Senior .NET Developer

**Company & Role**
This is an opportunity for you to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, helping scientists across the globe to detect & diagnose diseases, including COVID-19. The company is going through a period of extraordinary growth, with the ability to influenceprocess, practices & direction with existing & greenfield developments. The software team is a small, empowered, agile team responsible for all aspects of software, including firmware, desktop & eventually web technologies. This is your chance to make a genuineimpact through digital solutions.
The role will guide the architecture & development of their digital solutions, predominantly using Microsoft stack /.NET Core platforms & Microsoft Azure, with scope to supplement this with a wide range of other technologies.
This role can be fully remote, although ideally will be a hybrid working pattern, commutable from their R&D facilities at Stokesley Business Park. (This is located adjacent to the market town of Stokesley in North Yorkshire, approximately two miles to the southof the Middlesbrough boundary & ten miles from Middlesbrough town centre. Nearby towns are Guisborough (approximately 9 miles by road) & Northallerton (approximately 16 miles by road).. There may be very occasional travel to other sites in Southampton &/orCamberley too.
**Company Benefits**
- 25 Days Holiday
- Company Bonus Scheme or Commission Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Buy/Sell Holiday (up to 5 days leave may be bought or sold)
- Refer a friend (£500 paid to employee for referring a new member of staff)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension Scheme: either the Group Pension Plan or the government NEST scheme
- Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
- Bonus between 10%-15%

**Tasks & Responsibilities**:

- Write, develop, test and maintain code on various technology platforms
- Architect new digital solutions with a systems thinking approach, understanding the dependencies between different technology platforms and products
- Guide development best practices with other senior developers and the software development manager
- Contribute to the improvement of the delivery lifecycle, through Agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices and frequent retrospectives
- Investigate and implement new technologies to allow the code to be more maintainable as the business scales

**Technology Stack**
C# /.NET 5+, React, Azure
**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- Demonstrable experience in C# /.NET Core
- Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-first approaches, preferably in Microsoft Azure
- Experience building web-based APIs, preferably using a microservice based approach
- An agile mindset, an ability to be flexible and adaptable in a growing organisation and the understanding of the software tools and practices to achieve this
- A growth mindset, the desire to grow personally and professionally and not be defined by one technology or way of doing things
- Knowledge of good software engineering practices, such as unit testing, SOLID principles, DevOps principles etc.
- Familiarity with good software lifecycle management concepts:

- Git workflow and change control
- Automated testing
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Issue tracking
- Versioning and release management
- Working with others respectfully as part of a team, seeking out relationships outside of your immediate team, communicating in a safe environment with courage to others in the business if something can be improved

**Desirable**:

- A genuine desire to want to make a difference to people’s lives through providing customers and patients access to diagnostic services in the fight against infectious diseases
- Experience in instrumentation software and R&D, preferably in the field of Life Sciences
- Varied experience across desktop software, cloud services, firmware development, IoT, analysis algorithms and data science using a variety of languages
- Experience of development conforming to specific standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 27001

**Interested?