Senior .NET Developer

Orchard Marketing is part of the Enero Group. As a Group, we proudly acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Our Innovate, Level 2, RAP endorsement aims to nurture, develop, encourage, and include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent, partners, and advisors both in our own agency, and across the broader industry. As such, we encourage peoples of all backgrounds to apply.

Technology is changing the world around us and yes, some people tend to focus on why that change is bad – it makes us uncomfortable; it breaks our status quo, it feeds our uncertainty – but at Orchard we choose to see it differently. Technology can make lives better. It can make businesses better, brands better and experiences better. It can be the change we want to see in the world.

Which is why, at Orchard, we rally around a single purpose: to invent better outcomes through creativity and technology. Those better outcomes can only exist in the context of people irrespective of if we label them users, customers, patients or clients.

 

The Opportunity:

We're on the lookout for an experienced .NET Developer to join our Sydney team. You'll be responsible for integrating HTML templates, developing .NET components in Optimizely & services for bespoke and CMS driven web applications. You'll be an expert in implementing content management, application functionality and integration requirements while working within an agile development process.

Working closely with the delivery team and applying industry best practices, you will ensure that all code developed is well architected, clean, consistent, and accurate ensuring that implementation meets in the definition of done.

 

Essential Skills

• 2-3 years of specific experience in developing Optimizely Content
• Management Solutions orother .Net CMS (Sitecore, Umbraco, Kentico)
• 5+ years design and development of building public facing commercial .NET applications
• Solid ASP.NET C# MVC5
• Structured and secure REST APIs based on WebAPI
• Azure SQL and MS SQL Server
• Entity Framework and IoC such as Autofac or StructureMap
• Solid understanding of web standards and technologies (HTTP,
• Request/Response, SSL, Browser
• caching, cookies, domains, JSON/XML, HTML, DOM etc)
• Git workflow
• Mentoring fellow developers
• A champion of good coding standards and design principles

 

Highly Desirable Skills

• Optimizely CMS Developer certification is highly desired
• Development of CMS-driven web applications based on Optimizely/EPiServer, Umbraco, SiteCore or Kentico
• Experience with frontend technologies including as HTML5, CSS3, LESS/SASS and Javascript frameworks such as Vue or React.
• Experience with Atlassian suite including JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and Bamboo
• Digital marketing agency experience
• Experience of e-commerce application development

 

What you can bring

• Solid knowledge of industry best practices and experience on SDLC, software design patterns, Gitflow, peer-review, development methodologies such as Agile / Scrum and iterative-waterfall, coding / accessibility standards, effective documentation and producing maintainable code
• Excellent experience and skills in architecting enterprise level applications, using SOLID principles, separation of concerns and domain driven design.
• Solid experience in continuous Integration and automated deployment, using build scripts, preferable using Bamboo.
• Great communication and leadership skills, strong team player with a friendly and professional attitude
• Solid experience designing a wide range of solutions and leading a team of developers during implementation
• Build relationship and provide expert guidance to clients, understanding their needs, providing solutions, and translating these requirements into actionable development tasks.
• Ability to remain calm and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment, ideally with a digital agency
• Show a strong commitment to the Company’s core values of Collaboration, Integrity & Curiosity.
• Embrace and respect the Company’s community and environmental responsibilities

 

Why Orchard?

We offer an awesome, fun working environment full of culture and energy. We leave our egos at the door and past that door is a super cool office space filled with inspiring people and free crumpets.

 

We pride ourselves on our work, as well as our focus on a healthy work / life balance. We’re 100% committed to you, your career at Orchard and your continued professional and personal development. We offer a rich array of internal and external structured training and education courses as well as ongoing individual wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program.

 

As an agency we fuse enthusiasm, creativity and technology to Invent Better outcomes for leading International and Australian brands such as Hyundai, Genesis, Tourism Tasmania, amaysim, Epson, GSK, Westpac Group, BI and Zoetis, to name a few.

 

Invent Better are two little words that define our big approach. It’s a belief that creativity and technology are the key to winning in today’s digital age, and it’s a formula that challenges us to engage with our clients in a way that always pushes us that little bit further every time.