Software Engineer

We are seeking for a talented C# Software Engineer to join one of our highly-skilled and close-knit development teams following Scrum methodologies to develop market-leading insurance pricing solutions.

These are varied and challenging opportunities where you will be able to play a key role creating new product features and enhancing existing code, whilst ensuring the product continues to meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability and performance.

The Role

• Working with the Product Owner to define, refine and deliver the product backlog
• Designing and documenting software solutions meeting functional and non-functional requirements,
• Implementing and refactoring product code (C#), following best practices for maintainability, testability and performance,
• Implementing unit tests, developing test frameworks and associated automated test cases,
• Reviewing and debugging code to identify defects, performance bottlenecks or technical debt,
• Working closely with test engineers to guarantee suitable test coverage, identifying and executing manual tests if necessary,
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices,
• Depending on experience, mentoring junior members of the team and taking a lead role for some of the above activities.

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Some proficiency in software development using C# .NET,
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, detailed software design, implementation, unit and v system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance,
• Experience with Software Engineering best practices: object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, SOLID principles, Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies,
• Experience with software development tools: IDE’s, version control, test automation, continuous integration, defect and backlog management systems

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• Ability to coordinate day-to-day development and bug fixing activities,
• Ability to design high-performance, scalable and extensible software architectures which are also easy to test, debug and maintain,
• GUI design/implementation, knowledge of standards and frameworks such as WPF or WinForms,
• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations,
• Visual Studio, Git and Azure DevOps
• Experience of unit and GUI test automation frameworks such as MS Test and Ranorex,
• Passion for maths, statistics and complex algorithms.
• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Degree-educated with Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or relevant discipline

(ICT_TECH TD_2024_11R)