Senior .NET Developer

6B Digital is a dynamic and innovative technology company that specialises in digital solutions for healthcare and other industries. We are passionate about delivering cutting-edge solutions that improve the lives of our clients and their customers. Our team is committed to staying at the forefront of technology, and we are currently looking for a Senior .NET Engineer to join us in shaping the future of digital healthcare.

Role Overview:

As a Senior .NET Engineer at 6B Digital, you will play a pivotal role in leading the development of our digital solutions, with a focus on healthcare integration. You will work closely with our engineering team, project managers, and clients to design and implement robust, scalable, and secure .NET-based solutions. Your expertise will be critical in guiding the development to systems capable of helping hundreds of thousands of patients throughout the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

• Leads a team of technical engineers and is responsible for the output in complex development projects.
• Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects.
• Ensures adherence to technical strategies outlined by 6B.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance in development best practices, tools, and frameworks.
• Contribute within the engineering team to establish coding standards and guidelines for development.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, performance, and maintainability.
• Proactively finds risks in development on projects and mitigates with solutions.
• Mentor and assist junior engineers, fostering their growth and development against the 6B Mentoring Programme.

Solutions Activities:

• Contributes to system design activities for large, complex systems within a discovery period.
• Lead a team and manages outputs in the discovery period with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures the engineering team are following the proposed architecture in development and frequently reviews this with the team.
• Documents systems for future use and development in Confluence following company guidelines.
• Creates and maintain a centralised library of packages and boilerplate's to aide future development.
• Writes user stories on projects to contribute to help define the project scope/definition

Quality Assurance and Testing:

• Writes quality, scalable and maintainable code inline with company standards and best practices.
• Leads activities to manage risks and opportunities associated with testing and development.
• Writes maintainable unit and feature tests on projects that follow the AAA methodology.
• Promotes a culture of quality throughout 6B and drives the adoption of testing policies and standards.
• QA’s their own work, ensuring high-quality and ensuring bug-free releases.
• Is responsible for managing the output of junior developers within their mentorship including the quality of code and productivity.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, and delivery managers and product owners.
• Leads project planning, providing technical insights and recommendations.
• Effectively communicate project progress, challenges, and solutions to stakeholders.
• Manages trade-offs and functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation. Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
• Work when required with front office in assisting with sales opportunities on sales calls.
• Assists and produce accurate sales quotes for front office when required.

General Skills

• Adheres to company guidelines in best practices to development.
• Manages their own and others backlog of tickets in Jira.
• Write their own development tasks from written user stories.
• Estimates tickets accurately in the backlog and ensures all tickets have accurate estimations.
• Capable of working alone and unassisted on projects.
• Contributes in Agile ceremonies.
• Contributes and leads on calls with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demos work to external stakeholders, walking through each task and reporting on their progress.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in .NET development, specifically C#, ASP.NET Core | Open-source web framework for .NET Core (6+) and .NET Framework.
• Proficiency with architecture patterns MVC, MVVM etc
• Experience of working in a team with a DevOps culture surrounded by lean / agile delivery methodologies
• Good knowledge of Blazor or other front end frameworks.
• Experience in relational and non relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra or Mongo
• Demonstrable knowledge of writing performant apps via multithreading, compression etc
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Experience with test automation frameworks, Unit/Feature test (nUnit, xUnit or bUnit) and code quality tools.
• Ability to perform in a fast paced environment and to communicate effectively
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with an attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and project management tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Working with version control software such as GitHub.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with integrating with primary care EHRs including SystmOne, EMIS Web and Cegedim Vision
• Experience with integrating with secondary care EHRs including Cerner, Epic, AllScripts and Rio
• Understanding of interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR
• Knowledge of security and compliance in healthcare applications.
• Previous experience with NHS England APIs, e.g. GP Connect, NHS APP, PDS and CIS2
• Previous experience working with SignalR.
• Experience with static code analyzers
• Produces solution documentation, for example a DPIA, System architecture, ERDs and Dataflows.
• Exposure to virtualisation or container technology like Docker and Vagrant
• Experience with IaaS services such as or similar

Benefits

• Unlimited holidays
• Annual appraisals and salary reviews
• Regular team days out and social events
• Flexible work hours and work-from-anywhere policy
• Flexible workspace and equipment support, to meet your role and productivity needs
• Work in Tech4Good
• Health-focused benefits (50% subsidised gym membership, free online GP, prescription delivery etc)
• The “basics” you’d expect (a good pension, regular fully subsidised lunches and breakfasts, access to discounts and company perks and so on)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £46,409.00-£55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Unlimited paid holidays
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Why are you looking to leave your current position?
• What are your salary expectations?
• What is your notice period?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wakefield