Principal Software Engineer

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

11/20/2024

"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 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 Principal Software Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritising and resolving conflicting demands as required.
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Monitor on-going progress and report on exceptions to project and team management.
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to.
• This role will involve development of applications and delivering fixes for customers.
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales.
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received.
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality.
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales.
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks.
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds.
• Mentor other members of the development team.
• Contribute to the product and wider group technical initiatives and ambitions.
  
  

Key Requirements

• Extensive programming experience
• Requires a high level of understanding SQL database design.
• High level of C# programming skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Project Management skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, on time and of good quality.
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes
• A good understanding of .NET, C#, Angular, JavaScript, REST API
• Knowledge of Blazor is desirable.
  
  

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 with software releases.
• 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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