Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Recast Software as a Senior Software Engineer and play a key role in shaping the future of our application platform. Collaborate with senior technical leaders to execute on the architectural roadmap, balancing time to market with technical advancement. Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion best practices. Leverage your database expertise to enhance system design and guide team members. Contribute to the development and maintenance of our flagship application delivery product, ensuring its continued market leadership. This role requires strong expertise in the Microsoft tech stack and database technologies, with experience in REST APIs and JavaScript/TypeScript. The position is based in Utrecht, Netherlands, with occasional office visits.

Requirements

• Expertise in the Microsoft tech stack specifically C#, .NET Core, and T-SQL
• Strong database knowledge with MS SQL Server and SQL scripting
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries, locking and upsert patterns
• Skilled in database administration tasks such as backup and recovery, performance tuning, and security management
• Knowledgeable in in-memory database technologies, which provide high-speed data processing by storing data in the main memory
• Familiar with popular in-memory databases such as Redis and Memcached
• Capable of implementing and managing in-memory databases to enhance application performance and scalability
• Experience with REST APIs (OData v4)
• Understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Dutch and English
• A business-level proficiency in both languages is crucial for daily operations and potential client interactions

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other senior technical leaders to update and execute on the architectural roadmap to enable Recast’s growth
• Work with others to determine the appropriate tradeoff between time to market and technical advancement
• With others, choose and pilot new technologies to improve team effectiveness. You’ll think creatively to address problems and partner with the team on innovative solutions
• Lead code reviews and participate/lead in software design reviews
• Mentor and train software engineers. You like to coach team members, and you like to be coached to grow your knowledge
• Strong advocate of engineering best practices
• Leverage database expertise to enhance system design and provide technical guidance to team members
• Work with the Application Workspace team to strengthen the market-leading position of our application delivery product
• Enhance the overall capabilities of our End-to-End Application Management for Modern Hybrid Environments
• Active member of the Application Workspace scrum team responsible for application code, test code, and overall effectiveness of software
• Support the entire SDLC – from listening to customers, to designing, developing, and maintaining applications, to assisting support and managing the production environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with developing for Windows, macOS and Linux
• Expertise is front end frameworks like React
• Experience with systems administration (Windows/macOS)
• Experience designing highly scalable SaaS solutions
• Fundamental understanding of building cloud-based solutions (Azure)
• Experience with developing on-premise software
• Experience in deploying and managing databases in cloud environments
• Proficient in using cloud database services such as Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, and Google Cloud SQL
• Skilled in database migration, scaling, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery in cloud-hosted databases
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Azure Cosmos DB

Benefits

• In addition to salary, cash compensation for this role also includes 10% annual discretionary company bonus potential
• Salary will vary based on experience, skills, and location
• Commuting allowance
• Internet reimbursement
• Pension
• Company laptop
• Company cell phone or reimbursement
• Work-life balance and remote work options