Software Engineer

at  KERRIDGE COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS CORP

“At KCS we’ve introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work.”
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in the distributive trades, KCS has a wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. KCS has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America.
Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.
Autowork Online is a comprehensive web-based application that simplifies and manages every aspect of running a busy workshop or garage. It automates and organises essential everyday tasks, from generating quotes and invoices to maintaining service records and managing the diary. We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Software Engineer in this team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to
• This role will involve development of applications, and delivering fixes for customers
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks

• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds

  Skills, Knowledge and Experience (Qualification, technical skills, commercial work experience, soft skills such as communication, presentation, personal attributes)

• Programming experience

• SQL database experience
• VB.Net and C# programming skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes
• Experience in any of the following would be beneficial: ASP.NET, ReactJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Web API

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to
• This role will involve development of applications, and delivering fixes for customers
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workaround