.Net Web Application Developer
Maidstone
£45,000 - £55,000
VR/03101J

Our client is looking for a full stack, highly skilled and experienced .Net Web Application Developer (ASP, C#, .Net) to help develop and maintain both internal and external client applications. You will be working for a large organisation, who have a set of bespoke applications tailored to all aspects of their industry.

You will be office-based, working in a small team of developers writing new functionality and maintaining existing applications. This role requires an all-round general-purpose developer who has wide interests in complete software development lifecycle and is willing to handle development from initial conception through to deployment and ongoing support. You will report to the head of Systems Development.

This really is an outstanding long-term development opportunity, a chance to join an exciting and stable company, a business that is investing significant amounts of money into its development team to ensure long-term development policies, practices and procedures are continuously improving and operating to the highest standards. You can always improve your technical skills, suggest better technologies for any current problems in the system.

The working site has excellent staff facilities including subsidised canteen, free car park and well-equipped gym - together situated in a spacious modern building close to Maidstone.

Technologies:
ASP.NET, MVC 5, .NET 4.5, .NET 4.7, .NET Core 3, C#, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SQL Server > 2012, Entity Framework/Entity Framework Core, IIS 6.0+, Web Application Development, WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), RESTful Web APIs, Agile methodologies, Angular 2+, Unit testing, Git Repository, Azure web & logic apps, Azure blob storage, Dependency Injection

Skills:
- A minimum of 6 years of commercial experience with C#, ASP.Net, MVC and SQL Server are essential
- Good experience on implementing SOLID principles
- Proficient understanding of code versioning and deployment tools such as GIT, TFS/VSTS, Azure DevOps
- Appreciation of good software architecture and core algorithms and data structures
- Excellent communication skills
- You should have a head for problem-solving, allowing you to identify and create solutions to business related issues
- Practical experience in Agile development methodologies.

Experience in these areas would be desirable
- Azure web apps
- Azure logic apps
- Azure blob storage
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Migrating web applications to Cloud Environment

- Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core
- Multi-tenant Architecture
- Micro-service Architecture

Responsibilities and duties:
Your focus will primarily be on the design, development, support and advancement of the internally developed web-based portal that is used by most business units to perform their daily tasks. This site is also accessible by customers and suppliers to allow a deeper level of interaction and to provide users with the tools and functionality to allow better service and ease of business. You will have the skills, knowledge and confidence to interact with other areas of the company outside of the development team. This includes business analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation - working closely with the project owner or key stakeholder for each task at hand until delivery. During larger projects, time will be made available to spend short periods of time working alongside colleagues in order to learn the tasks they perform and to understand their problems, in order for you to fully understand the business logic of the developments to be undertaken.
- Translating application story board and use cases into functional applications
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code and ensure best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of application
- Give technical support to the application users
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems
- Participate and support other team members tasks to ensure successful project delivery when required
- Code maintenance and delivery to end user in a structured and disciplined manner

Commercial experience in
C#
Web Application
Website API
.Net 4.5 (in process of upgrading)
API in .Net Core 2.1 (in process of upgrading)
Single tenant application - in process of making multitenant (one app but multiple client databases)
MVC application
Code First
N-tier architecture
Entity framework
Async Functions
Linq
Repository pattern
Bit of Angular

Additional pay: Bonus scheme, Loyalty bonus, Yearly bonus

Benefits:
Casual dress
Cycle to work scheme
Discounted or free food
Flexible schedule
On-site parking
Private medical insurance

Education:
Bachelor's (preferred)