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Back-end Software Developer

Employer
hireful
Location
Cambridge
Salary
£39,242 to £47,962 per annum
Closing date
28 Aug 2018

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Back-end Software Developer 

Position: Back-end Software Developer 
Location: Cambridge (Commutable from Cambridge North, Milton, Ely, Swavesy, Histon & Impington, Oakington, Fenstanton, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, Newmarket, Saffron Walden, St Neots, Bedford, Hitchin, Stevenage, Bury St Edmunds and surrounding areas) 
Job type: Full Time, Permanent 
Hours: 35 hour working week 
Salary: £39,242 to £47,962 per annum plus benefits 
Benefits: subsidised staff restaurant, staff sports and social club, 26 days paid holiday plus bank holidays, substantial contributory pension scheme, free private medical, critical illness and life insurance, free on-site parking, season ticket, car / motor cycle and cycle to work schemes, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme and more. 

Closing date: 5pm 28th August 2018 

About the role: 

Our client has an opportunity for a Back-End Software Developer to join them on a permanent full-time basis at their Cambridge Science Park office (free onsite parking and close to public transport). 

As an experienced back-end software developer, you will perform an important role within their agile software development team, responsible for back-end technologies of our clients product lines. You will also take a lead on a developing area, the provision of their data via a new API platform. 

Responsibilities: 

• Supporting back-end software development and working with the other development and QA teams. 
• Providing expert technical guidance, ensuring best practice for development processes, specifically DevOps and continuous delivery pipelines. 
• Undertaking software development tasks as a key developer on the team; peer review and pair program to ensure quality and good design. 
• Eliciting requirements, along with effective interpretation and implementation of user stories, and specifying the technology components of green field and brown field systems and projects. 
• Analysing and assessing current and emerging technologies, ensuring that all development is suitable for long term use and future enhancement. 

About you: 

• Experience developing with the .NET framework in C# 
• Skilled in using design patterns, including MVC. 
• Skilled in using the entity framework. 
• Skilled in using LINQ. 
• Strong understanding of advanced concepts such as generics, async methods, delegates and lambda syntax. 
• Skilled in writing web services using REST, WCF and WebAPI. 
• Support the building of data models and communicating with SQL-based databases: ADO, T-SQL and stored procedures. Ability to plan for data storage. 
• Ability to understand enterprise application architecture, taking into account security, data protection, performance and high availability. 
• Ability to load test applications to ensure they are optimised for speed and scalability. 
• Knowledge of test-driven development, continuous delivery, code coverage tools, unit testing and pair programming. 
• Understanding of a project and software development life cycle. 
• Expert in data interchange formats such as XML and JSON. 
• Knowledge of common standards such as OAuth for authentication. 
• Knowledge of XSLT. 
• Knowledge and experience of HTML and CSS, especially HTML5 and CSS3. 
• Able to build websites and UIs that are responsive and work across a number of browsers and versions, using supplied HTML and CSS (from a framework or boilerplate or web designer). 
• Able to test user interface with knowledge of automated testing e.g. with Selenium. 
• Knowledge and experience of JavaScript including use of libraries such as JQuery and AJAX. 
• Skilled in using server-side code to produce dynamic pages (e.g. Razor). 

Our client is the world’s leading chemistry community and the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists. They are a £50m-turnover not-for-profit organisation with over 500 staff operating around the world and an award-winning global knowledge business. 

You may have experience of the following: Software Developer, .Net Developer, Back-End Software Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, Programmer, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit etc. 

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.

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