Senior Product Software Engineer

at  Wolters Kluwer

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You will be responsible for the technical delivery of software solutions using established Microsoft technologies. This will include the following activities:

• Work within a team, to deliver:
• software product releases.
• framework, platform wide or cross-cutting technology upgrades.
• engineering projects or product wide changes.
• targeted improvements, modernisation, stabilisation, etc. into legacy systems.
• identification and remediation of technical debt within our software.
• full adoption of modern Engineering practices.
• Work very closely with offshore counterparts and teams, to ensure all activities are coordinated and ensure implementation level specifics meet expected standards.
• Individual hands-on type contribution in design or development at product/project level.
• Oversee and implemented use of standards and high-quality practices, applied through tooling and automation.
• First-hand understanding and management of the use of third-party components, dependencies, licensing and services, aligned to needs.
• Identify and act upon opportunities for continuous improvement, across Engineering, in process, practice or tooling.
• Keep fully up to date with technology trends, and how these may apply to our area.

Required Skills and Experience:

• .NET languages.
• Highly proficient understanding of Web APIs/HTTP/REST/JSON.
• Full stack experience: UX, UI, middle tier services, data access, and RDBMS expertise.
• Highly proficient understanding of development patterns and practices to more effectively implement technical solutions.
• Highly proficient understanding of the full application lifecycle including design, implementation and release.
• Highly proficient understanding of developer-lead testing including unit testing, TDD, BDD and automated code documentation.
• A strong understanding of all aspects of the Agile development process, notably in maximising throughput and fast cycles of development/test and shippable deliverables.

Desired Skills (Not essential but beneficial to have):

• Azure platform services including App Service, Service Fabric, Azure SQL, Storage, APIM.

Other Candidate Requirements:

• Professional commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
• Strong problem solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.
• Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment.

• Work within a team, to deliver:
• software product releases.
• framework, platform wide or cross-cutting technology upgrades.
• engineering projects or product wide changes.
• targeted improvements, modernisation, stabilisation, etc. into legacy systems.
• identification and remediation of technical debt within our software.
• full adoption of modern Engineering practices.
• Work very closely with offshore counterparts and teams, to ensure all activities are coordinated and ensure implementation level specifics meet expected standards.
• Individual hands-on type contribution in design or development at product/project level.
• Oversee and implemented use of standards and high-quality practices, applied through tooling and automation.
• First-hand understanding and management of the use of third-party components, dependencies, licensing and services, aligned to needs.
• Identify and act upon opportunities for continuous improvement, across Engineering, in process, practice or tooling.
• Keep fully up to date with technology trends, and how these may apply to our area