Senior .NET Developer

Job Description

Company & RoleThis is an opportunity for you to make a genuine difference to peoples lives, helping scientists across the globe to detect &diagnose diseases, including COVID-19. The company isgoing through a period of extraordinary growth, with the ability to influenceprocess, practices &direction with existing &greenfield developments. The software team is a small, empowered, agile team responsible for all aspects of software, including firmware, desktop & eventually web technologies.This is your chance to make a genuineimpact through digital solutions.The role is within theinstrumentation division of a multinational company specialising in DNA testing on a global scale. Having in-house R&D capability as well as a rapidly expanding manufacturing team means that the companycan deliver precision instrumentation&software &be reactive to market demands. Theyhave a proven track-record of delivering PCR instrumentation, analysis software &services across a range of applications. With recent expansion across the group theyare aiming to further grow their research&development activities to deliver the next generation of PCR technology. As part of this process theyare scaling up their development team to introduce a new senior software developer to guide the strategy for a new online digital presence &a supportingportfolio of desktop &cloud-based software.The role will guide the architecture &development of theirdigital solutions, predominantly using Microsoft stack / .NET Core platforms &Microsoft Azure, with scope to supplement this with a wide range of other technologies.This role can be fully remote, although ideally will be a hybrid working pattern, commutable from theirR&D facilities at Stokesley Business Park. (This is located adjacent to themarket town of Stokesley in North Yorkshire, approximately two miles to the southof the Middlesbrough boundary &ten miles from Middlesbrough town centre. Nearby towns are Guisborough (approximately 9 miles by road) &Northallerton (approximately 16 miles by road).. There may be very occasional travel to other sites in Southampton &/orCamberley too.Company Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday
• Company Bonus Scheme or Commission Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Buy/Sell Holiday (up to 5 days leave may be bought or sold)
• Refer a friend (£500 paid to employee for referring a new member of staff)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme: either the Group Pension Plan or the government NEST scheme
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Bonus between 10%-15%

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Write, develop, test and maintain code on various technology platforms
• Architect new digital solutions with a systems thinking approach, understanding the dependencies between different technology platforms and products
• Guide development best practices with other senior developers and the software development manager
• Contribute to the improvement of the delivery lifecycle, through Agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices and frequent retrospectives
• Investigate and implement new technologies to allow the code to be more maintainable as the business scales

Technology StackC# / .NET 5+, React, AzureRequirementsEssential

• Demonstrable experience in C# / .NET Core
• Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-first approaches, preferably in Microsoft Azure
• Experience building web-based APIs, preferably using a microservice based approach
• An agile mindset, an ability to be flexible and adaptable in a growing organisation and the understanding of the software tools and practices to achieve this
• A growth mindset, the desire to grow personally and professionally and not be defined by one technology or way of doing things
• Knowledge of good software engineering practices, such as unit testing, SOLID principles, DevOps principles etc.
• Familiarity with good software lifecycle management concepts:
• Git workflow and change control
• Automated testing
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Issue tracking
• Versioning and release management
• Working with others respectfully as part of a team, seeking out relationships outside of your immediate team, communicating in a safe environment with courage to others in the business if something can be improved

Desirable

• A genuine desire to want to make a difference to peoples lives through providing customers and patients access to diagnostic services in the fight against infectious diseases
• Experience in instrumentation software and R&D, preferably in the field of Life Sciences
• Varied experience across desktop software, cloud services, firmware development, IoT, analysis algorithms and data science using a variety of languages
• Experience of development conforming to specific standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
• Experience of development within regulated applications (e.g. ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and IEC 62304)

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