Senior Software Engineer

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. Its purpose is to be the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services, ensuring customers get it right first time, every time.

IRIS takes the pain out of processes and let professionals working in businesses and schools focus on the work they love. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.

IRIS has over 120,000 UK and international customers with 80% having a tenure of five or more years. IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms and 50 of the top 100 US CPA firms use IRIS software. Circa 20% of the UK’s workforce is paid by IRIS payroll offerings. More than 850,000 UK employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions. Over 11,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their children’s school; 300 million messages are delivered between schools and parents each year, and over £15 million transactional payments are processed every month. IRIS is placed 93rd in the Grant Thornton Sunday Times Top Track 250, which is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, celebrates Britain's private mid-market growth companies with the biggest performance.

As a successful candidate you will join a highly skilled Development team working closely with your Product Owner to deliver working software continuously using Agile methodology and other Agile processes. You will also be a vital part of the wider engineering team at IRIS.

You will use your experience to enhance the products with which you work, drive them forward using the latest technologies and best practices whilst also as maintaining an existing code base to ensure continuing compliance.

We have an exciting opportunity for a tech-savvy IT professional to become a key member of our innovate Engineering team. As part of the Engineering team you will get exposure to the latest technologies, working in a fast moving environment where no two days are the same. Your primary focus will be performing engineering activities with your team (planning, designing, estimating, developing, testing, deploying and supporting) through all stages of our software development lifecycle.

Working in the multi-disciplined DevOps team, you will work on new developments as well as diagnose, troubleshoot and bug fix issues identified by our users.

Main Responsibilities :

· Investigating and resolving issues and bugs

· Writing new code, developing new features and maintaining systems.

· Developing enhancements to existing features

· Investigate new technologies.

· You’ll be able to adjust quickly to changes in priorities and help resolve complex problems.

Ideal Candidate :

· We’re looking for an analytical individual who embraces technology and how it evolves.

· A team player, you will also enjoy working autonomously on projects and daily tasks with minimal supervision.

· Although we work to SLA’s, we encourage our team to identify and develop processes and systems that will benefit the company and our clients.

· A drive and passion to self-learn new skills is vital! We will give you the time to develop your skills, all we ask is for a willingness and drive to learn.

Must Have:

· Advanced skills in a wide range of programming languages (C#, Node js)

· Good front end experience in a mainstream JS framework (React, Angular, Vue)

· Extensive experience of APIs and Web services

· Excellent understanding of Microservice architectures

· Strong back end and Database skills (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)

· Extensive experience of cloud SaaS platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

· Experience with test automation software (xUnit, Mocha, Postman)

· Advanced knowledge of GIT

· Strong knowledge of CI/CD systems & pipelines (Jenkins, Teamcity, Etc.)

· Experience mentoring and leading technical sessions

· Strong foundations in security considerations

· Excellent communication skills

· Experience working in an Agile software development environment

· Solid object orientated programming knowledge and knowledge of software architectural patterns (MVC, MVV