Senior Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Our engineers have a flexible start time, so may well get some work in before a morning standup to review work in progress.
• Pairing with colleagues, you will work on tickets on the team’s Kanban board. This will include activities such as discovery, investigation and spikes, writing tickets, implementation, testing, documentation, build, and release.
• If an incident occurs within your team’s area of ownership, you may be one of the responders who will work to resolve it; this is done in close collaboration with customer-facing teams.
• While many of our services are deployed when changes are made, we operate a release daily for the core of our product. Each team takes their turn; sometimes, it will be your turn to release to production.
• Every two weeks, we have a retrospective to highlight any problems and continuously improve our ways of working.
• Every two weeks, we have an Learning & Development day, where you can work on relevant skills and professional development.

Key Requirements

• Be able to communicate clearly and collaborate with others using these working practices:
  • Pair programming / Extreme programming.
  • Kanban.
  • Test Driven Development.
  • Continuous Integration.
• Have experience building and maintaining web applications in production environments.
  • Common architectural patterns (e.g. layered, hexagonal).
  • Databases (Including concepts like indexes, views and transaction scopes).
  • Performance and monitoring.
  • Security practices (e.g. understanding of OWASP Top 10).
• Be comfortable safely refactoring legacy code.
• Have experience designing databases and improving query performance
• Be able to work alongside client-facing support and product owners to analyse business requirements.
• Be keen to learn new technologies and skills.
• Be receptive to feedback and be able to give constructive feedback.
• Be keen to engage with and continuously improve our core practices and principles; this includes highly collaborative team principles such as knowledge sharing and open communication.

Technologies

Experience of our tech stack is important to this role.  You must have experience with these technologies:

• C# (.NET and .NET Framework, )
• Microsoft SQL Server

Our broader technology stack also includes:

• Azure Cloud (DevOps, Compute, Storage, SQL PaaS, etc.)
• Terraform
• PowerShell