Backend Software Developer
Codeweavers, United Kingdom

About us

We provide digital solutions for the automotive industry. We do this by creating and maintaining our leading automotive platform. Our platform helps facilitate many aspects of the car buying journey, powering sites used by millions of people a day. We work with a wide range of customers such as Retailers, Web Agencies, Car locator sites, Manufacturers and Lenders.

We’re looking for a passionate and highly motivated engineer to help shape our leading web services platform. You will work closely with your product delivery squad to build robust, well engineered solutions. We make use of extreme programming practises such as CI/CD, TDD and pair programming. Software craftsmanship and learning is a big part of being a Codeweavers engineer and we will provide you with opportunities to grow your skills.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for:

• Working closely with product owners, account managers and end users to translate business problems into platform solutions.
• Working with your team to implement and deliver well engineered features.
• Supporting and maintaining our platform.
• Collaborating with the team to help drive our tools, solutions and practices forward.

Our platform is currently built in C# using a service oriented architecture. Making use of some of the following technologies and frameworks.

• .NET technologies such as .NET framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, WebAPI, MVC etc.
• PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Microsoft SQL Server databases
• Various cloud services such as AWS and Google Cloud
• RabbitMQ
• Protobuf
• ORMs mainly nhibernate
• NUnit, Moq, NSubstitute

• Visual Studio + Resharper / JetBrains Rider
• One trunk source control via SVN
• In house CI/CD tool
• In house project management tool
• Slack

Requirements

We’re interested in hiring talented, passionate people regardless of experience level. For all applicants we would expect:

• No challenge is too big or small.
• You accept feedback gracefully.
• You’re confident to engage with your team.
• You question decisions and ideas that you do not understand or agree with.
• Desire to work in a respectful, transparent and collaborative environment.
• Able to commute to office Dunston, Staffordshire every couple of weeks or as required by your team.

• Graduated with a 2:1 or First Class in BSc Computer Science related degree or similar experience.
• Familiarity with a object-orientated programming language.
• Enjoy building, learning and improving.

• Experience writing clean, performant C# code.
• Experience designing well thought out web APIs.
• Pragmatic engineer who actively avoids over engineering solutions.
• Understanding how to maintain high quality of code in a delivery focused environment.
• Understanding of CI / CD pipeline to safely and effectively build and deploy new functionality.

Benefits

• A 26k to 60k salary, reviewed annually.
• Ability to work remote.
• Flexible work hours.
• A great social scene, including various clubs, regular afternoon quizzes, charity events and annual away day.
• Access to our library and ability to request new books.

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