Software Developer

Previous experience: Design and development of solutions using .NET web and/or desktop stack, preferably in Azure.

Location: Cambridge Science Park, United Kingdom – Hybrid (3 days at the office) 

Employment type: Full-time regular (flexible working options available) 

Benefits: Competitive salary; flexible benefits fund which can be utilised against over 20 benefits; pension scheme with up to 9% employer contribution; life insurance; income protection insurance; 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays); 3 days paid volunteering

The job

The company’s engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified developers.

We are looking for an ambitious, driven, and analytical software developer to join our team. The ideal candidate is someone self-driven, autonomous, and eager to learn and grow. This is a great opportunity to be part of a team that owns and builds industry-standard solutions that our users rely on to carry out their jobs effectively.

Key responsibilities  

• Work proactively with our agile development team to deliver team goals

• Collaborate with product specialist, testers and other developers to develop features

• Work with the team to plan,prioritise, manage the backlog on regular occurrence

• Engagein constructive code reviews, be able to pair-program with team members

• Be a team player and take responsibility in the team activities, leading activities if required

• Comfortably navigate between required tech stack to deliver team goals

Ideal experience 

From most to least important:

• C#, .NET, Visual Studio, Desktop Development, Design Patterns, Unit Testing

• Knows and aims to apply design patterns and software development best practice

• Experience of working on desktop applications

• Great communication skills, willing to present the development work on various forums

• Be a reliable team member, take ownership of their work and drive the work towards completion

• Be a self-starter who is willing to learn new skills as required by the team goals

• Problem-solving is a big part of what we do. You’ll need to enjoy getting stuck into troubleshooting and solving challenging problems

Great skills to have

• WPF, WinForms, DevExpress, MVVM, User Experience (UX), C++, SQL, Azure DevOps, YAML

• Excellent time management and effective prioritisation

• Have a security mindset, aim to shift left during the development process, works with security advisor to consider security implications ahead of feature development. Work on security backlog regularly to meet security requirements 

• Have a quality mindset, write testable and maintainable code. Contribute towards maintaining the test suite and proactively look for areas to add test coverage

• Have a keen interest in understanding non-functional requirements and look for ways to address it by balancing development on feature work

• Aims to design and develop software with the aim to seek feedback from customer as early and frequently as possible, show empathy for customers when addressing and responding to issues

The team you’ll join 

At AVEVA we help our users to make better decisions in Supply Chain operations. Our tools optimise the use of natural resources, allow efficient collaboration, and maximize equipment utilization. Our software suite allows users to make the best decisions by providing the means to store, share and analyse data, as well as scale up to thousands of what-if scenarios using our cloud hosted distributed computing solution. You’ll be working in an agile software development team with other fellow engineers.