WPF Developer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (WPF)

6 Month Contract

Interview- 2 Video Interviews

Location- Dallas TX (1st Pref) / NYC (2nd Preference)

Payrate- $65 to 75/hr

Manager Notes:

.Net Development

WPF Expertise (3 years required)

• Strong experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), XAML, data binding, and commands.
• Understanding of Dependency Properties, Attached Properties, and Behaviors.
• Experience with third-party WPF frameworks like Prism or Telerik is a plus.

Position Description:

The Valuations Engineering team is looking for an experienced and ambitious senior WPF developer

to join our team. As a senior WPF Developer, you will be involved in design, development, coding,

customization, configuration, testing, and deployment in support of enterprise thick client applications.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop software solution to meet business requirements.

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.

• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues.

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

• Prepare and maintain code for various applications and resolve any defects in systems.

• Enhance existing systems by analysing business objectives, preparing an action.

• Plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement.

• Monitor defect tracking system and resolve all issues.

• Investigate and develop skills in new technologies.

• Conduct unit testing and perform code reviews.

• Adhere to established methodologies while continuously analysing processes for improved performance

and maintainability.

• Develop technical specifications.

• Participates with EA team in Architecting solutions.

• Design develop, and support applications based on requirements.

• Maintain awareness of development trends and technology improvements.

Required Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Eagerness and willingness to learn new things.

• Extensive understanding of computer science fundamentals.

• Knowledge of design patterns and their use.

• Strong background in object-oriented programming and design principles.

• Ability to multi-task in a team-oriented environment.

• Passion for technology and ability to learn and evaluate new tools, concepts, and challenges quickly.

• Comfortable working under architects, leads, and business analysts.

• Comfortable learning new technologies, best practices, and other technology standards.

• Comfortable working with challenging application environments.

Highly Desirable Skills

• Agile/Scrum experience a plus.

• Experience with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) using WPF.

• Experience with VBA scripting for Office or other exposure to Office COM libraries and SDKs such as

OpenXML.

• Experience with modular injection building composite applications.

• Experience with Reactive Extensions, service buses, and/or other push-based topologies.

• Expert level knowledge of multithreading and other performance optimizations

Other Preferred Skills

• Experience with multiple WPF frameworks and third-party libraries, especially Prism and Telerik.

• Experience with Autofac for Inversion of Control.

• Experience with Domain Driven Design, the Repository Pattern, and other standards to segregate business

and data layer responsibilities.

• Knowledge of Gang of Four design patterns beyond the most used patterns such as Singleton and Factory.

• Experience with Automapper.

• Advanced knowledge of serialization.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps.

Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related degree preferred.

• At least 3 years of dedicated WPF experience using MVVM and other WPF industry standards.

• At least 5 years of dedicated experience developing desktop applications for Windows.

• At least 5 years of experience of development adhering to SOLID principles.

• At least 5 years of experience developing in .NET 4.x.

• At least 3 years of experience with multithreading to include async/await, Tasks, and other .NET threading

tools.

• At least 2 years of experience with Service Oriented Architectures.

• At least 2 years of experience with Inversion of Control frameworks.

• At least 2 years of experience in an Agile environment.