Senior Full Stack Developer

Ashdown Group

A market-leading software company based in South West London is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to be part of a team responsible for the development of the company’s software products. You’ll coordinate development on individual Features, working closely with Product Management, other developers and QA to refine requirements and deliver regular releases of high quality, innovative software to meet customer requirements and strategic objectives. You’ll be an experienced voice in a distributed team, developing and maintaining modules of an interconnected suite of products. Initially this will be a home-based role with a view to becoming an office based role as and when this becomes a possibility again.

Key Tasks:

• Reviewing requirements and providing feedback to Product Management (ambiguities, inconsistencies).
• Assistance in drawing up and validating technical specifications.
• Participating in technical planning sessions: Conception, tasks identification and estimation.
• Working with QA team to ensure delivery of a high-quality product.
• Driving the whole development process of individual features within each release.
• Maintaining and refactoring existing codebase, expanding automated tests capability.
• Reporting on progress, issues and problems to the team; providing lessons learned and giving suggestions to optimize the work processes.
• Helping more junior, and supporting other senior team members.

Essential Skills:

• Deep experience developing and maintaining C#/.NET REST APIs, and writing enterprise-scale Web 2.0 applications.
• Enjoys learning new skills and working with a team, finding innovative solutions to problems, and contributing to the constant evolution of a mature set of products.
• Strong diagnostic/debug skills and a methodical approach to problem solving.
• Good in-depth knowledge of Client Server and Web architectures on Windows, using SQL Server and tools such as nHibernate, ODATA, EntityFramework, WebAPI in VisualStudio.
• UI experience of TypeScript development, using a range of modern Javascript frameworks (we use Aurelia, but general skills from Angular/React/Vue should be transferable) and awareness of Web 2.0-related issues like CORS, performance, cross-browser compatibility, security, authentication
• HTML/CSS skills for developing standards-compliant UX/UI designs on large, desktop-like’ web applications: accessibility, consistent look-and-feel, useability.
• Experience with source control and build processes: branching, merging, one-push-build processes, configuration management.
• Must be a strong verbal and written communicator, able to articulate complex technical. detail to colleagues in a clear and unemotional manner. Must be prepared to code to specifications/designs/use-cases, and use dialogue to resolve inconsistencies, but also contribute ideas and prototype innovations towards ongoing improvements in the product.
• Agile, self-motivated attitude, keen to add value wherever possible.
• Able to work quickly, accurately, and flexibly towards defined deadlines.

Beneficial Skills:

• Experience implementing OData services.
• Experience implementing data accessing code using ORMs (EF, NHibernate, ).
• UI Experience with 3D (3js), SVG, Canvas and data-visualisation.
• Experience of build and installer Scripting both in JS-tools (node/r.js) and .NET based ones (nant/WiX/Windows Installer)
• Experience of Database Design, SQL Server, and T-SQL, SQL profiling and performance tuning.
• Experience of shipping shrink wrapped software.

Essential Experience:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent; or possess highly relevant experience.
• Must have 5+ years’ experience in development in a professional technical role.
• Must have practical experience of working as a senior part of a structured professional software development environment.