Software Engineer

Abtran is a leading provider in Customer Experience and Business Process Outsourcing Solutions, powered by technology solutions which are developed and supported by our team behalf of our clients. As part of the Org Group that comprises Abtran and Morgan McKinley, we are growing our Technical Services division to design and deliver best in class technology solutions for our diverse clients who operate across a range of industries. We currently have an excellent opportunity for a hands-on, collaborative Software Engineer with full stack experience to join our Engineering Team. The Software Engineer Role, reports to the Lead Solution Architect, and works across a broad range of solutions and technologies that support our clients solutions and power their own digital transformation journeys. You will play a key delivery role in contributing to the technical designs, and hands on coding to implement the proposed solution on a development as a service engagement. Our Software Engineers provide technical ownership in development, testing, deployment and support of robust & scalable solutions, and are not afraid to overcome technical challenges. What we are looking for:

• 3-5 years of Microsoft .NET based full stack development experience.
• Experience of project delivery - managing dependencies, expectations and building trust with all stakeholders to deliver on commitments.
• Strong technical and collaboration skills - because problem solving requires working closely with product managers, architects, end users and clients.
• Loves software engineering and seeing immediate business uptake and use of their implementation.
• Maturity in decision making, prioritisation and management of backlog and competing priorities.
Production support experience - to ensure the solutions we design & implement are fully supported.

Responsibilities:

• Solution engagement. You work with senior software developers and solution architects to design effective solutions and deliver on those designs.
• Technical expertise. Draw on your technical experience to support your team in problem resolution, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
• Participate in agile development. You support your team by eliminating blockers and collaborating with the different stakeholders to ensure quality delivery.
• Ownership & accountability. Pro-active in identifying issues, reacting to incidents, and following through to completion with the relevant teams.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 3-5 years Microsoft based full stack development experience.
  • C#.Net (2+ years)
  • ASP.NET MVC (2+ years)
  • .Net Core
  • Web API
  • EF Core, Entity Framework
  • SQL Server and Azure SQL Experience
• Restful API web service design and API led system integrations
• Proficient in front end implementations, including HTML5, JQuery, Javascript, CSS
• Experience in Azure DevOps / JIRA
• Experience in source code management & versioning tools - Azure DevOps / Git
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices, including automation of build processes, version control systems, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience in secure coding practices following OWASP Top 10 etc.
• Excellent technical abilities, analytical, investigative, problem solving and follow up skills
• Good knowledge of SOLID principles and Azure technologies

Essential soft skills:

• Ability to articulate & communicate solutions to the rest of the scrum team.
• Comfortable engaging with business stakeholders, technical teams and operations teams to clarity and analyse requirements, designs and issues
• Experience collaborating with technical resources who are working hybrid/remotely using MS Teams
• Growth mindset - always open to learning new things

Experience with the following is an advantage:

• Terraform experience
• Development of bespoke solutions hosted in Azure Cloud
• Experience with any popular JS framework like React/Angular etc

Our ideal candidate:

• Loves coding and can operate at multiple levels - they are hands-on and likes to be knee deep in the detail but can also describe their approach and solution at a higher level
• Is motivated and enthusiastic - they have a bias for action and likes to get things moving, working on own initiative to motivate the team towards a target sprint goal.
• Has a strong technical background to be able to collaborate with technical team members
• Comfortable with prioritisation and multi-tasking across multiple work streams.
• Participation in the design and implementation of API-based services and Web applications
• Previous project experience modernising legacy applications to .Net Core. or migrating on-premise solutions to Azure cloud native solutions
• Has examples where you have produced technical documentation and diagrams to describe your solution.

Weve told you what you will do for us, now let us tell you what we will do for you: At Abtran once you join us you become part of a team and part of an amazing community. We believe in nurturing and inspiring our people. We offer training in many different topics in professional development and personal development. Our Learning Management System has been recognised as the ‘Most Innovative Use of Technology in the HR Leadership & Management Awards. We believe in motivating our people to meet their goals and progress in their career and are big on internal promotions. There are so many opportunities for progression and have had many success stories this year and in previous years. Some other employee benefits include:

• Wellbeing programme focused on our peoples health and wellness
• Health Discount Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Discounts
• Life Cover
• Development Programmes to support your progression
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Leap Card Tax Saver
• Maternity Pay & Paternity Pay

We are proud of the community we have built; we work together in our day-to-day roles and through employee initiatives such as our Charity Club, Sports & Social Committee, LGBT Society and Abtran FC Soccer Team. Employee engagement is big at Abtran with events and activities happening all the time to make work fun. We believe in a good work life balance but while you are here, we want to make it as enjoyable as possible. What you need to do now: If you are hungry to succeed in a growing organisation, have the desired background we would like to hear from you now.