Senior Full-Stack C# Developer
Our client is a leading and innovative supplier of solutions in the cloud, with a broad and rapidly expanding international customer base. Due to continuing success and in support of the business strategy, they are looking for a passionate, creative C# Developer who is excited about solving problems.

As a C# Developer , you'll work with everything from front-end HTML, CSS and JS to server-side C#, client side WPF and MS SQL Server.

C# Developer Experience required:
• Solid programming skills in C#
• Three or more years’ experience in the Microsoft web stack ASP.NET MVC / WCF
• Three or more years’ experience in Entity Framework / SQL Server
• Up-to-date knowledge of modern HTML, CSS and JS
• Knowledge of current security practices
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications / experience.

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE FREE TO WORK IN THE UK FREE FROM THE RESTRICTIONS OF VISA'S AND WORK PERMITS.
Exposed Solutions is acting as an employment agency to this client.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, sexuality, race or religion and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age sex, sexuality, race or religion for this role.

Senior Full-Stack C# Developer
Our client is a leading and innovative supplier of solutions in the cloud, with a broad and rapidly expanding international customer base. Due to continuing success and in support of the business strategy, they are looking for a passionate, creative C# Developer who is excited about solving problems.

As a C# Developer , you'll work with everything from front-end HTML, CSS and JS to server-side C#, client side WPF and MS SQL Server.

C# Developer Experience required:
• Solid programming skills in C#
• Three or more years’ experience in the Microsoft web stack ASP.NET MVC / WCF
• Three or more years’ experience in Entity Framework / SQL Server
• Up-to-date knowledge of modern HTML, CSS and JS
• Knowledge of current security practices
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications / experience.

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE FREE TO WORK IN THE UK FREE FROM THE RESTRICTIONS OF VISA'S AND WORK PERMITS.
Exposed Solutions is acting as an employment agency to this client.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, sexuality, race or religion and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age sex, sexuality, race or religion for this role.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and implement change requests for existing core web-based applications.
• Develop and maintain new and existing internal and customer facing web applications for the control and management of production demands and to provide interactive services to customers.
• Ensure maximum up time of critical company managed applications

Technical Experience/Skills:

• Experience in C#, Web API, ASP.NET (Web Pages & MVC)
• NET Core 2.x
• Entity Framework Core 2.x
• Experience in JQuery, HTML, CSS, AJAX, bootstrap
• SQL Server
• Excellent understanding of OOP and best software design practices and principles
• Working knowledge of Git
• Xamarin experience desirable
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) / Devops exposure or experience desirable.

Personal Attributes:

• Be highly motivated
• Be enthusiastic and eager to learn
• Should have an enduring personal interest in technology and computing

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and implement change requests for existing core web-based applications.
• Develop and maintain new and existing internal and customer facing web applications for the control and management of production demands and to provide interactive services to customers.
• Ensure maximum up time of critical company managed applications

Technical Experience/Skills:

• Experience in C#, Web API, ASP.NET (Web Pages & MVC)
• NET Core 2.x
• Entity Framework Core 2.x
• Experience in JQuery, HTML, CSS, AJAX, bootstrap
• SQL Server
• Excellent understanding of OOP and best software design practices and principles
• Working knowledge of Git
• Xamarin experience desirable
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) / Devops exposure or experience desirable.

Personal Attributes:

• Be highly motivated
• Be enthusiastic and eager to learn
• Should have an enduring personal interest in technology and computing

REF: DW1457
LOCATION: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Developer
SALARY & BENEFITS: circa £36,669 to £44,855 dependent on skills and experience plus great staff benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, generous pension, performance related bonus, enhanced maternity/paternity pay, employee cash back and voucher incentives, and excellent working conditions and perks
WORKING HOURS: Full Time –Monday to Friday flexible working and some working from home options for the right candidate

THE COMPANY, ROLE & YOU: Are you an experienced Lead Software Developer with strong coding, analytical, and problem solving skills ? Bored of working in a one-dimensional/overly transactional role? And want to take the next step up?

Our client is part of the Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment family, and is a vibrant organisation which has established a reputation over 30 years for innovation and quality in educational assessment and research. This branch of the family works with schools, colleges, education authorities, government agencies and other organisations to provide high-quality information through scientifically grounded research.

The work will cover the development of new digital educational products, re-architecture of existing products and other exciting developments as CEM integrates as part of the Cambridge family and you will be based at a new vibrant office in Gateshead Quays from May 2020 onwards.

The new office is a fantastic and vibrant new facility along The Quayside close to the Sage and offers superb staff and employee benefits including a well-being room and on-site cafe with numerous options.

As a Lead Software Developer you will be joining a team of Developers within the CEM Operations department and will be helping to deliver the technical development for CEM’s digital educational products. The role will involve working in one of several agile teams to develop software for digital educational products by utilising a mix of technologies including C# .NET, TypeScript, SQL Server and NoSQL databases. You will also share your wealth of experience and knowledge with Junior Software Developers, and will be expected to offer them guidance, support and mentoring. As well as other developers you will also work with product managers, educational experts, data scientists, designers and more to help achieve the following tasks;

Development and maintenance of software to agreed standards and processes
- Able to act as ‘Solution Owner’ – leading on the development in areas of CEM’s systems
- Develop code to agreed standards using SOLID principles
- Creation of unit tests within a test driven development framework
- Excellent and appropriate documentation in agreed formats
- Code reviews
- Good use of source control, deployment tooling and issue tracking software
- Mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff

Working as part of an Agile Team own and deliver tasks and work items
- Proactive ownership of own work
- Issue resolution and appropriate escalation
- Attendance at daily stand-up meetings and reviews
- Deliver work to agreed timescales and quality
- Updating of assigned tasks in Jira

Input into team planning and reviews
- Refine requirements
- Estimate work
- Identification of technical and process improvements
- Assist in work prioritisation
- work with wider stakeholders

THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate for the Lead Software Developer post will need to hold a good technical degree or an equivalent qualification and experience, and although candidates do not need to be experts in all areas, you will need to have substantial hands on Software Development and Coding experience using either C# or Typescript, SQL, Python, or Javascript. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good understanding of software development design principals and patterns, and have strong analytical and problem solving skills, as well as being an excellent communicator in general.

The new Lead Software Developer will also need experience in object orientated development, as well as knowledge or an understanding of agile development methodologies within an environment using Continuous Integration, and will need to have experience using developing systems that contain multiple components. Candidates will also need to be a collaborative and team orientated individuals who are happy to share their knowledge and experience with Junior Developers and offer them mentoring or guidance where required, and although not essential, it would be highly desirable if candidates also have experience administering and maintaining services on Linux-based servers. Candidates will also need to be able to commute to The Quays in Gateshead, Newcastle which is easily accessible via public transport and within walking distance to the Metro and Newcastle Central train station.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

Does this sound like you? If Yes then click the apply button now!

You will then be sent to an online questionnaire to support your CV and application, please fill in the details and we will be in touch to advise you of the next steps

TSLS

REF: DW1457
LOCATION: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Developer
SALARY & BENEFITS: circa £36,669 to £44,855 dependent on skills and experience plus great staff benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, generous pension, performance related bonus, enhanced maternity/paternity pay, employee cash back and voucher incentives, and excellent working conditions and perks
WORKING HOURS: Full Time –Monday to Friday flexible working and some working from home options for the right candidate

THE COMPANY, ROLE & YOU: Are you an experienced Lead Software Developer with strong coding, analytical, and problem solving skills ? Bored of working in a one-dimensional/overly transactional role? And want to take the next step up?

Our client is part of the Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment family, and is a vibrant organisation which has established a reputation over 30 years for innovation and quality in educational assessment and research. This branch of the family works with schools, colleges, education authorities, government agencies and other organisations to provide high-quality information through scientifically grounded research.

The work will cover the development of new digital educational products, re-architecture of existing products and other exciting developments as CEM integrates as part of the Cambridge family and you will be based at a new vibrant office in Gateshead Quays from May 2020 onwards.

The new office is a fantastic and vibrant new facility along The Quayside close to the Sage and offers superb staff and employee benefits including a well-being room and on-site cafe with numerous options.

As a Lead Software Developer you will be joining a team of Developers within the CEM Operations department and will be helping to deliver the technical development for CEM’s digital educational products. The role will involve working in one of several agile teams to develop software for digital educational products by utilising a mix of technologies including C# .NET, TypeScript, SQL Server and NoSQL databases. You will also share your wealth of experience and knowledge with Junior Software Developers, and will be expected to offer them guidance, support and mentoring. As well as other developers you will also work with product managers, educational experts, data scientists, designers and more to help achieve the following tasks;

Development and maintenance of software to agreed standards and processes
- Able to act as ‘Solution Owner’ – leading on the development in areas of CEM’s systems
- Develop code to agreed standards using SOLID principles
- Creation of unit tests within a test driven development framework
- Excellent and appropriate documentation in agreed formats
- Code reviews
- Good use of source control, deployment tooling and issue tracking software
- Mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff

Working as part of an Agile Team own and deliver tasks and work items
- Proactive ownership of own work
- Issue resolution and appropriate escalation
- Attendance at daily stand-up meetings and reviews
- Deliver work to agreed timescales and quality
- Updating of assigned tasks in Jira

Input into team planning and reviews
- Refine requirements
- Estimate work
- Identification of technical and process improvements
- Assist in work prioritisation
- work with wider stakeholders

THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate for the Lead Software Developer post will need to hold a good technical degree or an equivalent qualification and experience, and although candidates do not need to be experts in all areas, you will need to have substantial hands on Software Development and Coding experience using either C# or Typescript, SQL, Python, or Javascript. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good understanding of software development design principals and patterns, and have strong analytical and problem solving skills, as well as being an excellent communicator in general.

The new Lead Software Developer will also need experience in object orientated development, as well as knowledge or an understanding of agile development methodologies within an environment using Continuous Integration, and will need to have experience using developing systems that contain multiple components. Candidates will also need to be a collaborative and team orientated individuals who are happy to share their knowledge and experience with Junior Developers and offer them mentoring or guidance where required, and although not essential, it would be highly desirable if candidates also have experience administering and maintaining services on Linux-based servers. Candidates will also need to be able to commute to The Quays in Gateshead, Newcastle which is easily accessible via public transport and within walking distance to the Metro and Newcastle Central train station.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

Does this sound like you? If Yes then click the apply button now!

You will then be sent to an online questionnaire to support your CV and application, please fill in the details and we will be in touch to advise you of the next steps

TSLS

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Full Stack Developer with commercial experience with several C# and Node.JS projects, developing software with a cloud-based environment. Experienced of unit and integration testing coupled with an understanding of JavaScript, JSON, XML, RESTful services and MVC / WEB API will strongly benefit your application. Familiarity with SQL, ORM (Entity Framework, Dapper, Sequelize) will be advantageous.

Key responsibilities include:
• Working within a development team to deliver software development on time and to the agreed sprints.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of application
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solution to mitigate and address these issues.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Designing and developing APIs
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.

Essential:
• Degree level qualification in Computer Science or equivalent
• A proven background of successful delivery of software development projects and delivering software products to market
• Strong communication skills – both with clients and internal stakeholders
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail and delivered projects on time and on budget
• Able to work in a team orientated environment as well as autonomously in seeking opportunities and driving them forward
• Pro-active can-do attitude
• The ability to meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
• A solid knowledge and experience in the following: o .NET development in Visual Studio with Object Oriented Design o C# o ASP.NET MVC o HTML/XHTML o Angular.JS o Node JS o Web API o SQL Server o Azure o Ability to produce working web and mobile solutions from design concepts and technical specifications

Desirable:
• A solid knowledge and experience in the following: o Secure coding standards o Enterprise software o Relational or any non-relational DB experience a plus

 .NET core
o Agile scrum
• Experience in working within an Agile development team
• Experience in high street retail, foodservice, leisure or hospitality industries
Additional detail:
• The role will report into the Software Development Lead

Contact Neil Goodall (phone number removed)

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Full Stack Developer with commercial experience with several C# and Node.JS projects, developing software with a cloud-based environment. Experienced of unit and integration testing coupled with an understanding of JavaScript, JSON, XML, RESTful services and MVC / WEB API will strongly benefit your application. Familiarity with SQL, ORM (Entity Framework, Dapper, Sequelize) will be advantageous.

Key responsibilities include:
• Working within a development team to deliver software development on time and to the agreed sprints.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of application
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solution to mitigate and address these issues.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Designing and developing APIs
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.

Essential:
• Degree level qualification in Computer Science or equivalent
• A proven background of successful delivery of software development projects and delivering software products to market
• Strong communication skills – both with clients and internal stakeholders
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail and delivered projects on time and on budget
• Able to work in a team orientated environment as well as autonomously in seeking opportunities and driving them forward
• Pro-active can-do attitude
• The ability to meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
• A solid knowledge and experience in the following: o .NET development in Visual Studio with Object Oriented Design o C# o ASP.NET MVC o HTML/XHTML o Angular.JS o Node JS o Web API o SQL Server o Azure o Ability to produce working web and mobile solutions from design concepts and technical specifications

Desirable:
• A solid knowledge and experience in the following: o Secure coding standards o Enterprise software o Relational or any non-relational DB experience a plus

 .NET core
o Agile scrum
• Experience in working within an Agile development team
• Experience in high street retail, foodservice, leisure or hospitality industries
Additional detail:
• The role will report into the Software Development Lead

Contact Neil Goodall (phone number removed)

Job Description

The Travel Chapter are market leaders for self-catering holidays, providing a wide choice of high quality, personally inspected properties across the UK and beyond. Our diverse network of brands ensures customers find their perfect holiday with ease and help our property owners to reach unique markets and a wide variety of audiences. Our exceptional team of people are invaluable in our fast-growing business, their ambition and passion for what they do is the driving force behind our success.

We are looking for a Senior Test Analyst who can design and implement a UI automation framework, suggest areas in the business that would most benefit from automation and contribute to our performance testing on internal and external systems.

Perks:

• Competitive salary and company pension scheme
• Travel Chapter Employee Rewards - exclusive staff discounts
• Healthcare cash plans
• Employee assistance programme
• 25 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular social and team events with a relaxed, friendly and fun work environment
• Time for training and self-improvement alongside highly effective, motivated and supportive team members!

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and implement an automation framework for existing applications
• Write and maintain a smoke test for some of our key brands
• Integrate Selenium into our build process
• Write, maintain and execute performance tests on some of our internal systems
• Create and execute load tests for our flagship site
• Work with stakeholders to identify key areas for automation
• Setup flexible automation for our commonly repeated test plans
• Work with dev ops on improving our test environments for automation
• Work with test analysts on writing test plans for automation
• Work with developers on implementing with automation in mind

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

Essential

• Experience of delivering performance test solutions on Web UI, APIs and DBs
• Experience in structuring, planning and implementing automated testing frameworks for agile development teams
• Experience in end-to-end QA for agile teams
• Extensive experience working as an automation engineer
• Extensive knowledge of Selenium, ideally in C# and with Appium
• Knowledge of performance testing tools, ideally NeoLoad
• Knowledge of version control and pipeline tools, ideally GitLab
• Knowledge of manual testing tools, ideally XRay
• Knowledge of defect tracking tools, ideally JIRA

Desirable

• Experience of efficient automation testing within iOS and Android platforms
• Knowledge of Load Impact

Competencies:

• A self-driven, independent worker that shows initiative in moving projects forward

King Recruit are acting as a Recruitment Partner for the Travel Chapter, please forward all applications to King Recruit for consideration.

Job Description

The Travel Chapter are market leaders for self-catering holidays, providing a wide choice of high quality, personally inspected properties across the UK and beyond. Our diverse network of brands ensures customers find their perfect holiday with ease and help our property owners to reach unique markets and a wide variety of audiences. Our exceptional team of people are invaluable in our fast-growing business, their ambition and passion for what they do is the driving force behind our success.

We are looking for a Senior Test Analyst who can design and implement a UI automation framework, suggest areas in the business that would most benefit from automation and contribute to our performance testing on internal and external systems.

Perks:

• Competitive salary and company pension scheme
• Travel Chapter Employee Rewards - exclusive staff discounts
• Healthcare cash plans
• Employee assistance programme
• 25 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular social and team events with a relaxed, friendly and fun work environment
• Time for training and self-improvement alongside highly effective, motivated and supportive team members!

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and implement an automation framework for existing applications
• Write and maintain a smoke test for some of our key brands
• Integrate Selenium into our build process
• Write, maintain and execute performance tests on some of our internal systems
• Create and execute load tests for our flagship site
• Work with stakeholders to identify key areas for automation
• Setup flexible automation for our commonly repeated test plans
• Work with dev ops on improving our test environments for automation
• Work with test analysts on writing test plans for automation
• Work with developers on implementing with automation in mind

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

Essential

• Experience of delivering performance test solutions on Web UI, APIs and DBs
• Experience in structuring, planning and implementing automated testing frameworks for agile development teams
• Experience in end-to-end QA for agile teams
• Extensive experience working as an automation engineer
• Extensive knowledge of Selenium, ideally in C# and with Appium
• Knowledge of performance testing tools, ideally NeoLoad
• Knowledge of version control and pipeline tools, ideally GitLab
• Knowledge of manual testing tools, ideally XRay
• Knowledge of defect tracking tools, ideally JIRA

Desirable

• Experience of efficient automation testing within iOS and Android platforms
• Knowledge of Load Impact

Competencies:

• A self-driven, independent worker that shows initiative in moving projects forward

King Recruit are acting as a Recruitment Partner for the Travel Chapter, please forward all applications to King Recruit for consideration.