Senior Software Consultant

ParentPay Group; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

ParentPay Group seeks a permanent, full-time Backend Developer to design and optimize APIs for FMS reports in Pune, India. You will work in the Development department, contributing to scalable, secure backend solutions and data access layers with Azure services.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, API design, and mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative team. You will collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Managers, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver robust

Qualifications

• Proven backend API development experience.
• Strong knowledge of .NET and C#.
• Experience with Azure App Services and Functions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
• Identify and resolve technical debt through refactoring and modernization initiatives.
• Perform peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Ensure adherence to Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, and secure coding guidelines.
• Mentor junior developers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Assist team members in troubleshooting complex technical issues.
• Conduct technical walkthroughs and code review sessions.
• Design APIs, database schemas, and integration strategies.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend the best solution based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create test cases, perform unit testing and self-review before raising PRs.
• Break down large features into manageable technical tasks.
• Analyse bottlenecks and optimize performance.
• Improve database efficiency through indexing and query optimization.
• Optimize API response times and resource utilization.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Support production deployments and release activities.
• Participate in RCA and production issue investigations.

Skills

C#

.NET 8

ASP.NET Core

REST API

Dapper

Dependency Injection

Multithreading

SQL

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Description

The person for this role will develop the APIs, optimizing the queries and API for the reports in FMS team. This will enable the delivery of the FMS reports that will be used by the FMS users with different roles. The users of the reports will be required for monitoring, analysis and for compliance purpose.

Department:

Development

Employment Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Location:

Pune, India

Reporting To:

Saurabh Sethi

Description

The person for this role will develop the APIs, optimizing the queries and API for the reports in FMS team. This will enable the delivery of the FMS reports that will be used by the FMS users with different roles. The users of the reports will be required for monitoring, analysis and for compliance purpose.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
• Identify and resolve technical debt through refactoring and modernization initiatives.
• Perform peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Ensure adherence to Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, and secure coding guidelines.
• Mentor junior developers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Assist team members in troubleshooting complex technical issues.
• Conduct technical walkthroughs and code review sessions.
• Design APIs, database schemas, and integration strategies.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend the best solution based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create test cases, perform unit testing and self-review before raising Pull Requests (PRs), ensuring adherence to coding standards.
• Should be able to break down large features into manageable technical tasks.
• Analyse application bottlenecks and optimize performance.
• Improve database efficiency through indexing, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.
• Optimize API response times and resource utilization.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Support production deployments and release activities.
• Participate in production issue investigations and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Understanding of Azure App Services, Functions, Key Vault, Storage, and Application Insights.
• Work closely with Solution Architects, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
• Participate in backlog refinement and technical estimation.
• Own full accountability of the tasks assigned and its resolution

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Backend

• C#
• .NET 8 / .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core Web API
• ASP.NET MVC
• Dependency Injection
• REST API Development
• Multithreading & Asynchronous Programming
• Dapper

API Documentation

• Swagger / OpenAPI

Security & Authentication

• JWT Bearer Authentication
• OpenID Connect
• Cookie Authentication
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Claims-Based Authentication

Database

• SQL Queries
• Views
• Stored Procedures
• Functions
• SQL Query Optimization
• Database Performance Optimization
• Query Tuning
• Indexing
• Transaction Handling
• Database Design & Normalization
• MongoDB

DevOps

• GitHub
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Git / GitHub
• Azure DevOps Repositories
• Code Review Processes

Logging, Monitoring & Observability

• Serilog
• Application Insights
• Structured Logging
• Telemetry
• Application Monitoring
• Performance Diagnostics
• Error Analysis and Troubleshooting

Good to have

Architecture & Engineering Practices

Strong Understanding And Implementation Experience In

• Clean Architecture
• SOLID Principles
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• CQRS Pattern
• MediatR
• Repository Pattern
• Unit of Work Pattern
• Design Patterns
• Microservices Architecture

Cloud & Azure Technologies

• Azure App Services
• Azure Storage
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Application Insights
• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure API Management