Backend Engineer

Argus Media, Can be based anywhere

Backend Engineer

Salary Not Specified

Argus Media, Can be based anywhere

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted today, 26 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 137fabb52fe642ac9b8862ecf4667f65

Full Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for a British media company. You will work with the existing London and Ukraine development teams.

Argus Media analyses the world market in oil, gas, metals and other raw materials. They collect and maintain complex data sets to help their customers understand the market, providing analysis, visualization, and expert opinion daily.
This role will work on refactoring/replacing a price discovery application aiming at improving performance, scalability and time to market. You will contribute directly to the quality of application design and implementation and will work with market domain experts.

Tech Stack:
- .NET 6+
- AWS: Lambda, Step functions, API Gateway, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS Aurora,
DynamoDb, SQS/SNS
- Messaging: RabbitMQ, PubSub, Web Sockets
- Tools: everything from JetBrains (Rider, DataGrip, etc.), Dynatrace, SonarQube, LucidCharts, Octopus,
TeamCity, Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, Jira, Opsgenie
- RealTime, Low Latency
- Codebase is modern and is less than 3 years old

Responsibilities:
- Design and implement new APIs and services in a low latency environment
- Review code from junior staff and maintain code quality
- DevOps - we are responsible for what we implement., Be a senior engineer with control of technical decisions and architecture (no top-down architecture)
- Free access to O'Reilly Books Online and Udemy
- Managers will help to build a personal development plan and grow
- Annual Salary review
- No overtime. 40 hours per week maximum.
- Developer-friendly environment, clever friendly colleagues. Minimum corporate interference.

Fluent English
- Ability to understand systems
- Experience in developing full applications
- Keen to learn, open to new ideas, team player
- 5+ years of development (.NET/C#)
- Patterns and Refactoring skills, CleanCode, optimization
- Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
- APIs (REST, Minimal, gRPC)
- Messaging: RabbitMQ, PubSub, Web Sockets
- [optional] AWS

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