Senior Developer

This is a permanent, full-time vacancy that will close in 20 days at 23:59 BST.

The DB Member Valuations team is a close-knit group dedicated to developing our in-house final salary pension scheme valuation systems. The team actively engages with consultants and users, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment through regular meetings and pair working. Through this collaboration, we achieve a shared understanding of the problems faced by our users, ensuring we deliver optimum solutions.

As a developer, you will work closely with key stakeholders on a range of software challenges and will have the opportunity to help us improve the team’s tech-stack, as well as working on cutting-edge technology. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role within our firm, with a focus on building sustainable software that drives our business.

We seek a senior developer to help design, build, deliver, and run world-class digital solutions serving the pensions market.

We are open to considering candidates on a part-time or full-time basis.

• Work alongside high-performing, highly-skilled, and multi-disciplinary teams. We work within a Dev Ops culture that promotes team autonomy and engineering excellence, using the latest technologies.
• Drive innovation and increase the maturity of our frameworks, integrations, and automations.
• Mentor, coach, and provide people management for less experienced team members.
• Design and implement systems in a range of programming environments and software platforms (primarily .NET and Microsoft Azure).
• Pragmatically and effectively assess trade-offs and barriers which will emerge in the delivery of any significant software system.
• Lead non-functional improvement efforts (such as performance profiling).
• Be involved with meaningful work - we can provide complex challenges, at scale, in novel market areas.
• Be core to the delivery teams that build, test, and scale our applications and services.

• Object-oriented development patterns and approaches primarily in delivering C# .NET solutions
• Microsoft development stack and Azure Cloud computing technologies, including many of the following:
  • ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core
  • Web Services architecture
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Microservices
  • CQRS
  • APIs
  • SQL Server/Transact SQL
  • Testing frameworks such as NUnit, Fake It Easy , and Spec Flow
  • Git & Azure Dev Ops
• Message brokers (e.g., Azure Service Bus/Rabbit
  
  MQ) and messaging patterns
• RESTful APIs
• Continuous improvement and delivery practices, Dev Ops culture, and automation within the Azure Dev Ops platform (YAML pipelines)
• Behaviour-driven testing approaches and frameworks
• Relational and No
  
  SQL data architectures and technologies
• Experience using a front-end framework (preferably Angular) and associated design patterns

• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge
• Focused on continuous learning and improvement
• An effective communicator and a great team player, able to collaborate with all skills in your team
• Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels
• Able to collaborate successfully with client and third-party technical teams
• Able to effectively articulate technical concepts with senior stakeholders
• Confident across the entire software development lifecycle

You may also be interested in developing skills in the following key areas (but not essential):

• F#

Please note that as part of the recruitment process for this opportunity, candidates will be expected to complete a clean code exercise.

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
• On-site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid…