Design, implement, and perform unit, functional, integration, and system testing. Partner with end users by developing test plans and test cases and supporting user testing
• Participate in deployments of changes to test and production environments
• Work with external vendors and other counterparties to design, develop, integrate, and test systems

Business Analysis

• Work with internal stakeholders to build and document requirements and develop full system designs
• Assist with maintaining the product backlog to prioritize work within the team and with internal stakeholders

Process and System Improvement

• Identify opportunities for improvements to existing systems and processes.
• Produce and keep up-to-date system and process documentation for developers and stakeholders.

Technical Expertise

• Mentor peers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Take ownership of and act as subject matter expert on the trading execution and related systems to recommend and implement good design principles.

Production Support

• Provide as-needed support for trading technologies during normal business hours as well as occasional off-hours.
• Own ticket triage, rootcause analysis, and postmortem documentation.

Decision making authority

• Prioritize work and feature deliveries to meet deadlines.
• Determine component architecture and database designs
• Guides management to determine future direction of overall system architectures

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent professional experience and training.
• 3+years of professional experience developing in C#/.NET (or a comparable objectoriented language).
• 3+years of handson experience with SQL Server, Oracle, or another relational database platform.
• Proven ability to apply sound softwaredesign and systemarchitecture principles.
• Working knowledge of Python.
• Handson experience with CI/CD pipelines, sourcecontrol systems, and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication capable of translating complex technical ideas to nontechnical audiences.
• Selfmotivated, organized, and equally comfortable working independently or within crossfunctional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and authoring directed acyclic graph (DAG) code
• Knowledge of financial instruments (futures, forwards, equities, fixedincome, options) and tradingexecution workflows.
• Handson experience with software testing unit, integration, or endtoend.
• Prior experience managing projects.
• Understanding of financial technologies (FIX, Bloomberg API, etc.)
• Knowledge of Microsoft middleware and security technologies WCF, MSMQ/Service Bus, Windows Services, AD, and related security patterns.