The Company
Euromonitor International is the world leader in strategic business research and analysis. A recognized innovator, consistently outperforming our peers with accolades such as Private Company of the Year (2013). We have offices in 15 countries with around 1,400 staff and a further 1000 contributing analysts in over 80 countries around the world. We have come a long way from our beginnings in 1972 and our products now include our award-winning Passport database, consumer and industrial market reports, detailed city surveys, consumer surveys and books. We also have a flourishing Consulting division. Our reports, analysis and forecasts are considered essential reading by business leaders for their cutting-edge content, design and usability. Euromonitor's clients include the world’s major multinationals, banks, consultancies, libraries and business schools.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Technical lead, we are seeking a Software Engineer (Software Engineer Level – 3) with a background in building scalable, predictable, high-quality and high-performing web applications on the Microsoft technology stack.
You will be responsible for building and maintaining internal and external facing applications. You will work with a team of experienced developers and business resources to build high-performing enterprise systems that assist clients in making the best strategic decisions for their business. This includes the maintenance and promotion of department coding standards and naming convention.
Contributing to the creation of project delivery timelines will be a key responsibility by providing technical insight and participating in estimation sizing discussions as required.
Key to this role is ensuring the correct Degree or National Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related qualification.
Key responsibilities
- Based on discussions with your SCRUM Team design applications according to end user needs.
- Track projects, tasks and bugs using the company specified work tracking system.
- Understand requirements from a business perspective and contribute to designing clear, easy-to-use applications from a user perspective.
- Involved in the creation of completely new applications or, build upon the functionality of existing ones.
- Work closely with others on the teams/team members to come up with the best possible solutions for the applications.
- Involved in the development of Euromonitor’s technology solutions to improve functionality, user-friendliness and presentation of our products.
- Involved in independent research contributing to technical discussions where required.
- Understand and contribute toward the level of code quality and test coverage within the SCRUM Team.
- Engage in technical discussion contributing to design and development.
- Liaise with Business Analysts, Product Managers and/or internal/external customers to ensure that requirements are understood.
- Understand and contribute toward the practice of BDD/TDD/DDD as part of the software engineer best practice.
- Participate in peer code reviews.
- Ensure compliance of final product with end-user specifications through regular reviews with designated end-user groups where applicable.
- This could include testing functionality of your own and colleagues’ code for performance and effecting changes to code as required.
- Regular code reviews with colleagues to identify bugs and performance problems ensuring code and product quality
- Monitor, analyze and act on post-deployment bugs.
- Review of user feedback and proposing/implementing action plans for development based on discussion with your team.
- Provide any required support to end-users of the applications.
- Contribute to the training of team members on agile development practices, use of appropriate design patterns and SOLID/design principles in their day-to-day work.
- Contribute to the technical ownership of projects/tasks ensuring their successful completion to project deadlines.
- Ensure the writing of concise documentation for applications and websites.
- Show initiative to use new technologies and methodologies that will benefit projects and responding to the introduction of software advances and upgrades.
- Take ownership and volunteer to collaborate with whole of delivery team and be able to mentor and guide the junior team members.
- Keep upskilling yourselves on a regular basis on the new and latest technology trends and practices.
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Requirements
Technical skills/experience
Required Technical skills/experience:
- 3+ year’s development experience or exposure using Microsoft .NET technologies to build Micro Service Architecture, Web and/or Console Applications as well as Windows and Web Services.
- Experience\Understanding in the below frameworks:
- .NET Core
- WebApi Net Framework 4.6.*
- Asp.Net Core
- Angular
- SQL Server or Azure SQL and/or NoSQL
- Experience\Understanding of DevOps practices including:
- Continuous integration/Deployment (CI/CD)
- QA Automation
- Release Process
- Cloud Development
- Health Monitoring
- Feature toggle-based Development
- Cross Function collaboration
- Experience\Understanding to the below testing toolset:
- Postman, Insomnia
- MSTest/NUnit
- Protractor, Jasmine
- JMeter
- Experience\Understanding to Cloud technologies including:
- OOP programming (theoretical and practical experience of OO design principles and patterns)
- Experience\Understanding
- Agile methodologies
- BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Event Driven Architecture
- API Gateways and Service Discovery
- Knowledge with Visual Studio programming environments and Azure DevOps
Personal Skills
- Good oral and written communication skills; strong communication with both technical and business teams.
- Good administrative and organisational skills.
- Self-motivation and drive to take on personal responsibility.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Critical reasoning and decision-making skills.
