Senior Software Developer at Activate Group Limited #vacancy #remote

Job title:  Senior Software Developer 

Department:  IT

Location:  Remote

Hours: 37.5 hours / week

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

Key responsibilities

  • Design to meet business and non-functional requirements 
  • Build using OOP best practices, relevant design patterns and clean code principles 
  • Test using Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology (test first) 
  • Release using automated deployment/rollback scripts (SQL) 
  • Manage source code versions using Azure DevOps (git) 
  • Proactively ensure a multi-disciplinary team by promoting knowledge sharing and working collaboratively 

Skills and experience

  • Proven problem-solving ability 
  • Good communication skills 
  • Demonstrable C# programming skills, including use of delegates, Entity Framework & LINQ 
  • Familiarity with best practices such as SOLID, design patterns and clean code 
  • Demonstrable use of version control (git preferred) 
  • An understanding of database design (to 3rd Normal Form) and experience of SQL 
  • Familiarity with JSON and XML formats 
  • Desire to learn more about technology and best practice to deliver the best long-term outcomes 
  • SQL beyond basic query writing such as stored procedures, triggers, complex data modelling 
  • A general understanding of asynchronous processing 
  • A general understanding of service architecture 
  • Experience with Windows OS and Linux and scripting using Windows PowerShell, bash 

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
  • Life assurance: three times basic salary
  • Free breakfasts and fruit
  • Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you’re at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we’ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

We also love to have fun together, and our whole company summer and Christmas parties are pretty legendary!

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK’s largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone’s bad day better

Values:

  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

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