C# Software Developer

C# Software Developer
Mansfield Area (option to work from home 2 days per week)
Up to £60,000 - depending on experience

About them:

My client is a well-established, global trader operating from multi million pound premises in the Mansfield area of Nottingham. They are a family owned business with solid values and many of their workforce stay at the company for the whole of their career.

Overview:

Working with directors, managers and other company employees to analyse business needs and create software systems to facilitate all areas of the business. This will include the design, development, testing and maintenance of new and existing internal systems as well as diagnosing and resolving faults in those systems.

Duties:

• Working with internal departments at all levels of seniority to analyse requirements for the design of new applications, changes to current systems and migrating legacy systems
• Development of new code ensuring all applications are free from bugs and critical errors
• Creating test procedures for new and existing applications including restructuring those applications where necessary
• Maintaining current systems and ensuring any bugs within the code are rectified
• Extracting data from data stores in order to create reports to support internal departments
• Ensuring new code is written following best practice and to company standard
• Testing and evaluating new technologies.
• Identifying and seeking out new opportunities for improvement to internal systems.
• Keeping up to date with new and changing technologies both internal to the company and in the wider world of IT software development.
• In addition, undertaking any other duties that may be reasonably required, which support the smooth running of the department.

Person Specification:

Technical Skills:

• Primarily C# desktop application development using WPF with MVVM design, WCF, limited Xamarin / mobile projects
• Testing experience from unit tests through integration, system and performance testing, ideally using a test framework
• Database experience including a good knowledge of writing SQL statements
• Supporting technologies - Visual Studio, Git, Azure DevOps, Progress Telerik tools, Excel, Linux, Actian Ingres DB, Entity Framework, VMware vCentre
• Other languages - C and bash scripts on Linux, Ingres ABF, Ingres OpenRoad, Python
• Crystal Reports

Person Skills:

• Has proven commercial experience
• Good communication skills with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and concisely with colleagues at all levels of the business
• Ability to work independently and as part of the team
• Ability to perform under pressure and to adapt to changes
• Excellent planning skills and the ability to respond to time frames and deadlines, including managing own workload
• Friendly, approachable and flexible
• Have a meticulous and organised approach to work
• Thoroughness and attention to detail
• Have a logical, analytical and creative approach to problems
• Ability to think creatively and show initiative

Other Information:

• Monday to Friday. The start and finish times are flexible between 8am - 9am and 4.30pm - 5.30pm
• The company offers a number of benefits such as Profit Related Pay Scheme (after 1 year of service), a Group Personal pension plan, subsidised restaurant and car parking.

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