Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - .NET / Angular is required by fast growing, highly successful organisation based in Oxford

This opportunity is to work with their Software Engineering Team scoping out new potential developments and redevelopments of our online platform used by their clients. They are striving to digitally transform all areas of the company and require a strong, capable, and structured senior software developer to help achieve this. Their developments are predominantly web applications and support all areas of the business.

Main accountabilities

· Able to champion technical best practices within the team

· Design and development of well-structured modular systems which utilise efficient code that follows our in-house coding & quality standards

· Collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions

· Deliver technical solutions to a variety of complex problems and provide appropriate estimations

· Effective and meaningful documentation of systems to ensure ease of support and modification in the future

· Investigate and problem solve unknown problems and deliver working solutions

· Visibility of project progress, to ensure that projects are delivered to agreed deadlines and targets

· Mentoring across the team to drive standards

 · Ongoing personal development to ensure that the latest development tools and techniques can be utilised where appropriate

· Provision of timely and effective support to existing systems and solutions

· Excellent collaboration with colleagues and internal customers, to ensure that development sprint targets are met and that customer expectations are met

· Collaboration with product experts within IT and other areas of the business to ensure that a unified approach to data integration is adopted and those project dependencies are identified and managed appropriately

· To work flexibly, which may on occasion involve out of office business hours including early mornings, evenings, and weekends

· Willing to work on varied platforms and pick up new technologies relevant to the business need

· To exhibit security best practices and guide the team in the area This job description indicates the role and responsibilities but should not be construed as an exhaustive list of duties that the post holder may be asked to undertake.

Requirements specific to the role

You will:

· Have a minimum of a BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related field, other professional management training

· Extensive  experience in at least 6 of the following:  C# .Net / .Net Framework . Angluar or another Typescript SPA,  CSS, SASS, SQL Server 2012+ , Docker

· In-depth knowledge of software interfacing processes and technologies including web services and APIs

· Thorough understanding of the complete software development lifecycle

· Experience in using Agile methodology

· Experience in source control and automated build/test systems

· Experience in cloud-based Continuous integration/delivery (CICD)

· Able to lead on projects understanding technical and non-technical needs

· Software architecture design

· Cloud / DevOps best practices

· Extensive knowledge of the following Cloud Architecture / DevOps, Containerisation, WebAPI, Interfacing techniques.

 Patterns & Practices -  Design Patterns, Microservices, Event-Driven Design, TDD/BDD · 

Experience/skills regarded as ideal but not essential

· Experience in working effectively with non-technical end-users to deliver effective business solutions.

· Experience in SQL Server / No SQL / Azure / AWS / GraphQl / Kubernetes / DevOps Pipelines

· Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical information, accurately, and convincingly through speech and/or in writing

· Results focus sets high work standards for self and demonstrate the drive to meet targets

· Customer orientation: desire and willingness to address the needs of internal and external customers, seeking continually to improve quality & standards of excellence

· Teamwork: contribute actively to a working environment, in which team members work cooperatively with each other, accepting collective responsibility

· Planning & Organisation: prioritise, organise & schedule activities & resources to ensure achievement of results within tight deadlines 

Excellent training and career development opportunities exist for the right candidate.

Based in Oxford 3 days per week, remote 2 days per week

Basic salary £55-60,000 + excellent benefits