Senior Developer

This is a permanent, full-time vacancy that will close in a month at 23:59 BST.

The Vacancy

The DB Member Valuations team is a close-knit group dedicated to developing our in-house final salary pension scheme valuation systems. The team actively engages with consultants and users, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment through regular meetings and pair working. Through this collaboration, we achieve a shared understanding of the problems faced by our users, ensuring we deliver optimum solutions. As a developer, you will work closely with key stakeholders on a range of software challenges and will have the opportunity to help us improve the team's tech-stack, as well as working on cutting-edge technology. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role within our firm, focusing on building sustainable software that drives our business.

We seek a senior developer to help design, build, deliver, and run world-class digital solutions serving the pensions market.

We are open to considering candidates on a part-time or full-time basis.

What will your role look like?

• Work alongside high-performing, highly-skilled, and multi-disciplinary teams. We work within a DevOps culture that promotes team autonomy and engineering excellence, using the latest technologies.
• Drive innovation and increase the maturity of our frameworks, integrations, and automations.
• Mentor, coach, and provide people management for less experienced team members.
• Design and implement systems in a range of programming environments and software platforms (primarily .NET and Microsoft Azure).
• Pragmatically and effectively assess trade-offs and barriers which will emerge in the delivery of any significant software system.
• Lead non-functional improvement efforts (such as performance profiling).
• Be involved with meaningful work - we can provide complex challenges, at scale, in novel market areas.
• Be core to the delivery teams that build, test, and scale our applications and services.

Though this is a varied role, you are likely to have experience with:

• Object-oriented development patterns and approaches primarily in delivering C# .NET solutions
• Microsoft development stack and Azure Cloud computing technologies, including many of the following:
  • ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core
  • Web Services architecture
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Microservices
  • CQRS
  • APIs
  • SQL Server/Transact SQL
  • Testing frameworks such as NUnit, FakeItEasy, and SpecFlow
  • Git & Azure DevOps
• Message brokers (e.g., Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ) and messaging patterns
• RESTful APIs
• Continuous improvement and delivery practices, DevOps culture, and automation within the Azure DevOps platform (YAML pipelines)
• Behaviour-driven testing approaches and frameworks
• Relational and NoSQL data architectures and technologies
• Experience using a front-end framework (preferably Angular) and associated design patterns

To succeed in this role, you will be:

• Self-motivated with a drive to learn and share knowledge
• Focused on continuous learning and improvement
• An effective communicator and a great team player, able to collaborate with all skill levels in your team
• Able to forge strong and professional relationships at all levels
• Able to collaborate successfully with client and third-party technical teams
• Able to effectively articulate technical concepts with senior stakeholders
• Confident across the entire software development lifecycle

You may also be interested in developing skills in the following key areas (but not essential):

• F#

Please note that as part of the recruitment process for this opportunity, candidates will be expected to complete a clean code exercise.

In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your ideas are valued.
• On-site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, three days paid volunteering leave annually, and a day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Hybrid working with an expectation of two in-office days per week, allowing for flexible work arrangements.
• A flexible working window, enabling you to work between 7 am and 7 pm.

Please note, we recruit on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.

About Us

We've been building better futures for over 100 years, for our people, clients, communities, and the environment.

We thrive on tackling complex problems and believe diverse teams-skills, approaches, backgrounds-are key to innovative solutions. Our independence fosters an environment where our people can be themselves and think freely. We offer pensions, investments, benefits, risk consulting, data, and technology solutions, with over 1000 employees and numerous industry awards.

We are committed to developing our people and encourage diverse applications from all backgrounds, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.

Our hybrid work model combines home and office work to suit individual needs. Find out more about our careers here.

If you need assistance related to a personal requirement, medical condition, or neurological difference during our selection process, please let us know.

Together, we can make this the best job you'll ever have.

We Offer

Our culture

We live and breathe our four values-friendly, confident, partnering, and straightforward-and care about our people, clients, community, and environment.

Job satisfaction

Every employee can make a difference and contribute to our purpose-building better futures-through client work, volunteering, and sustainability efforts.

Reward and wellbeing

We offer competitive salaries, profit sharing, and comprehensive benefits. We prioritize mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing.

Flexible working

We trust our people to work flexibly to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Latest technology

We use cutting-edge technology and software to deliver innovative business solutions.

Career development

Learning opportunities are plentiful, empowering you to shape your own career.