Software Engineer

Carfinance247 Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK online car finance broker is looking for a Software Engineer to enhance their in-house CRM platform. The role involves developing features, maintaining legacy APIs, and ensuring optimal performance. The ideal candidate should have experience with C# and .NET Core, a strong understanding of web applications, and proficiency in CI/CD practices. Benefits include on-site parking, gym access, and career progression opportunities. Join a dynamic team in a fast-growing company to contribute to innovative finance solutions.

Benefits

Subsidised Onsite Parking

Free gym access

Healthcare Cash plan

Discount club

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Qualifications

• Experience of C# and .NET Core.
• Understanding of web applications, HTTP communication and REST.
• Ability to demonstrate innovative problem-solving skills.
• Experience of writing different testing suites.
• Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL / T-SQL.
• Experience of CI/CD tools.
• Awareness of SOLID coding principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features for the CRM platform.
• Resolve operational issues and fix bugs.
• Conduct code reviews and share knowledge.
• Maintain the CI/CD pipeline and handle code changes.

Skills

C# and .NET Core

Web applications

SQL / T-SQL

Microservice architectures

CI/CD practices

Problem-solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview

As a Software Engineer at Car Finance 247, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing our in-house CRM platform. This system, built on Twilio Flex and developed primarily using .NET Core/C#, supports our Customer Account Managers in handling finance applications efficiently. You will work on integrating cloud-based services and maintaining legacy APIs to ensure seamless operation and performance. As part of the role, you will collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to develop and maintain the tools to enable agents to be integrations with their systems. Feature switching, A/B testing and continuous integration & delivery are at the core of our development process, so our Software Engineers will also embrace the idea of releasing little and often and iterating on success. We have a strong devops culture, embracing infrastructure as code and encouraging frequent releases into our container-based cluster management system and Cloud based resources. Knowledge of SQL / T-SQL is beneficial alongside working experience of NoSQL and modern event driven and microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Participating in group planning sessions and helping to elaborate requirements.
• Contributing to the design and architecture of innovative solutions.
• Ensure that the ability to scale the solution is considered within the design of front and back-end systems.

Writing code

• Developing new features.
• Resolving operational issues.
• Fixing bugs.
• Building greenfield products.

Code reviews

• Conducting and receiving code reviews.
• Sharing skills and techniques with other members of the team.

Managing releases

• Handling code changes from inception through to deployment.
• Maintaining the CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensuring code changes are adequately tested and working in production.

Essential

• Experience of C# and .NET Core.
• Understanding of web applications, HTTP communication and REST.
• Ability to demonstrate innovative, imaginative problem-solving skills with focus on delivering quality outcomes in a timely manner.
• Experience of writing and maintaining different testing suites – Unit tests (xUnit, nUnit etc) + Integration Tests + Functional Tests.
• Working knowledge of RDBMS and SQL / T-SQL.
• Knowledge of Message brokers and event driven architectures.
• Experience of Version control & CI/CD (Bamboo, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Experience of Microservice architectures.
• Awareness of SOLID coding principles.

Desirable

• NoSQL database technologies (MongoDB, Cosmos).
• Docker workflows.
• Container management systems (Kubernetes / Docker Swarm).
• Knowledge of Cloud solutions (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform).
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Bash and PowerShell).
• Administration of Windows and Linux servers.

Benefits

• Subsidised Onsite Parking.
• Free fruit, barista bar and juice bar.
• Onsite gym.
• Free transport to and from Piccadilly.
• Birthday off!
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave pay.
• Time off from day-one for fertility appointments.
• Discount club.
• Healthcare Cash plan.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme.
• Excellent career progression across the business.

About Us

At Car Finance 247 our determination and strong team culture have helped us become the number one online car finance broker in the UK. We are one of the UK's fastest growing privately owned businesses, having ranked in the Sunday Time Fast Track 100 for each of the last 4 years. We create personalised and high-quality customer experiences driven by outstanding tech, streamlined process and most importantly, amazing people. Over the next 12 months we have exciting upcoming projects to cement our position as market leaders in every aspect of our business and that journey starts with attracting the best talent.

As an equal opportunity's employer, the 247 Group is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employee's and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the 247 Group.