Job Description
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Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?
Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.
Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.
If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we're delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Senior Software Engineer.
We design, build, and support software applications for mobile, web and desktop platforms. We've completed hundreds of successful projects over the last 20 years - helping our customers build internal bespoke systems or bringing new commercial software products to life. We're experts in Microsoft .NET and take an engineered approach to creating secure, efficient and adaptable software.
We have big plans for the future and are looking for talented software engineers to join our team. This position will suit you if you have 5 years or more relevant experience. You might already be an expert in C# / .NET, or maybe you're an expert in a different platform but keen to switch. What matters is that you understand the fundamentals of computer science, have an aptitude for technical problem solving and get a kick out of creating great code and user interfaces.
Requirements
At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career. We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area. If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.
We build mobile, web and desktop apps using a Microsoft technology stack. We use .NET in all our projects - it is a great technology that is only getting better since the introduction of the cross-platform, open-source and MIT-licensed .NET Core. We take an engineer-led approach to our projects which means that you are fully involved in decisions throughout. You'll also be in regular contact with our customers so good communication skills are essential too.
Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:
.NET (5/6/7) and .NET Framework 4.8,
C# and TypeScript/JavaScript,
Xamarin Forms for iOS and Android,
Blazor, ASP.NET, HTML and CSS,
WPF and Windows Forms.
Benefits
Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.
Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.