Job title: Mid-Level Software Developer
Department: IT
Location: Homebased
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £35000 - £45000
We’re looking for a Mid-Level Software Developer to be part of our success story.
**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.
About the role
The Mid-Level Software developer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web applications and services using C# .NET and Blazor frameworks. The developer will collaborate closely with product managers, UX/UI Designers, and the rest of the development team to build scalable, secure, and user-friendly web applications. This role includes both front end and back-end functionality, integrating with APIs and optimising performance across the application
Key objectives include:
- Delivering efficient and maintainable code
- Designing and developing web-based applications using Blazor and .NET
- Ensuring seamless integration with databases, APIs, and other services
- Collaborating with the team to ensure high-quality, consistent, scalable solutions
Key responsibilities
- Application Development: Design, develop, and maintain web applications using C#, .NET Core/Framework, and Blazor.
- Front-end Development: Build dynamic user interfaces with Blazor, ensuring responsiveness, accessibility, and a seamless user experience.
- Back-end Development: Develop server-side logic, services, and APIs using .NET, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of applications.
- Database Integration: Implement and maintain database solutions using Entity Framework as well as using Stored Procedures where required. Some Query optimization, data modelling, and performance tuning would be desirable
- API Development and Integration: Create and consume RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
- Code Reviews and Best Practices: Participate in peer code reviews to ensure high code quality, performance, and adherence to best practices and coding standards.
- Testing and Debugging: Write unit and integration tests to ensure the reliability of applications. Identify and fix bugs to maintain a stable codebase.
- Documentation: Produce clear and concise technical documentation for development processes, APIs, and system architecture.
- Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams including designers, product managers, and QA to deliver high-quality solutions in an Agile environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest developments in .NET and Blazor, proposing and implementing improvements to the codebase and development process.
Skills and experience
Essential Skills:
- Proficiency in C# and .NET: Strong experience in developing applications using C#, with in-depth knowledge of .NET Core and .NET Framework.
- Blazor: Solid experience in building web applications using Blazor, experience of component libraries such as MudBlazor
- Front-end Technologies: Familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks, with a good understanding of responsive design principles.
- Database Skills: Experience working with relational databases using Entity Framework and experience with databases such as MySQL, including database design, query optimization, and stored procedures.
- API Development: Experience in creating and consuming RESTful APIs, along with working knowledge of protocols like JSON and XML.
- Version Control: Proficiency in Git for version control, including branching, merging, and pull requests.
- Problem-Solving and Debugging: Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug and troubleshoot across various layers of the application stack.
Desirable Skills:
- CI/CD: Experience with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automating build, test, and deployment processes.
- Security Best Practices: Understanding of secure coding practices, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT).
- Agile Development: Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, with an ability to collaborate effectively in sprints and participate in ceremonies like stand-ups and retrospectives.
Experience:
- Professional Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in software development with C#/.NET, including experience with Blazor or another component-based technology
- Full-Stack Development: Proven experience in full-stack web development, building both front-end interfaces and back-end services.
- Web Application Deployment: Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including deploying applications to production environments.
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
- Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
- Life assurance: three times basic salary
- Free breakfasts and fruit
- Birthday surprise for everybody!
What you can expect from us
At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.
From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.
A bit about us
Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.
We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.
We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.
Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:
Purpose: Make someone's bad day better
Values:
- Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
- Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
- Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
