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Senior Software Engineer

Connells Group HQ
Posted 21 days ago, valid for 3 days
Location

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 8NL, England

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Connells Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their IT Engineering Team in Milton Keynes.
  • The role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in software development, particularly with .NET technologies and SQL Server.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of £60,000 to £75,000 per year, depending on experience.
  • Key responsibilities include leading software deliverables in an agile environment, fostering a culture of observability, and ensuring application performance and quality.
  • Candidates should have strong C# skills, experience with web applications using ASP.NET MVC, and excellent communication abilities.
Job DescriptionWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our IT Engineering Team in Milton Keynes. You will help development, support and enhance the business systems and applications using .NET technologies and SQL Server and to help both drive and support change within the department on both a professional and technical level.Key responsibilities:
  • Keep up to date regarding best practices in software development and deployment
  • Implement best practice coding in relation to Development coding standards
  • Provides direction and technical context for more junior developers
  • Fosters a culture of observability across the engineering team. Helps teams across engineering use operational data to improve stability and performance of their applications.
  • Awareness of application security considerations
  • Leads incident response across the engineering teams as needed
  • Identifies dependencies across the organization and works with individual teams to resolve them before they become an issue, and installs preventative measures to mitigate repeat occurrences.
  • Effectively handles risk, change, and uncertainty across the organization.
  • Work alongside other Software Engineers on projects or work alone where necessary
  • Create secure and high performing n-tier applications utilising best practices in the development of database applications using SQL
  • Contribute to improve the overall development processes and methodologies followed by the Development team
  • Design and develop commercial/enterprise web applications
  • Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
  • Works with all teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks.
Experience & skills required:
  • Experience leading software deliverables in an agile environment.
  • Experience developing and maintaining multiple connected software solutions
  • Strong C# skills
  • Web applications experience using C# and ASP.NET MVC
  • Excellent skills in SQL Server
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to select and use the most appropriate tools, technologies, and languages for the job
  • Team-oriented, with a willingness to work as part of a collaborative environment
  • Skilled in software testing methodologies
  • Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
  • Strong knowledge of object-oriented design and development skills
Highly Desirable
  • Experience with concurrent programming techniques, parallelism, and threading
  • Experience working with distributed systems and microservice architectures
  • Experience with high-scalability projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
  • Experience with modern web application development architectures and frameworks such as blazor and react
  • Microsoft certified status
Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,250 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.CF00516 

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