Software Developer

Job Reference: WM – 3196

Location: Rotherham

Salary: £45,000

Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Job Title:                     Software Developer

Salary:                         £45,000

Benefits:                      To be discussed at interview

Job Type:                    Permanent

Location:                     Rotherham

Job Start date:            ASAP

Shift Pattern:               Days (Flexitime)

We’re supporting our client, a world leader in the metals industry with advanced, top-tier technology, based in Rotherham, who are looking for a Software Developer to join their growing team.

Position Overview: As a Software Developer, you’ll be a vital part of our operations. Your primary focus will be to develop user interfaces for the company’s new and existing products, and to provide hands-on software engineering expertise to support the Software team to bring new products to market whilst improving the design and performance of all existing products.

Responsibilities for Software Developer:

  • To develop and maintain user interfaces for industrial equipment.
  • To provide additional software engineering resource to the product development team.
  • To provide support to internal and external customers, primarily via email and phone but occasionally on site internationally.
  • To be actively involved in the formal product development process, from idea generation and screening, through concept and prototype development, to final design verification and validation.
  • To identify new areas of research and work closely with other product development team members to deliver product solutions that fulfil the needs of the customer.
  • Generation of requirements documentation to ensure objectives and technical specifications are clearly defined.
  • To support and advise other Software Engineers regarding software options and best solutions.
  • To supervise, as and when required, the activities of additional software engineering resources to ensure the efficient and timely conclusion of projects.
  • To liaise with suppliers to ensure that software projects are delivered to specification and on time.
  • Provide engineering support to Sales and Marketing enquiries to ensure new products and opportunities are realised and fully developed.
  • Provide guidance and support during the seamless transition of new projects from development in to mainstream production.
  • To always act in a professional manner to develop products which are aligned with the principles, strategy and goals of the business and expectations of the customer.
  • There is a requirement within the product development team for a Software Engineer to develop new and existing products.

About You:

The Job Holder must the following skills:

  • C#
  • NET / Blazor
  • Windows services / management and inter-service communications
  • WPF/XAML – desktop application development
  • MVVM
  • Understanding of Design Patterns
  • SQL (Primarily Microsoft SQL Server)
  • Database Design
  • Fully relational and non-relational design as required
  • Allowing extensibility without schema change
  • Use of the following:
  • Linked databases
  • Stored procedures (transaction safe design/implementation)
  • Triggers
  • Version Control
  • Git (Gitlab/GitHub)
  • General IT skills
  • Network configuration / design / basic fault finding.

The following skills would be of an advantage:

  • C#
  • Dependency Injection (DryIOC/.NET Core)
  • JSInterop to use Javascript libraries from C#/Blazor code
  • ZMQ/WCF (message queuing)
  • TCP/IP Socket based communication and UDP
  • Cross platform protocol design/implementation (google protocolbuffers / flatbuffers)
  • Database
  • Temporal and non-temporal data
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Table Value parameters
  • JSON
  • Version Control
  • SVN
  • Dev OPS
  • Teamcity
  • NET Core build / msbuild
  • CMake
  • General IT Skills
  • Familiarity with ActiveDirectory
  • Other
  • C++/C (Embedded Linux / Baremetal)
  • HTML / Javascript

Benefits:

  • 35-hour week, with 1pm finish on Fridays.
  • Flexible start / finish times: start from 7am up to 9:30am, finish from 3:30pm onwards.
  • 25 days of holidays + 2 additional company days (Tuesdays following late May BH and August BH)+ all Bank Holidays. Fridays can be taken using a half day holiday by adjusting working hours Monday – Thursday.
  • Scottish Widows Group Person Pension Scheme – 6% employer and 4% employee contribution.
  • Death in Service benefit of 10 x annual salary, Permanent Health Insurance (for all members of the pension scheme).
  • Westfield Health Level 3 (taxable benefit).
  • Comprehensive induction programme (1 week of induction, including team lunch on the first day).
  • Comprehensive training programme including personal development opportunities.
  • Succession planning programme.
  • For certain roles – Hybrid Working up to 2 days per week from home (following successful completion of probation period, usually 3 months).
  • Opportunity to work condensed hours in the workshop.
  • Fully expensed business travel – where relevant, employees traveling away from home on business, receive an additional £75 per day via payroll. This rate increases to £85 per day after 21 consecutive days.
  • Annual Flu Vaccination.
  • Christmas shut-down.
  • Annual Christmas party (fully paid for the employee and their partner).
  • Various team activities, including celebratory food in the car park, bake off competitions and different charity events.
  • ‘Family feel’ company, dependent care policy, counselling, coaching, enhanced employee support programme.

Job Application:

If you would like to be considered for the role of Software Developer, please apply with your full CV – or call us now. Whilst this position may not be of interest to you or suit your skills and experience, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with a member of the team at Willcox Matthews to understand how we can support you.

Willcox Matthews Recruitment Ltd acts an employment business for permanent and contract roles. By completing the application process, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Notice and that Willcox Matthews Ltd may contact you in connection with your application in relation to Willcox Matthews providing you with work-finding services. Our Privacy Notice can be viewed under the privacy tab on our website.

We take your application seriously and we make every effort to respond to all applicants.

Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK