Vacancies

Backend Software Engineer

Main Responsibility

• Responsible for the design, development, unit test, configuration and documentation of high-quality software within agreed project deadlines ensuring that quality solutions are delivered.
• Responsible and accountable for ensuring that our technical product is developed accurately, based on best practice standards, within budget and on time and support the business objectives.
• Responsible for the support and maintenance our digital products, providing appropriate troubleshooting expertise as appropriate
• Assist Lead Engineers in planning, estimation, and development activities
• Responsible for ensuring that security by design is following in our solutions and data security standards are adhered to as part of the software development life cycle.
• Guide, coach, and mentor other developers with a view of improving overall skill set within the team

The Ideal Candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Mandatory

• Proven experience with web applications in C#, ASP .NET, MVC
• Experience creating secure APIs (REST)
• Demonstrable experience of Azure specific application development and deployment. (Azure logic apps, Azure functions, Azure Service Bus)
• Experience with data migration, transformation and scripting using SQL and no SQL databases (Azure SQL, MS SQL 2014, Cosmos DB)
• Demonstrable understanding of best practices in software engineering (TDD, Iterative Development and Continuous Integration)

Desirable

• Familiarity with Scrum framework
• Experience with Cloud platforms for data integration (Azure preferable)
• Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Online
• JS frameworks such as React, Bootstrap, and JQuery; HTML5 and CSS 3
• PowerShell, YAML
• Python, Scala
• Power BI

What’s in it for me?

As part of our team, you will have access to professional qualifications and career opportunities across our Notting Hill Genesis business. You will also receive a generous holiday entitlement of 25 days, rising to 27 days after 2 years of service. You will also receive a simply health cash plan to help cover the costs of your everyday healthcare expenses (eg opticians, dentist, physio), generous pension scheme, and enhanced maternity pay and leave / shared parental leave options / paternity leave and access to our employee assistance programme for confidential support.

This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route (SOC Code 2136)

Benefits

In return we offer:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
• Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

Advert closes: Sunday 20th August 2023 at 23:59. Please note due to the urgency of the role the advert may close earlier should we receive a high volume of suitable candidates.

Assessment: The assessment process will consist of an online technical test and interview.

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.

Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via jobs@nhg.org.uk to discuss your requirements.

About the Company

Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 66,000 homes and employ around 2,000 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future.

Our people

We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.

Our pledges

We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.

We have under-representation of ethnically diverse colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage ethnically diverse candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.

We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation

To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.