Senior/Principal C# Developer

Location: Italy - Remote Project Duration: 4-5 months Commitment: 80% / 3-4 days per week Business Language: Italian, English In your application, please include the following: Why are you fit for the role? Latest available start date? Day rate? Project Summary: A growing e-commerce brand needs a hands-on senior developer to lead platform transition. You’ll audit the current setup, keep the site stable, ship a few high-impact fixes, and add lightweight guardrails (release flow, monitoring, runbooks). You’ll conclude with a clear path forward, whether to keep, refactor, or replace systems so the team can execute confidently. Responsibilities: Rapid discovery: 2–3 week technical audit of the current stack (frontend, backend, DB, hosting, integrations) Feature delivery: scoped improvements to catalog, checkout, admin flows, and content. Automation & quality: set up/right-size CI/CD, basic test coverage, error monitoring, and logs Documentation: architecture map, runbooks, coding standards Roadmap & recommendation: compare keep/refactor/replatform options, with effort, risk, timeline, and costed scenarios; propose a minimal viable path. Knowledge transfer: handover to internal staff or future vendor. Must-have Profile: 5+ years in web product engineering; can act as senior IC + fractional tech lead. Angular 17 (components, routing, state, forms; performance best practices). ASP.NET/C# (Web API, services, clean architecture patterns); SQL proficiency. Building and consuming REST APIs, auth/session, caching, error handling. Practical DevOps: CI/CD, environment config, observability; comfort on common cloud/PaaS. E-commerce experience (catalog, checkout, payments, integrations) is a strong plus. Language requirement: Working knowledge of Italian