Senior Software Developer

**Senior Software Developer | £55,000 - £65,000 Basic | 15% Bonus | 99% Remote (Office in Cheadle)**

.Net Core | C# | Azure | TDD | Web API | REST API | DevOps | Agile | Unit Test | SOLID

**The Company**

My client are currently going through a full digital transformation, developing technology to transform animal care. Their transformation programme is shaping, building and delivering next generation holistic animal care services.

The goal is a fully personalised customer experience that integrates animal care across store, multi-channel and vets to deliver seamless service and create new ways to support animals and their owners to live happier lives together. The ambition, scaleand variety of the work sets them apart, and they are backed by unprecedented investment.

The Senior Software Developer will be joining a talented team and from day one get to work on all greenfield work.

**What You Will Be Doing**
- Mainly Back End Development -.Net Core / Azure - Design and develop solutions
- Some of the tech you might touch is the likes of BigQuery, Spanner, Snowflake, Redshift, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, React
- Other technology used will be Cosmos DB, GIT, Unit Tests (XUnit/Fluent Assertions), Application Insights, Sonar Cloud, Azure DevOps, Typescript, CSS/SCSS/SASS, HTML
- Service Design and Development - Design and develop Service solutions
- Designs and develops services and API solutions to business problems
- Produces and maintains appropriate levels of documentation for the software being built
- Develops and maintains appropriate unit and integration testing suites using techniques such as TDD during the development lifecyle
- Works with product ownership team to help define and prioritise features for the product backlog
- Software Development Lifecycle - plays a role in the agile software development lifecycle
- Actively participates in all aspects of the agile software development lifecycle
- Agile Backlog Refinement and estimation (e.g. Planning Poker, Three Amigos)
- Sprint Planning
- Software Development and Daily Standups
- Sprint Showcases / Demos
- Retrospectives

**The Skills Needed**
- Experience of developing using C#
- A good understanding of Service oriented design and software Development and the ecosystem and technologies in use
- Knowledge of Software / Process / Project lifecycles with an understanding of Agile working practices
- Some knowledge of frameworks, patterns and practices used to develop software and experience of using C# as a development language of choice
- Customer-oriented approach and outcome focused
- Experience of engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desired
- Experience of cloud native software implementations

**What You Will Get**
- £55,000 - £65,000 Basic
- 15% annual bonus
- 99% remote - Incredibly rare visits to the Handforth office - Never more than 1 per month
- 28 days holiday + Bank holidays + Birthday off (37 days holiday)
- Buy' up to five days additional holiday each year - total possible 42
- Opportunity to work on greenfield projects - all greenfield work
- Pension - 6.5%
- Life Assurance cover
- A free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provided by the Retail Trust
- Loyalty/Long Service Awards to celebrate service anniversaries between 5-30 years
- Discounted private medical insurance for you and your partner
- Payroll is a flexible, tax efficient way to make regular donations to any UK charity
- Employee Recognition Scheme to reward colleague contribution
- Permanent Health Insurance cover for all employees unable to work for a long period due to illness
- Retail discounts
- Charity Days enable colleagues to make a difference to their local communities
- Additional days paid leave i.e. for Birthday Leave and animal Leave (if you have a new dog, horse or cat in the family)
- Discounted private medical insurance for you and your partner
- Peer to peer employee recognition scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- In-depth Learning and development programmes

If this role sounds of interest please get in contact with Nick Gandhi at Amber Resourcing ASAP to be considered.