Software Developer

Job description
Role: Software Developer

Location: Hybrid 1 day a week in London Bloomsbury Office (Closest station Tottenham Court Road/Holborn)

Salary package: Flexible based on experience

Are you a creative, self-starter and full stack software developer?

Do you thrive in an environment that promotes variety, autonomy and innovation?

Looking for your next role in a friendly, hardworking team and values led organisation?

Then we have the role for you!

About Us

We are Supporting Education Group
• Equipping educators with the skills, support and opportunities they need to teach effectively.
• Helping schools deliver the best possible experience for their students.
• Giving parents the right tools to help their children learn.

Supporting Education Group brings together services that support every aspect of a child's journey through school and beyond. We build bright futures through expert support, inspiring staff and cutting-edge technology.

People are at the heart of what we do. It's our aim to create an environment and employee experience, which inspires and encourages our people to do their best work. We spend a significant portion of our lives at work, and we believe it's important to make this as enjoyable as possible.

About The Role

Working as part of a small but business critical team, you will be key in maintaining the products and software systems that keep our clients, as well as our businesses connected. Benefiting from a modern tech stack, and the opportunity to work on new and exciting greenfield projects as well as supporting with optimising the user experience on existing apps and software. This role will provide you with the environment to stretch yourself and grow as a developer, communication and flexibility is key in this faced-paced and varied role. Collaborating with both internal and external teams you will ensure that project requirements (functional and non-functional) are clearly understood, taking a lead from our senior developers, you will need to be a natural problem solver, with a customer success mindset. Using your own initiative and building new solutions that will help to continue our trajectory of growth and innovation, inspiring and pushing the team and mission forward with your contributions.

Key Requirements
• Ability to adapt and flex as needed to build using technology that is best suited to solving the problem.
• Currently, we build with .NET Core, C#, Angular, JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, Azure, RabbitMQ, MS SQL and we adopt new technologies when they'll help us better achieve our goals.
• Write clean, maintainable software to critical deadlines whilst following best engineering practices.
• Natural flair for understanding and then solving challenging problems; through simplistic solutions and services.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail - dev QA your own work to a high level.

About You

A talented engineer you will have a passion for software quality, an eye for continuous improvements. You will have a solution-based approach that focuses on the bigger picture whilst remaining pragmatic and operating within known constraints.

You will be a team player who gets excited about tough business problems, and who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get deep into technology and code to find the best solutions. Taking pride in your work, you will have a strong desire to make a difference and have and have enthusiasm for your own learning and development.

Desired Skills And Experience
• Ideally 3-4+ years' hands-on commercial experience implementing resilient and reliable software and integration solutions, but if you are technically talented, passionate and can communicate then we're interested to hear from you regardless of experience.
• Around 3+ years .NET and C# experience, demonstrating the ability to create and maintain API's, data pollers, rabbit consumers and producers.
• Around 3+ years Angular experience demonstrating the ability to develop end to end solutions with good understanding of service and site structure.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences, and a desire to give and receive regular feedback.
• The ability to bug fix existing code bases and improve processes.
• Strong SQL experience. Demonstrating the ability to create and maintain SQL statements.
• A good understanding of Dapper and how it is implemented.
• Experience in supporting end users' issues and triaging reported problems and delivering excellent customer service to product consumers.

What We Offer
• Whilst we work in a hybrid way, with collaboration being one of our values, we'd expect you to connect with our teams in person, at least one day per week.
• 28 days holiday and get an extra day for each year you stay with us, up to max 33 days PLUS bank holidays.
• We pay for a Healthcare Plan once you've passed probation, which includes access to a private GP.
• From day 1, free life insurance covering up to x4 your salary.
• We'll both add money into your pension pot after 3 months.
• Get 25% off online learning resources for year 1 to GCSE with EdPlace.
• Choose what flexible benefits you want after you've passed probation - this could be buying extra holiday, dental, topping up your healthcare plan, bikes, gym membership, electric cars and give as you earn.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Pluralsight account

By joining the Supporting Education Group, you will become part of a community that is dedicated to transforming lives and sustaining communities, where your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your individuality is celebrated. Together, we will continue to advance our passion for education and build brighter futures for all.