C# Lead Engineer

Description

C# Lead Engineer on new Marketplace platform
Over the last year we have written a new full-featured Marketplace eCommerce solution from scratch. Our client base is now increasing so we need more development firepower.

We're looking for someone to help us mature and grow the platform to cater for the varied needs of our clients while ensuring it remains unified and coherent and preventing it splintering into a million special cases.

We are a bootstrapped startup which means we need our software to help us out as much as possible. This means it needs to be automated, reliable, flexible, comprehensible. Monitoring and diagnostics are key.

This is a huge task but the rewards are equally great:

reusability is a goal: and nothing is more satisfying for a developer than successful reuse

our clients tend to be startups themselves, so you get to help create not one but multiple new businesses

as an early-stage employee, you can share financially in the success you help bring about

we want to build our team out with talented, self-starting developers. This is an amazing opportunity to work in a developer-led company, using great technology on a product that is getting more and more popular all the time.

Remote working: We welcome applications for remote working for exceptional candidates with fantastic communication skills and a successful track record of remote working.

Qualifications:
Above all you need to be a generalist and a self-starter and see no boundaries to the technical work needed to make things work right. You will bring the size of the core development team to 3 and between us we tackle everything from application code to investigating problems to proactive monitoring to deployments to JavaScript in the browser.

This is a C# project so you really should be very comfortable with C# and .net.

We use RavenDB. If you don't know what this is - go and read about it. Working with it is just brilliant in so many ways. Experience of Raven would be a fantastic bonus but it's so easy to use you can learn it on the job - so not essential.

You should be comfortable with JavaScript and jQuery and at least have an understanding of CSS.

In summary, must-haves:

C#

great communication skills

a can-do attitude

ASP.NET MVC

experience of working in eCommerce or some other fast-moving consumer-facing web app

Experience of any of the following would be helpful:

RavenDB (or other document db)

Lucene

git

building platforms with an configurable workflows, behaviours, themes, plugins, etc

JavaScript / CoffeeScript

Azure

Payment Providers (Stripe, PayPal and others)

About Code Trip
Code Trip is a bootstrapped start up based in London. The co-founders, Gaz & Nick, are .net developers with years of eCommerce experience.

As a development culture, we have many years of working on fast-moving public-facing environments so understand the importance of well-crafted code. On the other hand we are not too easily distracted by new fads. Something needs to make our lives easier before we're going to jump into it feet-first.

We understand the importance of keeping our saws sharp. We have a lot to do and only a few people to do it so time spent preventing a repetitive task is time well spent.

The company is still small so equity will likely form part of the compensation package. We recognise the importance of high-quality developers so between the salary and the equity the compensation will be very competitive.