Mid - Senior Backend Developer

We are seeking a developer who has a genuine passion to deliver innovative software solutions to the highest standard. You will be involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle and bring your valued skills and experience to projects. An ability to work equally well within a team or own your own is required and a willingness to mentor and assist junior staff is also desired.

Recent projects include specialised apps for hand held ticketing machines, real time manufacturing process monitoring, enterprise web applications which integrate with third party APIs, VR, chatbots and applications which exploit the latest in AI and machine learning technologies from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Skills and Responsibilities: -

• Must be willing to learn and adapt to new MS technologies
• Able to take responsibility in delivering a range of projects in a timely manner
• Bug fixing, maintaining and improving existing applications
• Influence the technical architecture on the projects you are involved in
• Be commercially aware with a can-do attitude and plenty of drive and ambition
• An individual who is on top of emerging practices and trends in the Microsoft arena
• Have a thorough understanding of development practices, technical architectures, design patterns and continuous delivery.
• Works well in teams or on your own.
• Willing to help and mentor apprentice/junior staff

Essential:

• An excellent understanding of .NET with 3 years+ commercial experience
• Experience developing Rest services using ASP.NET, .NET Core, Web API
• Microsoft .NET, MVC, C#
• Entity Framework / Dapper
• A solid knowledge of SQL Server
• HTML 5, CSS, and Bootstrap
• Agile (Preferably Scrum)
• Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code
• API development and Integration
• A good understanding of system architecture, performance and security
• Must have worked on team projects of varying complexity
• Microsoft DevOps
• Good documentation skills

Desirable Skills:

• Blazor Server
• Blazor WASM
• Azure
• Automated testing
• Mobile App development
• Front-end UI/UX skills, with JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a great flexible benefits package including 28 days’ holiday and pension contribution, the latest Microsoft Surface Pro, and strong career path. We believe in providing more than just salary and benefits. We’ll give you time and support, to develop your career. You will be able to attend conferences, meetings and be given online training access.

We are based in the heart of Manchester City centre, so perfect for transport links with the Metrolink on our doorstep.

The opportunity to be one of the first in giving great opportunities for progression.

Fantastic chance to work with prestigious clients and businesses in many sectors, including on a variety of different projects.

You will be assisted to become a true certified professional and have access to Microsoft courses.