Senior Software Engineer (Mobile) at Sage

Job description

Job Description The Senior Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, develop and delivery of high quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.

Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership

• Develop, deliver, maintain and implement high quality technical solutions
• Take technical ownership of products or services as defined by the development team
• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services.
• Seek out and act upon feedback.
• Mentoring, coaching, technical & specialist direction to members of the development team.
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas.
• Define and improve the development cycle in line with Sage Values.
• Manage problems and major defects or impediments.
• Support the business in roadmap planning and documentation
• Provide guidance, clarity and technical direction to management and the team.

Must Have

• Skills, know-how and experience:
• Ability to interpret and/or gather user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem solving skills
• Proficient with several relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Trouble shooting and/or problem solving skills, ability to parachute into any project and assist.
• Be an active and enthusiastic team player
• The ability to self-train on new technologies
• Experience developing commercial mobile applications
• Experience with Xamarin/C# (3+ years)
• Experience with the Agile development process
• Understanding the general mobile architectures and technology trends
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to collect requirements from business people
• MVVM experience is a plus as is Unit of Work pattern experience
• Key Responsibilities Technical / Professional Qualifications
• Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
• Real world application development experience
• Strong Leadership Skills and the ability to work independently on all aspects of a project.

Key performance indicators: (3-5 Max)

• Complete assigned development tasks to agreed level of quality and by the required deadline.
• In depth, technical knowledge of application functionality and architecture
• Ensure team adherence to best practice and processes. For eg: sound development concepts and patterns such as object/service orientated architecture, refactoring and separation of concerns, MVVM, Xamarin.Forms, SQL RAW
• Provide accurate, detailed and timely estimates and track own activities against plan and support team members achieve these goal