Role overview

As a Senior Developer you will be responsible for delivering and integrating software to form complete solutions. This includes designing, coding and modifying our websites, from layout to function, according to business requirements. You will manage the overall architecture of the web application to ensure maximum performance and stability. You will be proficient in both front end and back end coding. Depending on the requirement, the Senior Developer could develop front end website architecture, design user interactions on web pages, develop back end website applications, including creation of databases and configuration of servers to support the application being developed/modified.

You will need to collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed business and technical specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity. This role will see you develop the full scope of a project and make the best suggestions and methods to develop, test, implement and maintain a solution. Your deep understanding of databases and application services (queues, caching etc.) and proficiency in using best practices at every stage of the software development lifecycle will see you manage applications components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.

A typical day in role will see you:

• Write clean code that has medium-high complexity, that is open by default and easy for others to use
• Develop and manage a set of internal and external APIs
• Consistently improve the quality and structure of previously written code to make it more efficient and be able to detect bugs in the code
• Experiment and test solutions for problems, validate assumptions for them, and the ability to associate one idea to another to reach a solution
• Monitor everyday activities of system and provide required support; fix faults following agreed procedures.
• Identify development process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions
• Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services
• Manage work items from allocation to completion within the application lifecycle management tool (Azure DevOps)

About You

Extensive experience as Web or Software Developer including extensive experience of building full solutions and problem solving of varying complexities is a must in this role as is your proficiency in Front-end frameworks, languages and tooling, such as HTML [responsive], CSS [Sass, bootstrap], JavaScript [JQuery, Angular], Single Page Applications (SPA), NPM, and WebPack.

Alongside this you will need to demonstrate you are proficient in back-end, server-side and database technologies such as SQL, C#.Net Framework (ASP.Net, MVC.Net, Razor, Entity Framework, WCF, WebAPI)

With a strong knowledge of web architecture protocols; HTTPS, IP, TCP and a sharp analytical mind you will have experience in developer-led testing / debugging and working with the delivery team to define acceptance criteria supported by your ability to work independently and with others, your positive can-do with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

It would also be advantageous to have:

• Strong knowledge of API management, consumption of web services and database management (Microsoft SQL Server)
• Experience with Umbraco CMS
• Extensive experience with versioning, concurrent development source control (Git) and continuous integration (Jenkins)
• Ability to create and manage multiple codebases for both existing and new applications and functionality