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Principal Software Engineer
Job Posted: 6 hours ago
Salary: £ 600 - 700 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Wilmslow
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platform Team
Contract
Inside IR35
Rate – 600 P/D - 700 P/D
6 Months Initially
Wilmslow Based – 1 - 2 day a week onsite
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work in one of the Cloud platform teams, playing a key role in developing software which makes a real impact to peoples’ lives
The team you'll join are currently completing the development of the suite of micro-services (e.g. Tenancy Admin, Notifications) written in C# and built on the AWS architecture that will comprise our first Cloud Platform, due live later in the year. Many other initiatives are being worked on to support the new platform, such as developing monitoring using DataDog, security hardening using GitHub Actions, introducing Playwright for our automation testing.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Software Engineer within the Cloud platform, you would be part of the Informatics group producing software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis.
Your main responsibilities would include:
Designing, developing and/or maintaining all aspects of software developed within the Cloud platform team
Collaborating with stakeholders on software and technical issues.
Acting as technical expert for coding, process and best practices (e.g. adherence to Definition of Done) and effectively communicate this to the team
Coaching and mentoring of more junior team members.
We are looking for the following skills
Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, with exposure to elements of our back-end technology stack (C#, .Net)
Good experience working with Amazon Web Services, Microservices, API development
Knowledge and application of software engineering practices (e.g. Unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID, BDD etc.) and experience working as part of an agile delivery team.
Continuous delivery, with pipelines implemented in Kubernetes, Docker
Front-End JavaScript Frameworks, especially Angular is advantageous
Experience implementing and maintaining Datadog
Experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlow
Atlassian Jira, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
Ideally some software security best practices and implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices). Not essential.
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