.Net Engineer

Location: London, Watford or Bristol (Hybrid working options available)

We now need Engineers to support the transformation and the future growth of the business, simplifying our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and delivering new solutions providing market-leading services for our colleagues, customers and advisers.

What you'll do

The Engineer is responsible for the design and development of strategic software solutions, ensuring that requirements are met, best practices are followed and that all software developed is of a high quality and robust nature.

Working with Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts and Testers the successful .Net Engineer will share responsibility for project feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery. They will need to work positively and effectively within teams of mixed abilities and experience and be adaptable within changing environments.

You will be tasked with the following duties:

• Develop software that meets requirements following best practices.
• Build reusable, well-documented, extensible code including unit tests.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, auditing, security and on-going support) are considered during development.
• Identify risks.
• Participate in technical design and review
• Build components to integrate with existing applications
• Develop black box services/libraries (reusable pieces)
• Design and build Prototypes/Proofs of Concept
• Facilitate automated testing, integration and deployment (CI and CD)
• Support acceptance testing
• Participate in problem analysis and help resolve technical problems
• Provide regular information on progress to project management and team leaders to allow regulation and reviewing of tasks.
• Participate in mentoring, code reviews and pair programming
• Complete or contribute to company standard documentation.
• Take part in continuous learning and professional development

Required Knowledge / Experience / Skills

• Proficiency in a variety of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tooling. Our current tech stack is primarily Microsoft / Azure focused; solid C# is necessary.
• API Development and integration with 3rd party applications
• Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEAN code – applying to all areas of development. Keen to write code that is self-explanatory and easy to maintain.
• An awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery.
• We use GitHub and Octopus Deploy for our pipelines but an understanding of the principles behind CICD is more important that the tooling you have used. You will have worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production.
• .NET 6+
• SQL
• Test Automation
• Good analysis, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks

Desirable Skills:

• Azure PaaS
• M-Files
• Experience with distributed systems (SOA, Microservices)