SQL Developer

SQL DEVELOPER | LEEDS | £40,000 - £50,000

We're hiring for a fast-moving software business based in Leeds looking for an SQL Developer to take ownership of the database layer of our core platform. This is a brand new role created to support growing demand across the business, you'll be building new systems, optimising existing ones, and helping us ship features quickly and pragmatically.

This is a hybrid role, 3 days on-site per week - LEEDS

THE ROLE

You'll work closely with a small development team, taking database briefs and running with them independently. Day to day you can expect to be:

• Designing and building new database systems and features, often from a rough brief with minimal formal spec
• Maintaining and extending SQL-based business logic at the heart of our operational processes
• Debugging and fault-finding customer data issues across complex, interconnected database systems
• Reviewing and optimising stored procedures and scheduled jobs for performance and reliability
• Managing automated processes via SQL Server Agent
• Occasional customer-facing query resolution

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Solid Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL experience (minimum 2 years)
• Experience building substantial business logic inside the database, not just using it as a storage layer
• Strong with stored procedures, triggers, views and complex query design
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, comfortable building something that works before making it perfect
• Able to take a rough brief and translate it independently into a working solution

DESIRABLE

• SQL Server Agent
• C# development
• WPF desktop application development
• Blazor/.NET web development
• Customer-facing or support experience