Software Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a talented, creative and quality-driven software engineer who will be involved in all aspects of software development including writing code, unit testing, producing documentation, code review of peers and release. The successful candidate will be working within a Scrum team of generally 6-10 in a wider group of several teams.

The successful candidate will have the ability to solve technical challenges, apply strong attention to detail and work collaboratively with colleagues including other developers, the QA team, product owners and the wider company.

UL360, based in Cambridge, develops, sells and supports a large-scale SaaS enterprise platform on a diverse suite of products centered around ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and Sustainability. Our platform consists of a mixture of older code in a monolith architecture written in C# on a .NET Framework and newer micro services. The direction of travel is towards greater agility; continuous delivery and greater automation in both deployment and testing.

The team are largely remote but we have an office in Cambridge. Software Engineering staff can choose to come in every day or be almost fully remote, with a few team meetings a year for business-wide technical design & delivery sessions (plus socials!). **

Responsibilities**

• Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure, and sustainable place has been our business model for over 125 years and is deeply ingrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work, and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & achieve: We learn, work, and grow together with targeted development, reward, and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.

Qualifications

• 2 plus years of experience of common tools and technologies such as (but not limited to) Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, .NET Framework and .NET Core on Windows platforms, HTML 5, CSS 2.1+ and JavaScript (REACT/redux, Typescript and/or Node.js)
• Knowledge of various database technologies (Oracle/SQL Server, MongoDB/CosmosDB etc)
• Experience of using management system such as Jira, Azure DevOps
• Experience of writing unit tests
• Ability to work effectively as part of an agile team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Experience with continuous integration, deployment and delivery pipelines
• Microsoft Azure experience
• Microservices experience
• API experience
• Messaging experience