.net/C# Developer - Senior

Senior .NET/C# Developer (6‑10 years equivalent) on the Online Security Technologies team, responsible for designing, developing, and supporting a mission‑critical Authentication platform. Location: Austin, Texas. Contract position, 8 am – 5 pm.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of organizational software products through QA, UAT, and Production phases.
• Collaborate with product owners and key stakeholders across Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Partner with the Scrum Master and product owner to provide accurate development sizing and cost‑analysis estimates.
• Work alongside the product owner and team members on story decomposition, feature design, and task prioritization.
• Utilize automated testing tools and frameworks, including test‑driven development, to uphold software quality standards.
• Support identity and credential management system for authentication between internal and external client systems.
• Help resolve needs and remove roadblocks identified by team members in collaboration with the Scrum Master.
• Coordinate individual team deliverables to facilitate successful product releases.
• Identify technology risks promptly and implement mitigation strategies.
• Conduct regular reviews and code‑quality improvement sessions with both onshore and offshore developers, emphasizing requirements specification and design methodologies.
• Prototype, validate, and develop tailored application solutions to address business requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Over 7 years of hands‑on application programming and/or test‑automation framework experience within an Agile development environment.
• Proficient in software development using .NET technologies.
• At least 3 years of demonstrated leadership in delivering and driving the adoption of technical innovations across teams.
• Strong familiarity with Agile/Lean development and testing methodologies, including Test‑Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience working with databases such as MongoDB and Aerospike.
• Knowledge of authentication protocols such as Kerberos, certificate‑based authentication, and Ping Identity solutions.
• Skilled in testing RESTful web services using test‑automation frameworks; capable of parsing nested JSON and XML.
• Experience with SOAP is advantageous.
• Proven ability to perform effectively under pressure in challenging environments.
• Proficient with source‑control systems and Agile tools including Bitbucket, Jira, Zephyr, Bamboo, and Git.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Background in CI/CD environments (e.g., Bamboo), including creating, modifying, and executing jobs from scratch using Git as a source‑control system.
• Expertise in troubleshooting production issues through analysis of logs (Splunk), dashboards, and metrics.
• Previous experience within the financial services or brokerage industry.

Skills

• Agile, Agile development
• API development
• AI development
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Server‑side applications
• High availability
• System architecture
• Authentication & Security Technologies
• Mentoring
• Throughput and scalability

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) and life insurance
• Short‑term disability
• 401(k) plan (eligibility‑based)

Pay

$60.43 – $63.43 per hour

Schedule

8 am – 5 pm