Junior Developer

Description

System C is the UK’s leading health and social care software and services company. Our easy-to-use IT platforms provide a complete view of the individual across all care settings, helping integrate services and improve care. We are a British company with over 35 years’ experience.

Our Health division solutions use leading-edge technologies - including mobile, wearables, instant messaging, and machine learning - to radically redesign services and the way clinicians and patients interact together.

Brief Role Outline

Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices and methodologies of our company – where pace, intelligence and agility are all both expected and valued.

Ability to work away from home and willingness to travel will be required at times.

Duties And Responsibilities

Work in an Agile development team in interpreting requirements, designing, developing and unit testing new software and amending or bug fixing existing modules contained within the product set.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development effort as a hands-on developer within your team.
• Pro-actively seek guidance from colleagues as required to ensure first time correct delivery and continual development of technical skills.
• Ensure code reviews and unit testing are completed, and that these are consistently following departmental guidelines. Where no formal guidelines exist, work with peers to formulate and enforce such guidelines.
• Timely and accurate reporting of assigned work status as required, reporting risks and issues as they arise.
• Triage assigned software defects. Ensure that work on defect resolution does not impact on agreed product deliverables, reporting to Product Owner/Scrum Master where resolution will require renegotiation of deliverable dates for other tasks.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and how they apply to your area. Put forward suggestions for improvement to development processes or tools where applicable.
• Achieve agreed productivity targets in order to ensure tasks are delivered to schedule, reporting as early as possible to Product Owner where deliverables cannot be met.
• Any other activities in support of the business which can reasonably be expected to fall within the capabilities of the employee.
  
  

Qualifications & Work Experience

• BSC or equivalent experience in a software engineering discipline. (preferred but not essential for the right candidate).
• Good communication skills enabling positive collaboration with functions outside development.
• Understanding of formal software development methodologies.
• Awareness and understanding of principles, theories, practices and techniques for delivering software development projects.
• Awareness of C# and .NET framework.