Software Engineer

Eurofins Humangenetik & Pränatal-Medizin; Tamworth; Remote; EUR 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented software engineer to join its dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work on transformative projects across the Forensics divisions in the UK and Europe. As a full stack developer, you'll be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, collaborating with a team of developers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions. With a focus on building scalable APIs and engaging front-end applications, this position promises to be both challenging and rewarding. If you're passionate about technology and eager to contribute to impactful work, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Life Assurance (3 times annual salary)

Scottish Widows Company Pension Plan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employee length of service awards

Discount vouchers and flexi reward points

Access to Perkbox

Learning and study support

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced company sick pay

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in full software development life cycle in an agile team.
• Hands-on experience with sustainable and scalable APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain front-end SPA applications using Blazor.
• Implement .NET Core APIs and manage CI/CD with Azure DevOps.

Skills

Full Stack Development

API Development

Agile Methodologies

C#

Test Driven Development

Continuous Integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

GIT

SQL Server Management Studio

Azure Data Studio

Job description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Location: Remote with ability to attend meetups in Birmingham and Tamworth

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week, full time

Closing date: 17th January 2025

The Role

We are looking for a software engineer with hands-on full stack experience in application development to help deliver an exciting roadmap of transformational work across the Forensics divisions in the UK and Europe. As a developer on the team, you will work with other developers, testers and the product owner to design and implement technical solutions enabling the team to deliver features and stories for our product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• You trust your software – you know how it works, how to break it (and fix it)
• Iteration planning and estimation
• Increasing your development experience and knowledge
• Taking responsibility for pull requests and contributing to tech decisions together with the team and other stakeholders
• Contributing to and maintaining team documentation wikis.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Experience and Technical Skills

As a full stack software engineer, you’ll have experience of the full software development life cycle in an agile team including story estimation, planning and grooming a product backlog. Technically you should have practical experience building sustainable, scalable, and well-documented APIs and front-end SPA framework experience. You should also have a good working knowledge of the tools to do the job such as Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, GIT Source control and SQL Server Management Studio / Azure Data Studio.

What you will be doing

• Front end SPA development with Blazor
• .NET Core API development with C#
• Entity Framework
• Continuous Integration and Deployment using Azure DevOps
• Experience with Hangfire, RabbitMQ, MongoDB
• Use of Test Driven Development and writing Unit Tests.

Additional Information

Due to the highly sensitive nature of the work, applicants should note that security clearance is required for this role. To gain security clearance you must have five years continuous residency in the UK. Security clearance is undertaken by a third party to police personnel vetting standards (NPPV/3 and SC), as such any criminal convictions may prevent you from gaining security clearance. Further information on the security clearance process and requirement can be found at https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/police-forces/warwickshire-police/areas/warwickshire-police/about-us/about-us/police-national-vetting-service/ . In addition, all successful applicants will be required to undertake drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment.

In return for your hard work and loyal service, we will offer you genuine career and salary progression through our Career Pathways programme, a competitive salary, and a selection of employee benefits via our flexible benefits menu which includes cycle to work, give as you earn, volunteering days, buy and sell holiday. In addition, we also offer the following:

• Life Assurance (3 times annual salary)
• Scottish Widows Company Pension Plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to a maximum of 30 days)
• Employee length of service awards and yearly recognition schemes, celebrating work anniversaries here at EFS.
• Discount vouchers and flexi reward points on our employee wellness hub
• Everyone who joins EFS will have access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round on a wide range of perks such as supermarket savings, days out or your daily coffee
• Learning and study support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced company sick, maternity and paternity pay scheme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Subscription to mental health support and wellbeing

Due to the nature of the work we undertake on our EFS Midlands site, for employees based at EFS Midlands or likely to attend EFS Midlands as part of their role you must inform us if you come into contact with any firearms or ammunition through work or any other reason as there will be precautions you will need to take in order to enter the premises. This also applies to persons involved in clay pigeon shooting, and those who regularly use any cartridge-based tools such as nail/stud guns. Please provide details on your application.

To apply, please visit https://www.eurofins.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies/