An exciting opportunity has arisen with one of our clients in the North East who are looking for a Software Engineer (Backend) to join their expanding Platform team.
They are welcoming applications from remote engineers and engineers in the North East looking for a hybrid approach to working.
If producing high-quality code and working with the latest technology excites you – this could be the role for you!
What you'll be working on –
- Distributed microservices platform that handles more than 200,000 per minute.
- ASP.NET Core microservices written in C#.
- Powered by .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6.0.
- GitHub (Git) For source control.
- Kibana & Elastic search for logging
- Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring.
- Docker for building containers.
- Kubernetes for running containers.
- Angular 9+
- Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Redis
- 100% Cloud hosted on Azure
What you'll be doing
- Designing and implementing solutions
- Providing support for team owned components, foreseeing potential technical or processing problems and taking steps to prevent them
- Escalating issues to the team and proposing solutions on how we could mitigate/solve those problems
- Play an active part in scrums and team meetings, sharing your ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
- Supporting others by sharing knowledge with people within and outside the team.
What they are looking for
- A passion for delivering quality software solutions
- The ability to work well individually as well as part of a team.
- Great time management skills and able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Excellent communication skills at technical and none technical levels
- Experience developing .net and C# based applications
- Experience in developing web applications in ASP.NET Core Web API
- Design and optimisation of SQL Server Databases
- Good understanding of dependency injection
- Experience with unit testing
- Good understanding of version control – ideally git.
- Creation and use of a RESTful Interface (Web API)
- Experience of modern Javascript standards and some exposure to front end frameworks – especially angular and react – would be considered advantage
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes will be considered advantage,
What you'll get –
- A friendly, flexible and trust based approach to working.
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays and a typically very generous Christmas break.
- Mobile phone and tablet of your choice with contract covered.
- Select Enhanced Bupa private healthcare – Access from day 1 which also includes pre-existing conditions.
- Fully matched private pension (up to 8% matched)
- Life assurance – x4 of your salary to nominated person(s)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Innovation time – You will be given regular opportunities to spend time developing skills and innovating
- Free snacks and refreshments in the office
- Access to Calm – the #1 app for meditation and sleep
- Lots of social events
- Extra discretionary days off through the year as an extra special thank you!
Location – Newcastle Upon Tyne
Working pattern – Hybrid or Remote
Salary – Competitive DOE
Please note – Our client is unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Full right to work documentation is required for the role.