Principal Back-end Engineer for XTEL

SELECT* is a professional team of recruiting specialists who are searching for talents in Ukraine, Europe, and the USA. Currently, we are looking for a Principal Back-end Engineer for XTEL.

Principal Backend Developer will be in charge of product design and implementation, implementing and architecting solutions to support field sales management and trade optimization processes and manage their complex planning and execution activity. You will be at the base of the transformation of the solution to SaaS, with a focus on identifying areas to be refactored and transformed into services.

Principal Back-End Developer will:

1. Lead the development and refactoring of advanced product capabilities, analyzing key information, and transforming it into insightful technical recommendations;
2. Support design reviews to ensure solutions fit architecture, security, scalability, and maintainability guidelines;
3. Gather requirements, design and implement the product/capabilities, lead development, deploy, and monitor the service in production;
4. Provide development estimates of the new features and enhancements together with other Scrum team members;
5. Provide engineering leadership and contribute to engineering community, standards & best practices;
6. Develop and maintain software to ensure quality, responsiveness, efficiency, security, modifiability, extensibility, and performance;
7. Work closely with other staff, such as other Scrum team members, project managers, UX designers, other developers, systems analysts, and sales and marketing professionals, on a complex SaaS solution mainly based on Microsoft technologies and hosted on Azure;
8. Help implement and architect how they provide solutions to support field sales management and trade optimization processes and manage their complex planning and execution activity.

A great candidate will have:

1. Advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Programming (OOP);
2. Experience in legacy code refactoring;
3. Demonstrable experience in C# programming;
4. Real-life experience applying SOLID principles and Design Patterns;
5. Experience writing Unit Tests & Integration Tests;
6. Fluent English, since you will use it every day to communicate with colleagues across Europe;
7. Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;
8. Knowledge in the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications;
9. Demonstrable experience working in a microservice-oriented architecture;
10. Experience with databases query performance tuning/troubleshooting;
11. Experience in the Consumer Goods/Retail sector and in specific commercial processes (trade promotions, sales agreement, sales force automation, incentives management, retail execution) will be advantageous.

What you will get?

1. Challenging position in a fast-growing Revenue Growth and Trade Promotion Management software company;
2. Being part of a young and international team with strong ownership and a can-do mentality;
3. Opportunity to actively contribute to the further growth of the organization;
4. An international multidisciplinary setting and close cooperation with the business;
5. Flexible working with the possibility of hybrid work (the company HQ is based in Bologna).