Buckinghamshire,
Clarity
Job Title : Web Developer - ASP. Net / C# / MVC / JavaScript / SQL
Salary : £ Dependent on experience
Location : Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire
Are you an experienced Web Developer? Here's a great opportunity…
Introducing Clarity. You may not know us but ten years in, we're pretty proud of what we've achieved so far.
We're an integrated, creative marketing and digital agency that likes to keep things simple. Our Clear Thinking approach works for our clients and, as a result, we're rapidly growing.
Our home is a funky, countryside barn where our people get the time, space and fresh air they need to do what we do brilliantly! But… while we may be rural, we have international offices and work with a number of leading Global brands.
Growing the business and doing great work is all down to our most important asset; our People. This is where you come in…
So what's the opportunity?
We are looking for a back end Web Developer with solid experience in .NET programming. With a host of exciting new projects due to begin this is a fantastic time to join our rapidly growing agency. You will be working as part of a talented team to deliver new innovative digital solutions across multiple sectors for internationally renowned brands. You will be seen as an experienced web developer and it will be your responsibility to share best practice with other team members. You will be expected to set the high standards, continually motivating and improving on personal and team capability whilst working collaboratively to deliver great digital products/solutions.
Clocking on and off…
Your duties day to day:
Designing cross-platform solutions as part of the wider development team
Creating/enhancing/developing in Umbraco CMS, web and mobile applications
Understanding customer requirements and creating all associated technical documentation (technical build, information/solution architecture, test plans)
Advocating improvements in development practices
Enhancing the scalability and performance of systems whilst delivering customer requirements quickly, reliably and efficiently
Ability to liaise when required with product owners, business analysts, developers and QAs to establish and implement requirements and resolve live operational issues for our clients
Left Brain or Right Brain? Which are you?
We think diversity is what makes a team function in the super league so we want to meet you whether you're creative, pragmatic, logical or even completely off-the-wall at times. What's important to us is that you'll feel like an individual here and your voice is heard.
That said there are some traits that all Clarity people share:
Highly motivated and passionate about what you do
Can do attitude, not afraid to challenge or push new ideas forward
Self motivated and honest in your actions
Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
Imaginative, intelligent approach to solving problems
Proactivity - finding solutions for the client and Clarity
Seeing the big picture
High attention to detail and consistent follow-through
Work well under pressure
Ability to take responsibility and drive concepts forward
To act with professionalism at all times
Skills and Qualifications Desired
The ideal candidate's personality and qualifications:
Educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally with a Microsoft Professional qualification
Highly motivated with experience of working with both internal and external remote teams
Committed to delivering high-quality software, websites and web applications using industry best practices (test-driven, Agile, continuous integration)
What experience do we need?
Our Developer will have a proven level of relevant experience, either client side or within an agency.
4+ years experience in hands-on object oriented analysis, design, debugging, implementation and maintenance of solutions.
Strong development skills in ASP.NET MVC, C#, .Net 4.5/4.6, WCF/Web Services, HTML/CSS/XML, MS SQL Server 2008+, AJAX/JavaScript
Good understanding of SQL Server 2008-2014
Good understanding of mobile device oriented development including "mobile first" principles and considerations.
Solid understanding of SPA client side frameworks (e.g. Aurelia/Angular/Backbone/React)
Knowledge of cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services or Azure
TDD, BDD & Automated Unit testing
Experience of adhering to SOLID principles
Has worked on large, complex software applications and databases
Experience of major re-design and re-factoring of complex enterprise solutions
Ability to work in an Agile environment (e.g. following Scrum, XP or DSDM/Atern)
Can tackle performance and scalability issues
Worked with Umbraco CMS previously
Desirable skills/experience
Exposure to native mobile application development (Android/iOS) would be a bonus
Exposure, experience or keen interest of Big Data technologies such as MongoDB, Spark, Hadoop / Map Reduce / Mahout
Experience or keen interest in machine learning / data science / R / Python / Applying machine learning algorithms to low latency data streams
A Rewarding Place to be
We like to reward our people for hard work and offer a lasting career path, a great industry package including a generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme and plenty of socialising!
What makes us tick?
Our team is made up of a bunch of like-minded intelligent people who all have a common goal - to work with passion and inspire bravery in our thinking and all that we do. You won't find hierarchy or politics here, we just like to knuckle down and get on with the job.
We're confident that you will find the grass greener here and the blue skies a refreshing change.
How to join us
If you feel you meet all the above criteria, please click on the 'Apply' link below to send your CV, covering letter and work samples direct to our recruitment team.
. Date posted: 13/04/2016