Remote (UK)
What it's like to work at Landmark:
At Landmark, you'll find a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team that values bold ideas, big dreams, and active curiosity. We foster a culture of innovation, encouraging everyone to contribute to the development and direction of our products and services, while continuously seeking new and efficient ways to work.
Collaboration and sociability are at the heart of what we do, and we take pride in coming together to achieve great things.
We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth, including:
1. Competitive Salary
2. Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option of adding up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
3. Annual Lifestyle Allowance: £300 to spend on an activity of your choice
4. Pension Scheme: Matched up to 6% for the first 3 years, and up to 10% thereafter
5. Private Health Insurance: Provided by Vitality
6. Group Income Protection Scheme
7. Charitable Fundraising: Matched funding for your efforts
8. Cycle to Work and Gym Flex Schemes
9. Internal Coaching and Mentoring: Available throughout your time with us
10. Training and Career Progression: A strong focus on your development
11. Family-Friendly Policies
Join us at Landmark and be part of a team that supports your ambitions and growth, both personally and professionally.
The Opportunity
The Senior Software Engineer will play a key pivotal role in the implementation of Landmark Group products, applications, websites, and tools both external and internal. They will assist the engineering team and product owners in turning project requirements into the appropriate technical tasks for the development team and producing sensible estimates for these tasks.
The Senior Software Engineer will keep abreast of new developments across Landmark and will work with the team to implement best practice within the development area. They will promote better working practices and the adoption of tools that improve the efficiency and/or quality of development within the team. They will use previous experience to assist in the delivery, design, implementation, configuration, and testing of large and complex modules that comprise a Landmark Group product. They will also provide a mentoring role for peers and juniors within the team and across the company, actively seeking opportunities to share their knowledge and experience.
The role will involve:
12. Assisting the implementation and/or configuration of modules/components that comprise the product.
13. Supporting the analysis functions within the team providing detailed technical information where required.
14. Reviewing the work within the team and where appropriate, providing guidance and mentoring.
15. Working with other Senior and Lead Technical Software Engineers through a community of practice and Architecture through sync sessions to share knowledge and gain consistency across teams.
16. Working within a team environment, interpreting program or project objectives, specifications and requirements.
17. Writing applicable program codes and commands, testing and implementing process changes.
18. Troubleshooting complex incidents and issues.
19. Enabling technology-based process improvements and user efficiencies.
20. Work with project and process owners to extend the application into new functional areas.
21. Collaborate with Business Analysts to enrich and expand requirements as well as driving product design.
22. Break down Epics into individual stories that can be assigned to other team members.
23. Review design approaches and conduct code reviews of junior members of the team.
About You
The Senior Software Engineer will be technically competent, highly experienced in software development and trouble shooting. You will be able to communicate effectively, able to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences including non-technical employees. You will also have/be:
24. Strong hands-on experience in the design and development of .Net / C# applications
25. Strong hands-on experience in the design and development of Azure-based application, including Functions and Function Apps
26. BDD and Unit Testing
27. Git
28. Visual Studio and VSCode
29. Experience working in an Agile environment
30. Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) - (Azure preferred)
31. Relational and NoSQL databases (CosmosDb / SQL Server preferred)
32. REST API development
33. Github
34. Experience in Agile, CI/CD, Cloud (Azure preferred)
35. Producer of high-quality routine and non-routine code
36. Experience of coaching and mentoring junior and less experienced team members is essential.
37. A formal qualification in related discipline Developer Senior, Developer Engineering Certifications or Equivalent e.g.: Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals & Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate (MCADA) is advantageous.
38. Ideally educated to degree level