Analyst Developer

Analyst Developer
Department:
Development
Employment Type:
Permanent - Full Time
Location:
Coventry, UK
Description
Hybrid role - based 3 days in our Coventry office and 2 days working from home.
We are seeking a talented individuals to join the ParentPay Software Development team. If you're passionate about building a career as a Developer, whether as your first step out of education, or as your next step having re-trained, then we can offer you a long-term career and unlimited personal growth.
You will join the team as an Analyst Software Developer. After receiving training we'll get you up to speed as soon as possible so that you are able to contribute to the design and improvement of our products and help us extend our already market leading position.
Our Technologies
C# ASP.NET (.NET 4.5, .Net Core)
Microsoft SQL Server
jQuery / Knockout / Angular
WebAPI / WebServices / WebForms
Visual Studio & ReSharper / Visual Studio Code
Key Responsibilities
Work as part of a cross functional Scrum team alongside enthusiastic and passionate Developers, Business Analysts, Software Testers and UI designers. Working with the team to ensure new and existing functionality is of the highest quality.
Be involved in projects from their inception through to delivery. Working with Agile tools, techniques, and best practices like the Three Amigos to improve our products, focussing on delivering high business value features first.
Deliver high quality software meeting the business requirements, working directly with Business Analysts to ensure we create the best solution for customers and our application.
Develop features at all levels of the software stack, including front end user interfaces, APIs and back end. Using a variety of technologies: C# (.NET 4.5) WebAPI, WebForms, Angular, Web Services, Async Services.
We work within a Continuous Integration development environment and you will be releasing software to test rapidly and releases to production are made every 3 weeks using the scrum process.
Take an active part in all scrum ceremonies including presenting completed work to the wider team at the end of each sprint and contributing to planning and retrospective sessions to make sprints as successful as possible.
Be able to identify the optimal solution to minimise development time, QA time and change risk, without degrading code quality.
The Development team at ParentPay take a pro-active approach to learning with regular knowledge sharing sessions on areas of the application and technologies. You will take part in these sessions and take responsibility for your own self-learning using tools such as Pluralsight.
You will also receive regular coaching and mentoring from your team lead and other members of your scrum team to ensure your personal development continues throughout your career.
Implement software development best practice through the application of agreed processes whilst maintaining an analytical attitude and looking for opportunities to do things better!
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Hands-on experience or professional training as a Software Developer.
Passionate and enthusiastic about coding and want to build a career.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and work well with others.
Development skills in C#, Java or C++. C# is an advantage but not essential.
Highly motivated and proactive, with a positive attitude and desire to complete the sprint and meet the team and business needs.
Able to apply precision and attention to detail to all aspects of your work.
Ability to quickly acquire an understanding of existing code and work with this in new development.
Capable of discussing software requirements and business problems with developers and non-developers. Using technical and non-technical language where appropriate to describe and summarise in a manner that can be understood at all levels
Able to support other members of the team: Developers; Testers & Business Analysts.
A strong team player and work independently without constant management.
Able to work well under pressure to respond quickly to any production issues and find meaningful workarounds until a release can be made.
Flexible and adapt readily to changing priorities and working practices.