Software Architect

Company: alligatortek
Location: Chicago
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Do you find creative technological solutions to solve problems? Have you had successful experiences delivering a solution that is exactly what the business wants? Are you known for your ability to learn new technology? Alligatortek is looking for a Software Architect who is creative, talented, and technically savvy. This individual should have experience in the analysis of mobile and web-enabled applications, and strong management skills. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team of developers in delivering quality applications for our clients.?This position will define the technical direction of our projects. The candidate must have the ability to understand the requirements from our clients and translate them into an architecture for the project. There is not much hands-on coding on the specific projects, but some coding will be done to the frameworks. Qualified candidates will possess: + 8+ years: experience in full life cycle software development + 8+ years: Full stack web development using ASP.Net MVC, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap + 8+ years: C#, Visual Studio, Entity Framework + 8+ years: SQL/T-SQL, designing databases, stored procedures, functions + 3+ years: Typescript, JavaScript, jQuery. + Be able to produce testable code (simple, low-coupling) + Proficient with Git (branching, merging, pull-requests, and associated workflows) + Passionate about learning and evangelizing new practices and technologies + Energized by interacting with clients, gathering and understanding business needs + Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications as well as assist in envisioning the scope of the projects + Ability to coach and mentor developers at different skill levels Additional attributes at which we look favorably include: + The ability to manage a task board in Azure DevOps (TFS/VSTS), preferably also with experience configuring build and release definitions. + Experience with cloud-native structures: Serverless functions, managed app-services, API gateways, etc + .NET Core (mostly for REST API development) + Hands on experience with AWS and/or Azure + Xamarin or another mobile platform experience + Front-end framework (Angular or React or Vue) exposure and/or other experience with SPAs (Single-Page Applications) + NoSQL Databases (like MongoDB, CosmosDB, etc.) + Experience documenting APIs with Swagger + Use of ODATA + Have worked with SyncFusion suite of components Here are a few benefits we offer for the "right" candidate: A salary that will match your market value, PTO, extra holidays off, employee focused culture, superb health, dental and vision insurance, 401k matching, yearly bonus, kitchen stocked with coffee, tea, snacks and beer! Most importantly, a company culture which values its employees above all else.

Keywords: alligatortek, Chicago , Software Architect, IT / Software / Systems , Chicago, Illinois