JOB TITLE: SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Sheffield or Exeter
Salary: £26,000-£50,000 based on experience
Holiday: 22 days p.a., rising 1 day per year up to 25.
We are looking for exceptional Software Developers to support us in several new and exciting projects relating to rare disease with quality, training and workforce management in pathology and in other healthcare and life science related areas. If you would enjoy working with advanced development methodologies and modern software development techniques then we would like to meet you.

ABOUT US

You will join a growing team of dedicated, friendly and enthusiastic software engineers, data scientists and customer facing product owners. We value teamwork and collaboration with an openness to innovative practices and continuous improvement. We strive to understand our customer needs and deliver high quality solutions. We adopt a dynamic working style utilising a team space in our Sheffield and Exeter offices.

ATTAINMENT/QUALIFICATIONS

Essential: BSc degree or equivalent qualification in a software, maths, science or engineering discipline.
Desirable: MSc/Phd degree in a field with significant computer programming and software engineering. (Senior)

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Essential: Experience/Demonstrations of using technical skills in projects/dissertations.
Desirable: Experience/Demonstrations of using technical skills in industry placement or direct industry employment (Senior). Experience of working within an agile development team using Scrum methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING

Essential: Consolidated use of Java and/ or Next.js / React.js.
Desirable: Typescript, React Native, Next.js, Tailwind and GraphQL. Experience in CI/CD deployments to cloud hosting services such as AWS, Vercel or similar.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

As an experienced software developer you will be a key team member, driving best practice, developing architectures, code, configurations and tests. You will assist colleagues to ensure development velocity.
You will bring your knowledge of development technologies to bear on the developments and assist in team coordination.

MAIN DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Support a variety of projects and contribute across the development stages from requirements engineering, user-story development and interpretation, through use- case and UI design, to documentation, systems configuration and administration.
2. Operating within our Scrum method you will contribute to the delivery of high- quality software within a Continuous Delivery framework.
3. Create awareness of best practice in the use of development technologies and contribute to adoption.
4. Working collaboratively with the Product Owner, you will consider the customer requirements and gain an understanding of implementation to inform solution scoping.
   This job description summarises the main duties and accountabilities of the post and is not comprehensive: the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties of similar level and responsibility.