Software Developer

**Job Title**: Software Developer (Full Stack)

**Location**: St Ives, Cornwall

**Salary**: £30k - £40K (Depending on experience)

**Job type**: Full time - Permanent

H Tempest Ltd is the nation's largest school photography company with over 500 employees. Our Head Office and Laboratory is based in St Ives, Cornwall and our Photographers are resident throughout the UK. We take photographs of children at playgroups and nurseries, primary and secondary schools and graduates at universities and colleges as well as the Armed Forces and Corporate Photography.

**The Role**

We are looking to expand our Software Development team. We have several new developments focusing on e-commerce, automated ordering etc which include room for R&D projects to help us keep ahead of our competitors in the photography and imaging space. We also have several systems built upon google firebase, a No-SQL technology that we need to migrate away from to a structured SQL database, realigning our technologies with the direction of the business. We are looking to keep things simple.

**H Tempest History in Technology**

The progress of technology at Tempest has moved in cycles. We first moved from a wet photography process to a digital hybrid complete with a main order pipeline. The second wave saw the introduction of order websites across numerous markets enabling online ordering and automated order injection straight into our manufacturing process, along with numerous management tools to support new demands from both B2C and B2B customers.

The third wave saw a redesign of the school orders website along with a move to google cloud and JavaScript technologies. This was followed by an intense period responding to the pandemic to introduce contactless photography and supporting management systems. By this time the lab had already moved to a fully digital print process.

Now we are starting the fourth wave where we are stabilising and simplifying our systems, moving away from certain technologies keeping our technology stack simple for core systems and reengineering / replacing legacy ones. But we are still allowing choice and creativity to explorer newer technologies with R & D projects.
- A degree is not needed but previously working in a bespoke software development environment is an advantage.
- The ideal applicant will be happy to work in a small team as well as independently, owning and supporting a development project which could be worked on by anyone at any time which will exercise and develop your documentation and communication skills.
- Design, maintain and report on relational databases in Microsoft SQL Server.
- An understanding of technologies such as Vue, Quasar, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript Node, VB, ASPX and NO-SQL (Firebase) when dealing with supporting and migrating systems built on these technologies.
- Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud including Firebase would be a bonus.
- You must also be willing to support internal and external customers, venturing out onsite into the lab to talk to our staff and help identify bottle necks and processes that can be optimised. Being able to communicate at both a technical and non-technical level is a must.
**Benefits**
- 26 Days Paid Holiday as well as the usual bank holidays.
- Enrolled into the Company Pension scheme.
- Enrolled into the Company Life Assurance scheme.
- Option for you and your family to join the Company Private Medical Insurance scheme.
- Research and development (Tinker Time) where you can explore technologies of your choice to experiment and learn.
Note: This is a hybrid working role so the applicant must be able to travel to and be in the office on lab working days.

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