Escher Group

Escher is transforming postal and courier operations worldwide, enabling posts to engage today’s digitally savvy customers across all points of engagement. With Escher’s unique, purpose-built customer engagement platform, posts drive superior customer experience, with greater speed and better economics.

Position Overview

The Software Engineer (.NET) is responsible for developing and extending business applications for our clients.  Using the Agile Scrum methodology, you will be working in sprints to implement and extend applications for Escher clients on a variety of environments including WPF, UWP, iOS, and Android.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The development and extension of features for Escher clients on the Escher core platform
• Utilize best practices and design patterns to write clean, efficient, and elegant code
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving technical issues
• Writing Unit Tests
• Assisting with the design and architecture of new features
• Performance tuning applications
• Participating in code reviews
• Serve as team lead for small scrum team consisting of multiple Escher developers
• Translate user requirements into design and associated stories in JIRA
• Mentoring and assisting other members of the development team
• Assist with the onboarding of new software developers

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 5+ years of software development experience using .Net/C# for Windows, Desktop, and Mobile apps
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft .NET framework and specifically C#
• Experience working with mobile devices
• Experience with full project lifecycle
• Knowledge of Xamarin or WPF (desirable)
• Experience in POS development with peripheral integration (desirable)
• Data-driven UI architecture (desirable)
• Previous experience leading or mentoring other technical resources

 Personal Skills

• Good problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated
• Willingness to keep up with the latest technology trends
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Willingness to train and mentor others

 Technical Skills

• .NET / C# / .NET Core
• PCL & Shared Code
• WPF
• MVVM
• XAML
• Xamarin Forms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, UWP)
• NUnit / NSubstitute
• XML & JSON

What We Have to Offer

Escher offers a competitive compensation package, health benefits, and training allowance. Most importantly, a career at Escher is one that is both rich and rewarding with many opportunities and room for growth. This is truly a unique opportunity to be part of an exceptional team, helping to transform some of the biggest organizations in the world, and influencing the future of postal operations. If you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you!

Your Career with Escher

Escher is transforming postal and courier operations worldwide, enabling posts to engage today’s digitally savvy customers across all points of engagement.  Working to support customers on four continents across 35 countries, Escher’s unique, purpose-built customer engagement platform, drives superior customer experience with greater speed and better economics.  Our customers are among the largest postal operators and couriers on the planet and our purpose-built-customer engagement platform is helping them to profitably engage customers anywhere, anytime.

At Escher, we believe our people are our greatest strength.  In addition to a competitive compensation package, health benefits, and training allowance, Escher will work with you by providing the support and growth opportunities you need to develop an exceptional and fulfilling career.  You will have the support of an experienced leadership team and a group of dedicated employees that have been helping postal operators redefine customer engagement for over 30 years.

If you are looking for a rewarding career and you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you.

Escher is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative actions and measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.