Software Developer - UNIX - Warehouse Control Systems

Mid/Senior Software Developer - UNIX - Warehouse Control System - Poole - 2/3 Remote days - Up to £55,000

*Please note that my client cannot offer VISA sponsorship for this position

Your new company
My client is a full service digital & media agency with expertise in mobile and web development. They love to challenge themselves and delve deep in the digital environment and truly enjoy what they do. Their belief is that if you are working in an enjoyable environment, the work quality will reflect that! Their offices in Poole have been renovated and make for very appealing surroundings to work in. This particular role sits within their Warehouse Control System team, supporting their parent company, which is a global technology business!

Your new role
You will be working as a Software Developer on the parent company's Warehouse Control System. You will carry out analysis, design, development and support of software that is of a medium-to-high complexity. You must possess ability to apply and document enterprise architecture and design concepts in the development of complex applications. Abilities include good technical acumen, excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. You will work with architects, scrum masters, managers, product owners, fellow developers, QA teams, senior staff and other key business stakeholders as required to deliver solutions.

Further breakdown of the role:

• Design, develop, and maintain software using programming concepts and software development processes, providing best-practice solutions
• Conduct research, analysis and document/review technical designs and specifications
• Conforming to agreed procedures and standards, contribute to reviewing those standards when appropriate and necessary
• Design and architect software solutions accurately and defend design options, ideas and innovative concepts
• Provide technical analysis and innovative ideas for the design and architecture of scalable software solutions
• Contributes to building software modules that adhere to best practice architecture and technology roadmap for the applications
• Continually in search of better ways to optimize programs, processes, technology design and architecture
• Consistently meet timelines for required deliverables
• Provide accurate ballpark and detailed build estimates for a development task
• Present strong ability to work on multiple priorities and projects
• Demonstrate a good understanding of business concepts, business rules, data flow and database structures of supported systems
• Ability to provide impact analysis to various interconnected systems
• Develop extensive company business acumen and use it with each assignment
• Contribute to and lead the creation and/or review of technical documentation and other project artefacts as needed
• Proactively use good business judgement to keep managers and superiors informed about risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
• Communicate and present to business executives and senior stakeholders when required
• When required, will contribute to the problem solving, troubleshooting and debugging of software on production and non-production environments, and provide root-cause analysis
• May provide out-of-hours support to production systems being available to provide evening, weekend, and holiday production support when called upon
• Work effectively as part of a team or individually, taking a lead role where necessary
• Demonstrate personal integrity and remain professional at all times

What you'll need to succeed

• Must have a minimum 6 years of experience developing business system software, preferably using ANSI C. Must be willing to learn C if no education or experience with the language.
• Communication skills must be above average to excellent.
• In addition to knowledge of ANSI C, good knowledge of programming languages such as Python, PHP, or Java is a plus.
• Must have a solid understanding of relational, NoSQL and non-managed databases such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, D-ISAM, etc.
• Must have a good working knowledge of Web Technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, and HTML.
• Must have a good working knowledge of UNIX systems like HP/UX or IBM AIX.
• Must have expert knowledge using shared memory and data structures like array, stack, queues, linked lists, etc.
• Must have solid debugging skills.
• Has extensive experience of one-or-more software development methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Scrum)
• Must possess at least 3 years' experience with these skills:

o Writing technical specification documentation from requirements documents.
o Developing tasks and performing work break down for project planning purposes
o Must have working knowledge of design tools like UML
o Risk and change management skills and understanding.
o Writing and executing testing plans.
o Performing code reviews.

Bonus points for:

• Knowledge or experience of working with organisations that implement a distribution model

What you'll get in return

• A competitive salary based on experience
• Work for an established large global company
• Generous training options
• Half day Fridays (1pm)
• Free Breakfast
• Monthly team outings
• Relaxed dress code
• Generous holiday allowance + additional week of holiday after first year
• Health Insurance
• Newly renovated office environment

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