Software Engineer

Eurofins USA; Tamworth; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in forensic services seeks a software engineer to enhance its development team. As a full stack developer, you will engage in creating robust applications using .NET and Azure DevOps in a collaborative environment, ensuring quality and technical excellence in all projects. This remote role allows for flexible attendance at meetups in Birmingham and Tamworth, facilitating continuous learning and professional growth.

Benefits

Life Assurance (3 times annual salary)

Scottish Widows Company Pension Plan

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discount vouchers and flexi reward points

Access to Perkbox

Learning and study support

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced sick, maternity and paternity pay

Refer a friend scheme

Free on-site car parking

Qualifications

• Experience in full software development life cycle in an agile team.
• Practical experience building sustainable, scalable, and well-documented APIs.
• Front-end SPA framework experience.

Responsibilities

• Front end SPA development with Blazor.
• .NET Core API development with C#.
• Maintaining team documentation wikis.

Skills

C#

API Development

DevOps

Test Driven Development

Tools

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

GIT

SQL Server Management Studio

Azure Data Studio

Job description

Eurofins Scientific is a leading international group of laboratories with over EUR 6.95 billion annual sales and over 63,000 employees with a network of 950 laboratories in 60 countries. Eurofins has a network of 16 sites in the UK and the Group provides an unparalleled range of over 200,000 reliable and validated analytical methods and support services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental and consumer product industries, and to governments.

Eurofins Forensic Services (EFS) laboratories are amongst the most advanced analytical facilities in Europe, enabling the company to offer a complete and comprehensive range of independent and innovative forensic testing solutions to police forces, legal and criminal justice organisations throughout the UK and Europe.

Job Description

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.This role is remote, with the flexibility to attend meetups in Birmingham and Tamworth as needed.

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

What you will be doing

• Front end SPA development with Blazor
• .NET Core API development with C#
• Entity Framework

Qualifications

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.

• 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 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
• Free on-site car parking

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.