Senior Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Wilmslow; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a 12-month contract role in Wilmslow. You'll play a crucial role in developing micro-services on a cloud platform using C# and AWS, collaborating with a dynamic team and employing best practices in software development. This exciting opportunity enables you to utilize your expertise while contributing to innovative projects that serve clients worldwide.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, especially with C# and .Net.
• Good experience with AWS, Microservices, API development.
• Knowledge of software engineering practices like TDD and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining software within the Cloud platform team.
• Collaborating on software and technical issues.
• Acting as a technical expert and communicating best practices to the team.

Skills

C#

.Net

Amazon Web Services

Microservices

API development

Continuous delivery

Software engineering practices

Agile delivery

Behaviour Driven Development

JavaScript Frameworks

Tools

DataDog

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

Atlassian Jira

Confluence

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Contract

12 months initially

2/3 days a week onsite in Wilmslow

IR35 Status - TBC

Rate - TBC

The team you'll join are currently completing the development of the suite of micro-services (e.g. Tenancy Admin, Notifications) written in C# and built on the AWS architecture that will comprise our first Cloud Platform, due live later in the year. Many other initiatives are being worked on to support the new platform, such as developing monitoring using DataDog, security hardening using GitHub Actions, introducing Playwright for our automation testing.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Cloud platform, you would be part of the Informatics group producing software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis. Your main responsibilities would include:

• Designing, developing and/or maintaining all aspects of software developed within the Cloud platform team
• Collaborating with stakeholders on software and technical issues.
• Acting as technical expert for coding, process and best practices (e.g. adherence to Definition of Done) and effectively communicate this to the team

We are looking for the following skills

• Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, with exposure to elements of our back-end technology stack (C#, .Net)
• Good experience working with Amazon Web Services, Microservices, API development
• Knowledge and application of software engineering practices (e.g. Unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID, BDD etc.) and experience working as part of an agile delivery team.
• Continuous delivery, with pipelines implemented in Kubernetes, Docker
• Front-End JavaScript Frameworks, especially Angular is advantageous
• Experience implementing and maintaining Datadog
• Experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlow
• Atlassian Jira, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
• Ideally some software security best practices and implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
• Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices). Not essential