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Prashant Lakhlani
Prashant Lakhlani

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5 Skills to look for when hiring .NET Core Developer for your Enterprise REST API Project

Are planning to start your Enterprise REST API project in .NET Core in 2023? If yes, we recommend you consider checking these 5 most important skills when you hire your .NET Core Developers or Team.

1. Communication 📱

Good written and verbal communication skills will be needed for requirement understanding, asking questions, reporting status and interacting with other team members.

2. RESTful API best practices 📃

Understanding and following RESTFul API best practices will make your APIs consistent and obvious to the consumers. Developers knowing these practices will do things in right way the very first time.

3. Securing APIs 🔐

Good understanding of how to secure the APIs is the must have skills not only for a REST API developer but any developer as you must implement security best practices from day 1 of your development.

4. Documentation 🗄

Understanding of Open API and automated documentation like Swagger will help create documentation that will reduce huge amount of friction between back-end and front-end teams.

5. Testing 🧪

Writing unit tests are most important as it will repay once you grow over the period of time. Developer with good understanding of how to write minimal and proper unit tests will be an asset to the team.

Conclusion

Enterprise REST API development team requires many other skills, frameworks, tools, best practices, guidelines to make it successful.

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