Job Purpose

• As a developer in the Calculations team, the primary focus is the design, maintenance and development of the various backend calculation services pertaining to legislative compliance, payroll, and HR, with a strong focus on performance optimization, throughput, and accuracy.
• This involves general coding, innovative design and unit testing of the various elements that make up the PaySpace calculation services. Additionally, as a senior developer, you will bring your exceptionally strong technical understanding of how systems are built to the table.

Duties And Responsibilities
Work ethic

• Lives the company’s values and service standards.
• Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company’s quality requirements.
• Takes personal accountability for service excellence.

Information security

• Understand their role within the organisation from an information security perspective and commit to protecting the organisation’s security information assets.

Finance

• Ensures Cost savings and efficiencies in area of accountability.
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Prepare personal development plans in conjunction with Manager and implement in line with business requirements.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities.

Develop and maintain Calc application

• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.
• Use Azure DevOps to manage tasks and application code.
• Design extensible, secure, scalable, and maintainable enterprise level applications
• Write well designed, testable, efficient and secure code by using best software development practices.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain calc applications built on Microsoft technologies.
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions with development team to ensure understanding and clarity of requirements based on functional and technical needs.
• Develop, refine, and optimize applications.
• Provide third-level support to business users as and when required.
• Ensures the deployment of application into staging/testing environment and ensures application is packaged and supported for deployment of releases.
• Participate in code reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products to ensure implementation/alignment to best practice.
• Make use of your strong technical understanding of industry standards to contribute to our product.

Requirements

Preferred qualifications (advantage, but not essential):

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 5 + years working experience in C#.
• 5 + years working experience in application or web development.
• 5 + years working experience in MS SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Views etc)
• Clean code (SOLID/DRY/YAGNI) principals

Advantages but not essential:

• Redis or similar in and out of memory caching
• Azure
• REST API
• RabbitMQ/Azure Message Bus or similar
• Unit Testing (NUnit)
• Tasks and threads
• Dapper or similar ORM technologies

Competencies:

• Good communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn.
• Innovative problem solver
• Must be able to work as part of a team.
• Be able to work independently as well.
• Work in rapid changing, high delivery environment.