Principal Developer

Trust in SODA; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26-day annual leave

Birthday day off

Pension scheme with salary exchange

Private healthcare

Group Life Insurance

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

Trust in SODA in Glasgow is seeking a Principal Developer for a contract position, hybrid working. The role requires leading a small development team, delivering core financial management solutions, and overseeing design reviews and defect management. Start date ASAP with a salary of £67k plus bonus scheme.

The candidate should have strong SQL skills, experience in fintech or finance, and proven line management capabilities to drive best practices and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Must have recruitment experience.
• Must have SME experience.
• Must have software experience.
• Must have people management experience.
• Must have financial experience.

Responsibilities

• Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals.
• Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake.
• Drive and develop best practices.
• Line management
• Implementing & Testing the clients’ core financial management solution.
• Review and sign off solution designs.
• Direct project build team and oversee build effort.
• Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase.
• Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues.
• Lead peer reviews.

Skills

Recruitment experience

SME experience

Software experience

People management

Financial experience

Tools

MS SQL

SSRS / Power BI

Low-code configuration tools

Data querying and manipulation

SQL performance tuning

Job description

Principal Developer – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP

Location: Glasgow – Hybrid Working

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £67k per year + Bonus Scheme

WhatWe’reLooking For:

• Rec’s experience (Must have)
• SME experience (Must have)
• Software experience (Must have)
• People Management (Must have)
• Financial experience (Must have)

• FinTech, SaaS, or Finance background
• Industry based reconciliation development or other reconciliation software tool experience
• Proven experience delivering configuration/code on time and within budget.
• Experience acting as a technical lead on projects.
• Line management of small teams.
• Strong understanding of the phases of the software development and implementation lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of the Change Control Process to identify any movement of agreed scope.
• Strong understanding of developing personal development plans, goals, and objective setting.
• Strong MS SQL, data querying & data manipulation.
• Strong time management and recording skills.
• Ownership of & adherence to individual and team planned efforts.

Job Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support a team of Senior, L2, and L1 Developers in their development and goals.
• Provide individual team members with support and guidance in their roles and the tasks that they undertake.
• Drive and develop best practices.
• Line management
• Implementing & Testing the clients’ core financial management solution.
• Review and sign off solution designs.
• Direct project build team and oversee build effort.
• Ownership of defect triage and defect management through the acceptance testing phase.
• Act as first line of escalation outside of project for technical issues.
• Lead peer reviews.

Tech Stack You'll Work With:

• MS SQL
• SSRS / Power BI
• Low-code configuration tools
• Data querying and manipulation
• SQL performance tuning

Job Benefits

• 26-day annual leave package – plus public holidays for your base location area
• An extra day off for your birthday! (even if it falls on a weekend)
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• The option to buy extra annual leave days
• Annual Company & Personal Performance Bonus Awards
• Employee Nominated On-The Spot Bonus Program. Ranging from £100 - £5000!
• Employee-Referral Scheme
• Private healthcare & hospital cash plan that covers our employees’ partners and dependents.
• Group Life Insurance
• Length of service awards from 3 years in service
• Regular team-building events and monthly all-staff updates from our CEO
• Access to Pluralsight & Udemy
• Gym membership discount
• Byond cashback card – Cashback on purchases from your local high street retailers
• Salary sacrifice cycle scheme – Our cycle to work benefit-pay nothing upfront and save on the cost of a brand-new bike and accessorise. All while saving the planet by reducing your carbon footprint.