Software Engineer

Position Summary 

An Effectual Software Engineer designs, develops, and deploys cloud-based applications for our clients. You will collaborate with teams, including architects and project managers, to ensure the delivery of high-quality cloud solutions. They report to the Software Engineering Manager. 

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Software Engineer 

A Software Engineer will spend the bulk of their time collaborating with their assigned project team. Most projects at Effectual follow a 2-week sprint cadence. Throughout the duration of a sprint, a Software Engineer will participate in daily stand-ups where they communicate progress made since the last check in, re-evaluate any estimates, agree on priorities for the day, and voice any blockers that the team needs to be made aware of. A Software Engineer will work through their assigned tasks in priority order, assist the team with any issues that arise through Slack or ad-hoc meetings, perform peer code reviews, and support the grooming and estimation of tasks in preparation for future sprints. At the completion of a sprint, a Software Engineer will demo their work to the team members. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provide technical support and innovative cloud solutions in alignment with business objectives, by designing, architecting, maintaining, and operationalizing cloud-based .NET applications and systems on the AWS Cloud. 

• Design, implementing, integrating, maintaining, optimizing, and administering cloud solutions, infrastructures, and platforms. 

• Evaluate, test, design, develop, and integrate new cloud technologies and processes to support existing infrastructure and modernization efforts and provides recommendations for future technologies and growth 

• Support and maintain existing software functionality; to investigate, analyze and correct identified defects 

• Improve the maintainability and performance of existing software through application refactoring 

• Independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment. 

• Perform pull requests / merge requests, branch management, and build and deployments 

• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple stacks 

• Review technical design documentation and participates in technical reviews 

• Create proper documentation for software being built 

 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, IS, or related field 

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering 

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 

Skills Required  

• .Net experience you can design and architect complex enterprise-level applications that involve multiple layers and services. 

• Proficiency in C# and modern .NET frameworks (.NET 6/8+, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core) 

• Experience with .NET cloud-native patterns including microservices architecture and containerization (Docker) 

• Knowledge of .NET testing frameworks (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest) 

• Experience with AWS services for .NET applications (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway) 

• Familiarity with .NET package management (NuGet) and dependency injection patterns 

• Understanding of Entity Framework Core or other .NET ORMs for cloud database integration