Must Have : .Net Core, React / Angular, Basic Cloud
Programming: Proficiency in .NET and Nodejs, TypeScript comfortable shipping in both or very robust in one and conversant in the other
Cloud: Experience deploying and running services on Azure App Service AKS Functions Azure SQL Cosmos DB Storage Key Vault API Management or equivalent services on AWSGCP.
Architecture: Solid grasp of cloud-native patterns 12-factor stateless services health checks circuit breakers retries backoff DDD and event-driven designs
APIs: Practical experience designing and maintaining REST and Graph QL APIs including versioning and schema governance
Data: RDBMS SQL ServerPostgreSQL and at least one NoSQL store Cosmos Mongo; understanding of transactions indexing query tuning Containers
CICD: Docker Kubernetes AKSEKSGKE; build and release pipelines Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions with bluegreen or canary deployments
Observability Ops: Logging metric stracing App Insights Prometheus Grafana alerting on-call readiness; ability to debug production issues quickly Quality: Unit testing frameworks and performance load testing