The Senior Developer role holds responsibility for working closely as part of a team of software developers in the creation of high-quality software applications within an Agile environment and keeping up to date with the latest relevant technological innovations
In addition, this role will be responsible for assisting the Tech & Product Leadership team in building and promoting a positive working environment for the team as well as acting as a technical resource for team members.
What that means day to day
What you’ll need to be successful
1. Be an integral part of the development team, actively forming a deep understanding of and contributing towards development of tools, services and platforms.
2. Review and regularly contribute to the ongoing improvement of team practices and Ways of Working with an aim to making the team more effective and improving delivery. Where appropriate you will lead on delivering changes in working practices.
3. Collaborate with other teams – both within the Technology & Product department and across the business - to identify improvements to existing processes and services or where new services could be developed.
4. Work closely with key stakeholders in the collection and documentation of user requirements and the development of user stories.
5. Plan, write, test and maintain code for web, mobile and desktop business applications in accordance with established standards in an Agile environment
6. Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
7. Work closely with the quality teams to ensure that standards are maintained and improved.
8. Provide third-level support to business users.
9. Adapt and learn to work with other languages/platforms where required.
10. Develop a deep working knowledge of the application, how it is structured, which areas of code are responsible for which functions.
11. Troubleshooting and resolution of helpdesk support tickets
12. Development of new features and functionality within existing products.
13. Translate technical jargon into plain English and effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
14. Contribute to the product roadmap and development of future features and products.
15. Assist in the development of junior team members.
16. You will from time to time be required to undertake other duties of a similar nature as reasonably required by your line manager commensurate with the nature and level of the role.
Essential Skills and Capabilities
17. •NET Framework and .NET Core
18. ASP.NET MVC and Web forms
19. HTML / CSS / SASS
20. RESTful APIs
21. TypeScript / JavaScript
22. SQL Server
23. Entity Framework
24. Senior level experience as a developer with strong understanding of web-based applications
25. Able to communicate with non-technical users and explain complex information in an easy to digest format
26. Highly developed influencing and relationship management skills: both internally and externally
27. Proven track record of building strong client / staff relationships and setting and managing stakeholder’s expectations
28. Self-evaluation and measuring to ensure continued improvement
29. Ability to maintain and develop customer and key stakeholder relationships
30. Ability to identify and develop positive customer experiences
31. Enhance revenue development opportunities at all levels
32. Ability to prioritise and work within deadlines
33. Good organisational skills
34. Ability to work under pressure
35. Self-motivated
Desirable Skills and Capabilities
What you’ll get in return
36. Windows services
37. KnockoutJS / Durandal
38. DevOps experience
39. Familiarity with AWS environments, services and APIs.
40. Continuous Integration
41. Security best practices (OWASP, ISO 27001, ISO 27032)
42. Microservice Architecture
43. Open source contributor
44. Certified Scrum Professional
45. Understanding of principles of scalable applications
46. Familiarity with multiple design and architectural patterns
47. Can leverage asynchronous programming, queuing, caching, logging, security and persistence when appropriate
48. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
49. Ability to inspire and motivate
50. Degree educated in a relevant discipline
FOR THE HERE AND NOW – We provide a mature and flexible ‘work your way’ culture, generous holiday allowance, a ‘giving day’ to give back to others, enhanced family friendly leave (regardless of gender), an employee assistance programme, 24-hour online GP, gym discounts, cover for a variety of healthcare, dental, optical and wellbeing treatments/services, a cycle to work scheme and paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell.
FOR FUN – You spend a significant percentage of your time with your colleagues (and what a great bunch of people they are!) and it’s important to us that everyone contributes to an environment that is positive and full of laughs. We’ve always got something going on, from charity events and competitions to recognition events and awards and we encourage our teams to get involved and have fun along the way.