Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.
Job Introduction
What you’ll do
At NHG (Notting Hill Genesis), we are committed to digitally transforming services for our residents. We use some of the most advanced technologies to create great experiences for our customers and augment the services provided by our colleagues across our businesses.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing Software Engineering Team. Working in an agile way, you will play a critical role in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of software systems, and enable the organisation to streamline business processes, improve operational efficiency and drive business growth to ultimately provide a quality service to our residents.
How you’ll do it
- Understand and analyse user requirements and transform them into technical specifications.
- Design and implement software solutions and adopt design patterns that ensure that the system is robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable as well as maintaining data integrity when communicating between different software modules.
- Write clean, efficient and maintainable code in various programming languages.
- Write unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Identify, diagnose and fix software defects and performance issues using logging and monitoring tools to identify issues.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to standards and best practices are maintained.
- Implement middleware solutions and REST APIs to integrate with other systems to enable seamless data integrations.
- Estimate time requirements for tasks and manage timelines effectively.
- Document technical designs, code, APIs and configurations of software solutions and maintain documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer and support ongoing maintenance and enhancements.
- Implement security controls and access management mechanisms to protect software from vulnerabilities and attack exposure. Ensure that the software adheres to relevant security standards and regulations.
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.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
The successful candidate will have experience and knowledge of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in either computer science/Information Systems or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in agile methodologies including Scrum or Kanban.
- Experience developing and deploying applications in a cloud environment specifically using Microsoft Azure
- Hands on experience with integration technologies using Azure Integration services (e.g. Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Manager)
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Python, JavaScript
- Understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML5, CSS
- Working knowledge of databases in Azure including Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB and using Azure data services for data manipulation and reporting.
- Knowledge of Azure AI services
- Experience of deploying solutions through CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar tools to automate deployments and monitoring.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, 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
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is Wednesday 24th July at 23:59
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do a technical assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
We are working exclusively with Michael Page on this campaign. For any queries relating to this position, please contact: Scottjtaylor@michaelpage.com
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
