Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Reporting to Software Development Manager
Background
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering team and build out the next generation of our platform. The ideal candidate is a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable data platforms. They must be at ease working in an agile environment. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement.
About Signal
We are trusted by leading financial services and charity brands to deliver exceptional communication experiences to their customers and supporters.
Our unique combination of insight, design and technology allows our clients to overcome their communication challenges and accelerate the shift from legacy customer communications management to connected customer experience management.
Consultants, CX planners, analysts, architects, comms strategists, creatives, developers, and expert PMs – our people are the change-makers and the real 'power' behind our unique blend.
We want Signal to be the place where our people do the best work of their careers. So, we work hard to create a positive, inspiring culture, driven by our values, where individuals flourish.
And our smart working model gives staff the flexibility to choose whether they work from home or take advantage of our comfortable office spaces to connect, collaborate or simply work. We stay connected through regular all-company touchpoints, including our quarterly ‘More Together’ wellbeing days.
About the role
To design, build out and maintain effective and reliable code that supports the next generation growth of our platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable and reliable code
- Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, third parties, and cross-functional teams to build effective relationships and to ensure timely and efficient project delivery
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices
- Write and maintain automated tests
Key Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Experience with automated testing frameworks
- Able to work well in a highly collaborative team
- Capable of producing organised, well-written documentation
- Desire to produce high quality, well-structure, testable, simple and maintainable solutions
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Technologically adept and able to demonstrate proficiency in the following technologies:
- C# .Net Core development (2+ years of experience)
- .NET Web API
- RESTful APIs
- SQL & Database knowledge
- Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and SOLID principles
- Git repositories
- And ideally familiar with:
- CI/CD (preferably Bitbucket Pipelines)
- Jira
- Agile
- Cloud (AWS/Azure)
- Microservices
- Docker
- Front-end: NET Blazor, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- PHP
- MVC
- Test-driven development (TDD)
- Clean Architecture
Our Benefits and Perks
Signal offers a competitive range of employee benefits and perks which include company contributory pension, 25 days holiday plus an extra day off for your birthday, company health insurance scheme and other critical illness covers, charitable giving opportunities and volunteering days, breakfast bar and fruit in the office, long service awards, and an inclusive well-being offering.
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