Must Have (Requirements)

1) Core Tech Stack (Hands-on)

• C# / .NET back-end development experience (production systems)
• Angular front-end development experience (production systems)
• JavaScript / TypeScript proficiency for modern web development
• MySQL (Required) experience in application development contexts
• Ability to read/write non-trivial SQL
• Strong understanding of:
• Joins (inner/outer), grouping/aggregation
• Indexing fundamentals and query behavior
• Basic query tuning / performance adjustments
• Note: Advanced DBA skills are not required, but “basic SQL” is not enough

2) API & Architecture Experience

• REST APIs (Must)
• RESTful API design and implementation
• Understanding of API principles:
• Contracts, inputs/outputs
• Status codes and error handling
• Versioning / maintaining APIs in production
• Microservices architecture experience (Must)
• Hands-on experience supporting services in production
• Understanding of:
• Service-to-service communication
• Distributed system behavior and failure modes
• Ownership/operational responsibility for services

3) Full-Stack Delivery

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end web applications (UI + backend + DB)
• Strong understanding of API integration and practical system integration patterns

4) Engineering Fundamentals (Major evaluation focus)

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals
• Clean class design
• Proper encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance
• Demonstrated Clean Code practices
• Readable, maintainable, structured code
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing codebase and follow team standards
• Experience with:
• CI/CD pipelines
• Testing (unit and integration)
• Familiarity with common design patterns (e.g., decorator and others)

5) Experience Level

• 3–5 years of professional experience (no more then 9 years)
• True mid-level hands-on contributor (not junior)

6) Execution & Operating Mindset

• Ownership & production mindset
• Responsible end-to-end: implementation → testing → release → production
• Awareness of how failures impact real customer/service outcomes
• Comfortable debugging issues post-release
• Comfortable working in:
• Fast releases (weekly)
• High-visibility systems with tight feedback loops
• Experience using:
• GitHub, Jira, Confluence
• Comfortable in:
• Weekly sprints and rapid iteration

Nice to Have (Preferred)

•            Redis experience (part of stack; not required)

•            Experience with PostgreSQL (in addition to MySQL)

•            Event-driven / messaging mindset (Kafka-like thinking, even if not explicit)

o            Understanding asynchronous workflows, eventual consistency concepts, and pub/sub patterns

•            Prior experience working in service operations, logistics, workflow-heavy platforms, or other high-throughput internal tools