Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – C#
Middlesbrough (Hybrid)
Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?
Who are we?
We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.
If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.
We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.
The Role
Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You’ll be passionate about delivering high quality products and having a significant role in and impact on our success. Your goal is to ensure that our product is developed to high standards and that Causeway retains a competitive edge in the market.
The key areas of responsibility for the Senior Software Engineer include:
- Technical Delivery
- Technical Innovation
- Working alongside PO, SM, Tech Lead and QAs in an agile team to deliver software
Your Responsibilities
- Design, code, test and debug technical solutions including complex components, ensuring that quality standards are achieved.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on areas of the applications working on
- Provide some legacy product support (fixing defects) in older technologies, including active involvement in moving the legacy product forwards into newer web technologies.
- Write clean, well-designed code, following best practice.
- Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
- Collaborate with other team members to help specify, design and develop software, meeting product requirements.
- Identify process deficiencies and propose and implement solutions and improvements.
- Ensure that technical product is developed accurately, based on best practice standards, within budget and on time and support the business objectives.
- Work with the security team to ensure that data security standards are met at all times.
- Ensure that technical implementation is technically sound, defect rates are minimised and products are inexpensive to maintain and support.
- Communicate frequently with Scrum Master, Development Director & Product Owner, and support teams when required
- Take responsibility for your own personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant for solutions being developed.
- Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
- Be willing to listen to and support colleagues with professional problems, devoting time to share knowledge, infusing confidence and expressing positive expectations.
Essential Skills:
- Previous background in a similar software engineering role
- Experience withC#/.NET 8
- Experience withevent driven architecture
- Able to architect solutions with SOLID principles
- Experience of designing RESTful APIs
- Experience of unit, integration and end to end testing
- Experience of microservice development patterns
- Experience of developing software using the services of a cloud provider such as Azure, AWS or GCP
- Able to identify technical risks and propose alternative solutions
- Awareness of current trends and developments in software engineering
- Experience with Agile (Scrum) methodologies and project management
- Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice.
- Highly developed attention to detail
Desirable:
- AWS experience
- Awareness and experience in the use of Azure DevOps as a CI/CD tool
- Terraform IaC experience and a DevOps mindset
Competencies:
- You’ll be focused on delivering high quality technical products
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
- An inquisitive mind and a desire and ability to learn
- The ability to deliver stability and innovation in the quality of work (ie no severity 1 or 2 defects)
- You will want to be part of something special and contribute to the success of the team.
- Tenacious, highly energised, passionate and committed, determined to achieve amazing results and make an impact, delivering to high standards and delighting customers
- Strong team worker with the ability to work within an Agile (Scrum) framework
- Excellent communication skills
- Solution orientated, with a positive, can-do attitude and an ability to work under pressure
- High level of autonomy and the ability to develop an idea into a viable software module with minimum supervision
- Excellent planning and organisational skills to successfully plan and co-ordinate a high number of activities, with excellent time management, prioritisation and the ability to remain calm and objective under pressure
- A passion for building highly testable, effective and maintainable system
What you get from us:
If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.
Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.
Benefits
As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.
- 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service
- 4% matched pension
- Income protection and life assurance
- Access to our award-winning benefits platform
- We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7
- Salary Sacrifice Electric & Hybrid Car Scheme
- £100 allowance towards a fitness club
- Dell, Apple and Microsoft discounts
- Private Medical Insurance
- Paid study leave + volunteering days
Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.