Software Engineer at Sage

Software Engineer

Looking to accelerate your career? Develop new skills? Make a real difference to customers and communities?. You’ll be joining a team of developers, designers, testers and analysts that are working on one of the world’s largest online business platform – a global product that is used by start-ups, entrepreneurs and business builders the world over.

Your first 12 months will look something like this:

• You will lend your knowledge & experience of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of cloud software development such as Solid Design Pattern and Single Page Application
• You’ll release software to thousands of users globally
• Work with our very own component library (Carbon), built on ReactJS
• Start developing microservices in a containerised environment that are deployed into the cloud (AWS)
• Continue your self-development – via dedicated learning days & attending conferences/meetups. (Many of our colleagues speak at conferences)
• Make a difference to the communities we live and work in with your 5 volunteer days every year
• You will apply your Knowledge on Architecture Best Practices and Patterns (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …)
• A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ will you partner & thrive with all team members to in making valuable contributions
• You will participate in all phases of the project lifecycle
• You’ll be involved in making improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services

Our engineers aren’t code monkeys churning out lines of code in the dark. They’re problem-solvers and thinkers, coming up with creative solutions to complex problems. If you have experience in an object-orientated language, you understand Agile development, and have an appetite to join a team of engineers that really care about what they do, we’d love to have a chat.

Key Responsibilities

• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Contribute to quality activities, incl. peer reviews of estimates, designs and code
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Be an active and enthusiastic team player. Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Proven experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies – international expertise is an advantage
• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle
• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:

• Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of cloud software development such as Solid Design Pattern and Single Page Application
• Ability to interpret and document user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
• High numerical reasoning and logic ability with good problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Knowledge on Architecture Best Practices and Patterns (Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …)
• A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution to any team      within days of joining the team
• Very good in spoken and written English

Preferred:

• 3-7 years relevant professional experience, Payroll and/or financial domain expertise is an advantage
• Innovative and creative thinking
• Atlassian Collaboration Tool Jira & Confluence
• MS Azure experience
• Proven experience in using a TDD approach

Technical / professional qualifications (technical skills on intermediate level):

• Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
• Real world cloud application development experience
• C#.Net
• JavaScript client-side framework (ReactJS)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• REST API / Web API
• Entity Framework or similar
• API development & testing tools – e.g. Postman
• Azure