Progress OpenEdge Developer

LEAP Legal Software; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal software company is seeking a skilled Progress OpenEdge 4GL Developer in Bath. You will enhance legal financial and case management systems with a focus on application development and support. Join a collaborative team focused on delivering user-friendly solutions for over 250 legal firms. This role offers an 8% pension contribution, private health insurance, and a hybrid working pattern.

Benefits

8% pension contribution

Private health insurance

Life insurance cover

Employee Assistance Program

PerkBox membership

25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Free light lunch and snacks

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of application development experience in Progress OpenEdge.
• Experience with various versions and components of Progress OpenEdge.
• Knowledge of multi-user application functionalities and performance design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance existing products and services.
• Ensure deliverables are completed to specification and deadlines.
• Handle technical support issues for high-volume system users.

Skills

Progress OpenEdge application development

DBA functions

Progress 4GL user-interfaces

Git-based code management

GDPR compliance

Tools

OpenEdge Developer Studio

Atlassian applications

Job description

About SOS

As part of the LEAP group our dedication to excellence and customer-focused approach has made us a trusted partner for legal professionals nationwide. Working alongside our team of passionate and driven individuals provides you with the opportunity to grow develop and make a meaningful impact in the legal sector.

At SOS our passion for advancing legal technology has made us a leading provider of legal software solutions. With decades of experience we deliver innovative reliable and user-friendly software that enhances efficiency and ensures compliance - ultimately helping law firms streamline their operations. Our Practice Management software is widely recognised across the profession and our customisable solutions empower firms to work in the way that best suits their needs.

The role

We are looking for a skilled Progress OpenEdge 4GL Developer to help maintain and enhance our legal financial and case management systems. Built over 25 years and now running on OpenEdge 12.8 our products serve over 250 legal firms across the UK. This role involves both new development and ongoing support and suits someone with at least 3 years of relevant experience. You will join a collaborative team of crossplatform developers and QA specialists.

Working Pattern & Location

09 : 00 17 : 30 Monday to Friday Bath office.

Hybrid working pattern 3 days office and 2 days homeworking.

Reports to

Head of Development.

What you’ll do

• Maintaining and enhancing our existing products and services in userinterfaces embedded business logic and API (Appserver / PAS) service code.
• Working with the team to ensure that deliverables are completed to specification and to agreed deadlines.
• Handling technical support issues arising from the high-volume daily use of our systems by our UK-wide user base of over 20000 users.
• Assisting with the creation and maintenance of internal test system infrastructures.
• Advising on best practices of a range of Progress OpenEdge infrastructure components.
• Becoming fully conversant with our existing product features and working on enhancements to these features and extending their capabilities into new areas.

What you’ll bring

Essential skills

• Demonstrable experience of application development in a variety of Progress OpenEdge development environments (App Builder Procedure Editor OpenEdge Developer Studio) across a range of OpenEdge versions (critically OE11 and OE12).
• Experience of working with various Progress OpenEdge components and wider infrastructure (DBA functions Appserver / PAS configurations TDE database auditing after imaging replication ODBC-based reporting).
• Experience with building complex Progress 4GL user-interfaces including use of embedded Active X controls.
• Commercial experience of multi-user Progress OpenEdge applications including an understanding of transaction scopes record lock management and designing / coding for high performance.
• Experience with Git-based code management systems (GitHub GitLab Bitbucket).
• Working fully to GDPR regulations and internal security protocols to ensure that our systems and our clients data are always kept secure.

Desirable skills

• Knowledge of Atlassian applications for development productivity : Jira (issue management) Bitbucket (source code management) and Confluence (documentation).
• Conversant with Microsoft and other productivity and communication apps (Word Excel Outlook Teams Zoom Slack).
• Previous experience with financial systems.

Benefits

What you’ll get

• SOS pays 8% of your qualifying salary into your pension.
• Private health insurance including optical and dental.
• Life insurance cover.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• PerkBox membership.
• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays).
• Free light lunch and snacks.

Closing Date : Friday 31st October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible

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