Graduate/Junior Developer

Location: Hybrid - 2 days home work, 3 days office based (Bridgehead Business Park, Hessle)

Hours: 8.30am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience) with bonus opportunity

Reports to: Lead Developer

Role Overview

Parallel is a fast-paced scale up with the backing of parent company Sewell Group. The business supports public sector clients across the UK to make decisions about their services, estates and budgets through the delivery of market leading web applications and data visualisation tools, including SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation).

To support growing client demands and an expanding product range, Parallel is looking to grow its developer team and take the business to the next level.

The Graduate/Junior Developer will join a small but growing software development team to deliver a series of pipeline projects for NHS clients, to modernise technology platforms to enhance existing products and help take the business forward with new products and service offers.

We are seeking a Graduate/Junior Developer to support across various projects whilst being the first point of contact for client enquiries within our SHAPE application. The successful candidate will also be responsible for maintaining and updating datasets within the SHAPE platform that is used by over 10,000 users.

This is the perfect opportunity to work in the fast-paced world of start-ups and scale-ups, but with the security of the backing of a large organisation and the support that comes from that.

If you are a positive, well organised, people person, looking for an opportunity to make your mark on national products, with the backing of a nationally recognised top employer, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• Recently qualified Graduate with degree in computer science, software development or related subject
• Proficient in the use of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript and PHP
• Experience of working with backend SQL coding for ideally MS SQL database
• Knowledge of JavaScript, ideally Vue.JS or other modern JavaScript frameworks
• Experience of developing in .NET (C#, ASP, VB) or PHP and frameworks (ideally Laravel)
• The ability to work across multiple applications and projects, in a fast paced, outputs focused environment
• Possess a positive approach to problem solving
• Excellent customer service, listening and communication skills
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise tasks accordingly, meet set deadlines and work with multiple ongoing tasks
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy working environment, but also to work independently without supervision
• A passion for data and software
• Good decision-making skills
• Awareness of the importance of confidentiality
• Have good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy

Desirable

• Knowledge on SaaS Business Model
• Knowledge on designing and best practices
• Ability to use software such as Figma or Adobe XD

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes