Senior C# Developer

A bit about us

Picup is a SaaS logistics management platform for medium-large businesses who require an integrated tech-driven solution from the distribution centre to the customer. Our Fleet Management System is a sophisticated web-based platform and driver mobile app with telematics that gives complete visibility to manage and track your entire fleet. Picup additionally has our own fleet of drivers that powers on demand and scheduling delivery technologies, with ambitions to expand into other logistics segments. These versatile technologies power us to be the number one logistics platform in Africa.

Are you curious, innovative and passionate? Do you take ownership, embrace challenges, and love problem-solving?

A Software Developer (.NET/C#) who will help us continue to build industry disruptive tech products and revolutionise the way our customers use technology. 

You want to

• Design and develop scalable web applications and APIs for global use
• Write high quality code that adheres to coding standards and is performant
• Work with state-of-the-art design patterns and technologies such as Event Sourcing/Event Store
• Work with real-time distributed systems and queueing technologies
• Create and modify functions and stored procedures in SQLServer
• Be independent and take full responsibility for development of modules / features
• Work with UX/UI designers to implement user-friendly solutions
• Introduce new technologies into the team based on fit and suitability to deliver a solution
• Be able to deep dive into the technical aspects needed for application runtime and cost optimisation, including SQL optimisation and database indexing 

You have

• Bachelor Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience
• Extensive experience in programming with C# (.Net Core and .Net Framework 4 and above)
• Strong experience in working with Relational Databases, experience in SQLServer and PostgreSQL a plus
• Experience in consuming and feeding Web API's (SOAP / REST) from first and third parties
• Strong understanding of SQL
• Strong knowledge and understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns
• Experience using source control technologies such as Git and SVN Additional Experience (Plus)
• Mapping technologies such as Google Maps/OpenStreetMap
• Experience designing microservices, and distributed applications
• Queueing technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• CQRS and Event Sourcing design patterns
• Strong knowledge of a cloud platform (Azure and GCP)
• Agile development methodologies
• Performance/analytics tools for databases and server-side applications
• Continuous integration and deployment technologies (Github actions, azure pipelines)
• Knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Unit testing, integration testing, test driven development, static code analysis
• Onsite work