Senior Software Engineer | UK (100% remote)
100% Remote, but must have lived in the UK for 5 years due to security clearance
£40k - £57k
Details:
Job Overview
You’ll need 5+ years as a professional software engineer, with a proven track record of developing software services. You will take an active and direct role in the product life cycle, from design and prototyping to execution and deployment.
Senior Software Engineers are also called upon to help train and provide technical guidance to junior members of the development team. They are also required to liaise with other departments within the business to provide technical assistance about the company’s products and help resolve client issues.
All staff at this company work from home, but from time to time they like to meet up for company briefings, team-building events, and general fun.
Responsibilities & Duties
Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices, principles, and patterns are implemented.
Identify new and evolving technologies for inclusion in the systems architecture where they can result in a commercial advantage.
Provide coaching, mentoring support, and feedback to team members.
Ensuring all development work follows Test Driven Development (TDD) best practices.
Continually increase personal understanding of the Glider software estate’s languages, frameworks, and technical concepts.
Define, write and maintain coding and best practice standards and documentation guidelines.
Write clean, self-documenting code that is well-structured, well-named, simple, and easy to read.
Perform maintenance, support & enhancements to the existing code base.
Technical Skills
C# (.NET 6).
TDD principles.
SOLID principles.
A SQL dialect at an expert level (we use MySQL)
React.
JavaScript or TypeScript.
HTML.
CSS.
Git and a familiarity within automated CI/CD pipelines.
Essential Skills
Positive attitude, open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations.
Passion for writing clean and maintainable code.
Complex problem-solving ability, innovative and creative thinking.
Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team.
A sense of collective responsibility for delivery commitments.
Ability to deliver code in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical people.
Reside in the UK, and be able to complete Security Clearance - as a large portion of their customers are government clients. You must have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without more than a 28 period outside the country.
Advantageous Skills
Degree In Computer Science.
Knowledge of cloud computing environments AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Knowledge of Kurbenetes & Elasticsearch.
Company Benefits
Complete Remote Working
Two days per month dedicated training time
25 days holiday, plus one extra day of annual leave per year of service (capped at 5 years)
