Lead Software Engineer - .Net with C#

Tyne And Wear, England, United Kingdom

11/12/2024

"At KCS we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."

A market leader in the development and provision of Retail software environments, addressing single or multi-Retail operations, for specialist Automotive, Distribution, Wholesale, Merchant, and Retail industry sectors, addressing single or multi-branch operations, as well as catering for organisations with 'point-of-sale' showrooms and warehouses, currently has a position available for a Software Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple sprint priorities across different smaller projects.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to defined acceptance criteria, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Be responsible to delivery against your own/your teams your team's estimations.
• Following and contributing to project development standards.
• Working cross functionally in an agile team and across a matrix organisation.
• Carry out sprint work in-line with milestone deadlines.
• Conduct unit testing on own code.
• Contribute to code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received.
• Participate in team and work planning sessions, on requirements and system design sessions.
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks, using team burn downs to track and monitor your progress.
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds.
• On rotation, contribute to triaging and fixing priority issues.
• Opportunity to learn/work with integrated delivery pipelines into Microsoft Azure.
  
  

Key Requirements

• Programming experience.
• RDMS or SQL database experience, or other modern database technologies.
• .NET / .NET Core with C#.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development.
• Willingness to learn or have experience of working with distributed architectures such as microservices.
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles.
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes.
• Experience in any of the following would be beneficial: ASP.NET, AngularJS, Blazor, ReactJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Web API.
• Network across a matrix organisation to execute on your commitments.
  
  

Equal Opportunities

KCS Group is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Development Team

• Must work from the office within a multi-layered team
• Have full access to development server and work with other team members on code merge
• Assist QA staff members on testing and documentation
• Assist support members with customer queries
  
  

Company Info

Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is the market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated business management solutions for distributors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers and merchants. Our mission is simple: to design, implement and support high performance systems that enable our customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.

Equal Opportunities

KCS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires us to adjust the recruiting process please do advise us when contacted.

If this role is of interest to you please apply online.

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