Software Engineer at Sage

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Job Description The Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives using the identified architecture. The Software Engineer will design, develop and deliver 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.

Job Context

Sage is transforming into a Saas company. To support this transformation, Sage defined multiple key initiatives to focus on the cloud business. One of these key initiatives for the Medium Segment is to release a Medium Payroll Platform and localise it for multiple markets. To drive success of this platform, a full new Development Team will be established. The Senior Software Engineer will form part of this team, which is responsible for the Core Product/Platform.

Key Responsibilities Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership

• 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

Must Have

Skills, know-how and experience:

• 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