WPF Desktop Developer

You will have a proven interest and ability in developing software systems where your responsibilities will include developing software, refactoring code, designing systems and working on solutions.

Day to day activities will involve:

· Building and maintaining features in our WPF desktop application, following the MVVM pattern

· Extending our interactive mapping and data visualisation features using a third-party mapping SDK

· Writing algorithms and working alongside our existing developers to design and implement new analysis features

· Authoring unit tests

· Collaborating in a self organising Scrum team including participating in the daily standup, planning and retrospective meetings

· C#.NET, WPF and the MVVM pattern

· .NET Framework desktop development

· Entity Framework, SQL Server

· Dependency injection (Autofac or similar)

· Unit testing (NUnit, Moq)

· GIT

· Strong OO understanding

· SOLID design patterns

· Good communication skills

· Ability to work collaboratively within an agile team

· A strong commitment to staying up to date on the latest technologies

Desirable Experience

· Interest in the transport and mapping sector

· Experience working with GIS frameworks and/or libraries (ThinkGeo, Esri, MapInfo, GDAL)

· UK public transport data formats (GTFS, TransXChange, CIF, NaPTAN)

· GIS and mapping concepts such as WMS, contour generation and spatial analysis

· Dapper, AutoMapper, FluentAssertions

· Maintaining a long-lived legacy desktop codebase alongside modern testing practices

· Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD

We are looking for someone with 3+ years’ experience; however, would consider someone with less experience based on their portfolio.

Pulled from the full job description

• Flexitime
• Employee mentoring programme
• Financial planning services
• Shuttle service provided
• Sick pay
• Free parking
• Company pension, You will get the opportunity to work for an outstanding company who continue to deliver solutions at the highest grade. You can expect a generous salary package, including a company pension scheme and 25 days holiday increasing to 28 days after 3 years. Other benefits include free parking, electric charging points, health cash-back plan, cycle to work scheme and regular social events. We offer flexible working hours and 2 days per week working remotely.

The role is full-time and based at our offices at the Surrey Research Park, Guildford.

Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee mentoring programme
• Financial planning services
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Shuttle service provided
• Sick pay
• Transport links
• Work from home

This is an exciting opportunity for a software developer to join a leading-edge software team of dynamic developers. Basemap are a company at the forefront of our market, producing digital mapping and transport solutions.