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About the company
The company is a 'Tech for Good' organisation, supporting over 13 million individuals working for 88,000 businesses across the UK. Clients include ASOS, Nestle, Marriot Hotels, Zurich Insurance and many more well-known names.
The company’s tech manages and improves mental health and employee well-being in the workplace, with services that include remote counselling and therapy, trauma support, health assessments and more. The aim of this companies services and solutions is to reduce workplace sickness and boost employee productivity.
With a track record of incredibly strong year-on-year growth, the demand for this company's services and technology is increasing rapidly. This company is part of a £400M group, with significant investment being pumped into their technology roadmap.
About the Role
This company is looking to build a new Software Engineering Team, with this hire being one of the first into the team, so is a truly unique opportunity to help create the foundations of a new engineering team.
It’ll report to the Head of Development, based from their modern, open-plan office just off Manchester Victoria. The offices have truly impressive views over Manchester, offering excellent local amenities. This company offers season-ticket loans to cover the upfront cost of annual train tickets.
The company’s technology is built mostly on Microsoft, meaning we are looking for a .NET stack Developer with strong C# .NET 6+ & SQL Server skills. The company is also after skills that include TDD (NUnit), Git, RESTful API Development and/or GraphQL API.
Day-to-day tasks:
- Build, maintain and optimise scalable and secure customer-facing applications using C# .NET 6+
- As one of the first Developers in this new team, work with the Head of Development to set coding standards, establish best practices and mentor Junior Developers as the team grows.
- Develop, document and maintain highly robust RESTful APIs to support application integration and communication with other products
- Design and implement relational databases using SQL Server, including writing efficient queries, stored procedures and schema design
- Write clean, efficient and testable code with a focus on TDD principles using NUnit
- Work closely with Front-End Developers, Product Owners, Graphic Designers and QA’s to deliver high-quality features on-time
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing new ideas to the team and fostering a culture of innovation.
What are we looking for?
- 4-5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Expertise in SOLID Principles & TDD
- Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering
- Enjoys a collaborative culture in an office environment
- Confidence as a early-hire into a new Software Engineering team
- Strong communicator, friendly personality and ability to 'get the job done’
- A sense of humour and light-heartedness will help! ??
