Senior Software Developer

Senior Software Developer
Remote or Hybrid from Exeter, UK

If you want to work with people who enjoy their job and care about what they're doing, who value working with each other and pushing boundaries, who want to deliver quality software that can really make a difference in people’s lives then come and talk to us - we'd like to meet you.

About us
FDB (First Databank), part of the Hearst Health network, is the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide, FDB enables our information system developer partners to deliver valuable, useful, and differentiated solutions. We offer four decades of experience in transforming medical knowledge into actionable, targeted, and effective solutions that help improve patient safety, operational efficiency, and healthcare outcomes.

Our over-arching purpose is to create and deliver the world’s most trusted medical knowledge to improve the health of our world. Our Values underpin every action and interaction, every decision, every day. We commit to working Better Together, with Clear Expectations, always Constantly Curious focusing on Health at the Heart.

The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 working days’ holiday per annum plus statutory holidays
- Flexible option for employees to purchase up to five additional days’ holiday
- Annual company bonus scheme
- Health and Wellbeing allowance
- Health Shield flexible health cash-back scheme
- Electric Vehicle scheme
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Charity days
- Full flexible working
- Enhanced maternity/paternity schemes
- and many more…!

The Role
As a Senior Software Developer, you will be responsible for successfully improving a range of methodologies that are focused on the design, development and acceptance of software solutions. Working collaboratively with the Product Owner, you will consider the customer requirements and gain an understanding of implementation to inform solution scoping.

You will research solutions and share findings with others, making suggestions for improvements, evidencing when challenged. As well as this, you will actively acknowledge any emerging trends and recommend the adoption and use of design patterns and best practices. Additionally, you will perform critical assessments, challenge assumptions and identify the most appropriate acceptance criteria that mitigate potential risk.

In summary, you will:

1. Follow and seek to improve Agile methodologies for the design, development and acceptance of software solutions.
2. Work collaboratively with the Product Owner to understand the customer requirements and gain an understanding of implementation to inform solution scoping.
3. Perform critical assessments, challenge assumptions and identify most appropriate acceptance criteria that mitigate potential risk.
4. Undertake requirements analysis, scoping, specification definition, data analysis and project management as required to meet the needs of the solutions.
5. Create production code and perform code reviews with the team, equally comfortable working alone as in pairs or mob, guiding and coaching where appropriate.
6. Seek emerging trends and recommend adoption and use of design patterns and best practices.
7. Take responsibility and hold self to account for high quality and maximal efficiency of team deliverables.
8. Be eager to learn and research solutions and share findings with others, making suggestions for improvements, evidencing when challenged.
9. Play an active, positive, collaborative role with colleagues and customers.

About You
Our ideal candidate will be:

1. Highly skilled in the theory and application of TDD, BDD, SOLID Principles, Domain Driven Design and Refactoring.
2. Familiar with a range of software, including C#, MVC, .NET framework, TSQL, Unit Testing frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, mocking libraries, JavaScript frameworks such as React and experience using ORMs.
3. Capable within Agile & Scrum development methodologies.
4. Adept at analysis and design.
5. Working at an interpersonal level and seeking to build and maintain relationships through open communication and self-development.
6. A customer-facing, problem solver, seeking to instigate and embrace change, both personally and at a business level. Coaching and mentoring of others.
7. A good communicator, both verbally and written, both external and internal – for example, during agile ceremonies, writing updates for internal and external users.

Other organisations may call this role Developer, Software Engineer, Software Developer, Full-stack Developer, Senior Developer, or IT Consultant.

First Databank UK Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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