C# Web Developer

C# Web Developer-Permanent

Reading

Who we are

An award-winning bank here to help Britain's go-getters.

More about us

In 2009, the bank set out to be the bank helping those with ideas, big and small, to realise their dreams and to seek and seize opportunity in their personal and professional lives. We call it banking for the bold. Today, we're an award-winning bank that has helped fund the growth of Britain's small businesses through a range of business finance solutions, specialist mortgages and savings accounts that provides our customers with the support they need to make things happen. Join us if you want to find yourself at the heart of a dynamic, growing organisation where our employees are empowered to grow their expertise and build their careers.

Here you'll find yourself at the heart of a dynamic, growing division where innovation and teamwork thrive.

The Role

This exciting opportunity has become available due to the growth of the business area, where the team develops, maintains, & supports responsive web applications in line with changing business needs

As the Developer, you will create quality, manageable, high performing code, and participate in cross functional workshops, working with the business, design and product to identify proportional technology solutions to address the business need. You will communicate complex technical issues in a simple way and always look for the simplest solution to a business / customer problem

The Person

• Previous experience of developing content management systems (CMS) and platforms
• Ensure that coding standards are defined and adhered to
• Create robust best practise development techniques
• Ensure code is delivered to a high quality, functioning to acceptance criteria across all required devices
• Ensure that non-functional requirements are considered including performance and accessibility considerations
• Optimise the performance of the code
• Assist product owners and project managers in release planning.
• Contribute to technical estimation
• Perform code reviews with junior developers
• Setup and manage personal development environments
• Work closely with 3rd party suppliers to ensure smooth handover of code and on going maintenance
• Work closely with the architecture team to ensure adherence to architectural strategy

Must have all the relevant technical experience for the role, plus ideally:

• Umbraco 6/7+ (4+ will be helpful if we get around to migrating the current (url removed) site)
• ASP MVC
• WebAPI
• Responsive design
• Visual studio / Visual studio
• Git source control
• Agile methodologies
• Visual Studio , .Net
• C#, HTML code, CSS/SCSS, Javascript, Jira, SQL server
• Responsive websites, Angular, React
• Git, Postman, Python, Ruby
• Agile methodologies
• Software design patterns
• Writing unit and integration tests
• Ability to pick up and learn existing projects quickly
• Self-sufficient and is equally capable of working alone or in a cross functional team
• Focussed on performance and knows how to get the best out of their code

Nice to have

• Experience working with Jenkins / a CI environment
• Grunt / Gulp task runner
• Angular 1.x (useful for extending Umbraco admin tools)
• Experience working as part of a distributed team
• Typescript
• Modern JavaScript frameworks (probably Angular 2+)

The Rewards

As you would expect, this opportunity offers a competitive basic salary and reward package, and you'll also benefit from our commitment to investing in your professional development.

The bank is an equal opportunities employer