Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

Ding is the world’s leading universal top-up service. Founded in 2006, Ding was born from seeing something that wasn’t there. More than 80% of the world’s 5 billion mobile phones are now prepaid – and growing. We believe mobile phones can change lives and we want to improve people’s lives by helping those with less gain access to more.

Ding is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has employees working across the world!

We are proud of our culturally diverse team of more than 200 employees, all with unique personalities who support our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, potentially life-changing technology to developed and emerging markets alike.

Our aim is to build and run the safest, simplest, most effective and convenient top-up technology, in partnership with the best operators and platforms. We’ll continue to spread joy across the globe helping people everywhere to send little bytes of happiness to their loved ones, keeping our customers connected to their families and friends. Now more than ever we realise the importance of keeping in touch and here at Ding we believe a little goes a long way.

We're always on the lookout for talented people who embody our core values:

• We’re Here To Make A Difference
• We are Thinkers, Linkers & Doers
• We Win Together
• We Imagine Boldly & Build Fast

Job overview:

We’re looking for a talented technology enthusiast, a puzzle solver, who can learn our tools quickly and hey maybe you can suggest some new ones to us too! The role will see you immersed in a team of .NET developers, interacting with other teams such as Architects, Product, QA and DBA to name just a few. You’ll perform hands-on development with our exciting technology stack and play a key part in the design and decision-making process. While the role is hands-on from a coding perspective, there’s also a strong emphasis on being involved with enhancing design, technical standards, improving the development process and the ongoing investigation around new technologies and practices.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Building out web-scale applications and platforms using modern .NET technology
• Working with the latest platforms and tooling including VS2026/Resharper/Rider and .NET 4.8/.NET 8/.NET 10
• Being part of a highly effective team using Kanban methodologies
• Work with exciting Microsoft and Open-Source technologies (Redis, SQS/SNS, Kafka, Lamar/StructureMap, MongoDb and nHibernate)
• Participate in adoption of native AWS cloud technologies
• Slice monoliths into new microservices as Docker containers
• Be part of the whole lifecycle of a feature; from the idea to discussion with the business, delivery, release to production
• Belong to a team who are constantly thinking about efficiency through good practices
• Participate and be listened to in discussion about new features, refactor opportunities, team improvements, new techs etc.

Qualifications & Experience:

• At least 5 years commercial experience in a backend Software Developer role
• Strong testing focus, be able to write "clean" and "well designed code"
• Someone who is not afraid of challenging projects and is open to looking at new ways to resolve them
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Strong team player skills
• Experience with C#, ASP.NET Core Web API, SQL Server and Visual Studio
• Strong team player skills
• Knowledge on front end technologies, architecture design, microservices, design patterns, code refactoring, mocking frameworks and security
• Experience in best practices in application development; including Agile Development, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development and SOLID principles
• Knowledge of modern technology concepts; best practices and patterns including API first development (REST) and HTTP technologies as well as messaging.
• Experience in microservices architecture, cloud providers and docker containers

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