Developer / Senior Developer

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Developer / Senior Developer

• This role is a Hybrid role – 3 days a week in our Dublin office
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Sage is a global SaaS leader in business management solutions with a local heart. Supporting over a million businesses across the UK through cloud-based accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, and payroll software; we are proud to empower the world’s business leaders who are the innovators, job creators and engine room of the global economy. Our people are passionate and positive. As a FTSE 100 company with 14,000 colleagues across 24 countries, we do business the right way, while giving back to our local communities through the Sage Foundation. Sage Foundation unifies colleagues, partners and customers in a programme of social change philanthropy, with the five days of volunteering given to every colleague each year helping more than 1,000 charities and tens of thousands of people in local communities.

Looking to re-imagine your career? Excited about learning new skills?

You’ll be joining a team of highly capable desktop application engineers who really care about what they do and thrive on collaboration and working as an Agile team to achieve amazing solutions to everyday business needs.

Our Windows desktop development stack includes:

C / C++ (majority of the code)

NET Framework: C#, WPF, Prism, NUnit, etc

MFC

SQL

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality desktop software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.).
• Collaborate with Solution Designers early in the process to ensure the product is flexible, scalable, and resilient.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Collaborate across teams, including product management, QA/XD, various product lines, and business units, to drive results.
• Identify and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal application efficiency and scalability.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Essential requirements:

Strong experience with C / C++

Proficient with Microsoft Windows desktop application development

Experience with .NET Framework; C#, WPF, Prism, NUnit

Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and/or extreme programming methodologies

Preferred:

• Some knowledge of Payroll software (preferred but not essential)
• Familiar with common UI design patterns like MVVM, MVC and MVP
• Familiar with Web Services and Rest APIs
• Familiar with GIT, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins and AWS technologies
• Familiar with Unit Testing / MOCK frameworks
• Interested in writing high quality, robust code involving approaches such as unit testing, code coverage and static code analysis.
• Naturally curious, thrives on learning new technologies and bringing new ideas into the teams to explore
• Relishes solving problems through creative engineering
  
  
  
  
  
  

Why you would love to join us:

You’ll work alongside highly capable desktop application engineers who really enjoy working together and including and supporting new team members in their teams.

We offer a range of benefits that complement a competitive salary, including share save scheme, bonus options and pensions plan.

All colleagues get 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days.

5 days for colleagues to learn or develop skills and behaviours linked to their personal or career development. 

Colleagues can also enjoy an additional number of family friendly benefits including Kids@Sage, Summer Fair and inclusive Foundation Events.

The option to flex start and end times during the week and flexible working.

Sage also offers numerous business resources groups that you can join or simply be supported by such as our Foundation Ambassadors, Pride@Sage, Diversity&Inclusion@Sage and Healthy Mind First Aiders networks.

Make a difference to communities we live and work in, with your 5 volunteer days every year for philanthropic activity. Many of our engineers enjoy supporting educational outreach activities such as Lego League, STEM Ambassadors, Girls in STEM events.

Regular social events, team outings, conference attendance and meet-ups.

If you want to join a flexible, inclusive working environment, and would relish the opportunity to learn and grow within a knowledge sharing culture, we would love to hear from you.