Software Developer

• We develop and peer review product enhancements.
• We diagnose, investigate, and resolve bugs.
• We participate fully in Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• We work closely with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• We guide and mentor less experienced members of the team where necessary.
• We drive improvements to working practices by keeping up to date with the latest trends and technologies.
• We collaborate with product owners to prepare work for sprints.
• We cooperate with customer-facing colleagues to give our users the best possible experience.
• We collaborate with our operations team to ensure our applications are stable and running well.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Git
• JSON
• JUnit
• JavaScript
• LESS
• MVC
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SVN
• XML
• Support, We are a friendly, experienced development team that works closely together through pair-programming, team planning, joint architecture, and peer review. We operate in an agile way using Scrum to deliver value to our customers regularly. Collaboration is one of our core values, and we work best together while also supporting independent work when appropriate. This is a permanent, full-time position based at our offices at Staffordshire Technology Park, Stafford, with working hours of 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. We encourage colleagues to work from the office at least two days per week to maintain strong relationships, communication, and team cohesion. Our benefits include 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays (31 days in total), increasing with service, with the option to buy and sell leave, life assurance at 4x annual salary, a 6% employer pension contribution, and hybrid working arrangements. We also use AI tools internally and externally as part of our work and encourage applicants to use them ethically and responsibly.

• We are looking for someone with at least two years of commercial experience in a software development role.
• We are looking for experience with Spring frameworks and Spring Boot.
• We are looking for experience with JavaScript.
• We are looking for experience in database management, ideally MSSQL.
• We are looking for experience with version control tools such as SVN and Git.
• We are looking for experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• We are looking for experience with data formats including JSON and XML.
• We are looking for experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
• We are looking for experience with MVC and object-oriented architecture.
• We are looking for a strong understanding of software engineering principles, modern programming languages, and frameworks.