Senior Backend Software Engineer - Join a top ranked, up and coming leading Pharmaceutical Brand & Marketing, Digital Agency

Location: REMOTE (Company headquarter in New Jersey)

Company Size: between 500 - 1,000 Employees

This is a 3 - 6 month contract to hire full time position.

About this role and what we do:

• Agency process for developing websites and related tactics

• How to estimate complex technical projects

• How to write clean, well-documented, sustainable web source code

• Common libraries, frameworks, and MVC patterns utilized in modern web applications

• How to track and manage functional requirements and defects managed in Jira

• How to unit test web applications to ensure high quality, performance, and accessibility

• How to attend, participate, and hold code reviews

• How to manage source code using Git and handle change control

• AWS, Azure, and related cloud infrastructure platforms

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain complex code bases to support back-end web functionality using server-side languages like PHP and C#

• Develop all server-side aspects of functional requirements, including the creation of REST APIs, web services, and CRUD database operations

• Work with tech leads to ensure development team adheres to documented design and development patterns and standards

• Validate code against style guides, layout files, and functional requirements across browsers and devices

• Leverage verbal and written communication skills to communicate project needs and contribute to team initiatives

• Participate in peer code reviews and look for opportunities to assist manager and mentor junior

teammates

• Work with digital producers, project managers, creative professionals, and account service managers to understand client deliverables, functionality expectations, budgets, and timelines

Job Requirements:

• 7+ years of development experience

• Bachelor’s in computer science or information systems

• 3 to 5 years of Sitecore development experience

• Expertise with .NET, C#, ASP, HTML, and SQL

• Working knowledge of Visual Studio

• Experience in MVC architecture

• Experience with Git

• Builds modular, flexible solutions

• Author clean, well-structured, well-documented, and reusable code

• Articulate, detail-oriented communication skills

• Stay abreast of new technology and development trends to provide strategic, creative, and technical solutions agency-wide and to our clients

Bonus Points:

• Agency experience

• Experience working with popular CMS platforms like WordPress, Drupal, AEM, and Kentico

• Practical working experience with PHP

• Experience working in an Agile environment using Jira

• Experience mentoring fellow developers