Senior Software Engineer

cardiff, wales, United Kingdom

We are currently looking for a Systems Engineer to work with our Back Office Engineering team, which is the beating heart for all our products and services. Innovation is at the core of the Creditsafe business so it’s imperative that our Engineers are passionate about building scalable, modern solutions to help support the Creditsafe vision for new products and services using AWS as a core technology.

WHO ARE WE?

At Creditsafe, we weave our core values of customer-obsession, trust, respect and the courage to be different into the very fabric of our culture. With these values, we’ve fostered a culture of growth, innovation, well-being and success for the last 20 years at Creditsafe and created a legacy of successful career trajectories within our community of Creditsafers.

Powering business decisions for over 100,000 business across the world requires more than just the right tools. As a company, we don’t shy away from rolling up our sleeves to do everything possible to create a welcoming environment where every new talent is guided, supported and nurtured to grow and become a part of the culture.

With 25 offices across 14 countries, our geographically disperse community of colleagues are a testament to our inclusive and diverse culture that comes together to solve complex problems and learn from each other.

Twice featured in The Sunday Times list of ‘100 Best Companies to Work,’ our list of successful Creditsafers who’ve created long-standing, strong career trajectories out of what started out as jobs, just keeps growing. We’re proud to be a part of a culture and a company where careers are made and where talent meet its true potential.

Twice featured in The Sunday Times list of ‘100 Best Companies to Work,’ our list of successful Creditsafers who’ve created long-standing, strong career trajectories out of what started out as jobs, just keeps growing. We’re proud to be a part of a culture and a company where careers are made and where talent meet its true potential.

THE TEAM

The team designs, implements and maintains a set of critical applications which operate at the heart of Creditsafe, underpinning all Customer and Product activity and servicing millions of transactions per day. The team uses Agile methodologies to build high-quality systems that fulfil Creditsafe’s vision and are always focused on ensuring our applications are built in AWS using cutting-edge engineering techniques.

JOB PROFILE

We are looking for a Senior Engineer who, working with technologies such as .NET, C#, SQL and AWS, will become a key member of our team building within AWS our next generation platform supporting all Creditsafe Products.

Experienced in Agile methodologies to deliver high quality work, the successful candidate will be a skilled and enthusiastic engineer that prides themselves on quality. Possessing excellent problem-solving skills, the successful candidate will be adaptable in using new and different technologies. As an experienced Engineer, the candidate will show a passion for mentoring other team members, improving team processes and being the focal point of the scrum team’s communication.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

Play a hands-on role as part of a Scrum to design, develop, test and maintain high quality applications and backend services that fulfil business needs.

Working collaboratively to design, develop and test solutions.

Take a key role in helping the technology team maintain existing software and data infrastructure.

Write documentation of new processes and products to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Has a strong focus on quality (from both a code and deliverable perspective).

Defines and executes practices such as continuous integration and test-driven development to enable the rapid delivery of working software.

Managing, tracking and updating any work done within agile software development tools such as Azure DevOps.

Mentoring other members of the team.

Facilitate and review team Agile processes.

Being a focal point for team communication.

**Please note that the responsibility lists detailed above are not exhaustive and the Systems Engineer may be requested to perform additional duties / take on additional responsibilities deemed as reasonable by their direct line manager.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Expert knowledge of .NET / C#.

Significant experience of application design and development.

Good experience with application development using public cloud platforms, ideally AWS or Azure.

SQL development, e.g. Oracle or SQL Server.

Knowledge and experience of Agile development methodologies.

Strong understanding of GIT.

Knowledge and experience in SOAP APIs.

Experience of mentoring and leadership.

Desirable

Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies.

Python.

Experience of Web API and WCF.

Experience of migrating large applications to cloud-based micro services.

Working in distributed development teams.

BENEFITS

Competitive Salary.

Company Laptop supplied.

Bonus Scheme.

25 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays).

Hybrid working model.

Healthcare & Company Pension.

Cycle to work scheme and Wellbeing program.

Global Company gatherings and events.

E-learning and excellent career progression opportunities.

Plus more that can be found on the benefits section on the Careers page, https://careers.creditsafe.com/gb.