KCS provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world.
With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in the distributive trades that stretches over 40 years, our wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distr...
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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