Lead Software Developer

Required: Strong development - .Net,. C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Core, JavaScript and SQL Server within an Agile environment

Rapidly expanding Software House requires a Lead Software Developer to join their team. You will be responsible for providing Technical lead on projects, providing input to the design and solution provided, as well as ensuring the team adopts leading development practices. Will also help junior team members through code reviews and sharing insight and advice to help upskill.

Must have strong .Net experience covering C#, VB.Net and ASP.Net, Net Core, along with JavaScript and good knowledge of SQL Server databases (the products in question are heavily SQL-based).

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Dealing with multiple concurrent projects, within a fast-paced, commercial environment
• Ensure that all development projects are implemented on-time, to specification and are of the highest quality
• Monitor on-going project progress and report to project & team management
• Ensuring best practices and industry guidelines are adhered to across the Development Team
• This role will involve development of new applications and/or development of additional functionality to existing products, as well as delivering fixes for customers
• Conducting testing on own code
• Devise own work schedule in order to deliver against assigned priorities, in-line with project timescales
• Escalate problems that need to be addressed by Leadership team and provide solutions and workarounds
• Mentoring Junior members of the development team, including carrying out code reviews for Juniors & Peers, making suggestions to increase quality

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive programming experience in .NET (C#, VB.Net and ASP.Net, Net Core) JavaScript - able to write clean and scalable code
• Strong knowledge of SQL database design and query design
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to work within a cross-functional team and provide support to more Junior members of staff
• Experience gained within an Agile environment
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure: Web Apps (Storage, Azure SQL and Cosmos Db) would be highly beneficial

This role is Hybrid - 3 days on site (offices near Rotherham) and 2 days from home.

The company can offer an excellent work environment, with a strong team ethic and fast-paced, high tech sector. Good chances to develop your career in to Team Lead / Management for the right individual.

Due to the volume of applications, we can only respond to those whom match the above criteria.