Company Profile
Smarter Technologies' ability to flex and deliver small bespoke solutions and major transformation programmes is built on a model where the client's needs and goals are prioritised over everything else.
Job Title
Graduate Developer
Working Hours
40 hours per week
Location
Ringwood/Newport, Wales
Purpose
The Graduate Developer will join a dynamic development team working on a range of exciting projects using cutting‑edge technologies. The intention is to expand the business over the next 2–3 years. Activities will include building out the next generation of highly scalable, reusable, and performant distributed services and applications for Smarter Technologies’ extensive and diverse range of customers and clients. The successful candidate needs a proven track record in software development of enterprise‑class solutions that consistently exceed customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities
* Designing, building, testing and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable unit‑tested code.
* Implementing solutions using a range of languages and technologies.
* Assisting with understanding customer requirements, technical design and estimation.
* Ensuring our architecture fits to meet the needs of the business: fast, scalable, reliable and expandable.
* Taking personal responsibility for ensuring all code that goes to production is of top quality and meets customer requirements and needs.
* Ensuring new and existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.
* Continuously improving the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.
* Undertaking code reviews, providing constructive feedback and advising on best practice and coding standards.
* Maintaining a safe working environment and ensuring safe working practices are adopted by employees within this work environment.
Essential Requirements, Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
* Educated to degree level, or equivalent, preferably in Information Technology or related subjects.
* Delivering solutions using Agile methods (Scrum, XP, etc), utilising Test‑Driven Development, code refactoring, with a strong awareness of principles of clean code.
* Developing and delivering software for commercial and public‑sector organisations, with a logical approach to problem solving.
* Using automated unit testing tools.
* Middleware technologies, message queues, message brokers and stream processing technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka).
* Designing and developing RESTful APIs.
* Cloud‑computing platforms and services (ideally Azure).
* Relational and NoSQL database design and strong SQL skills, as well as an awareness of Object‑Relational Mapping technologies.
* Using source control tools such as Git, and software build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
Personal Attributes and Competencies
* Passionate about software development, and producing high quality, innovative code and solutions.
* Quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts.
* Ability to spot trends in the market and implement the most efficient technologies.
* A can‑do, self‑motivated attitude, with strong attention to detail.
* Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, plus relentless ability to come up with different ideas and initiatives that help the business achieve its objectives.
Desirable Requirements, Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
* A great sense of humour.
* A good understanding of working with a public‑sector organisation.
* Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and containerised deployment.
* Experience of Azure DevOps.
The Following Technologies
* C# / .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core
* TypeScript, Angular, React, Node.js, JavaScript ES6
* Ionic Framework, React Native, Flutter, Android/iOS Mobile Development
* Microsoft Power Platform – Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate
* HTML5, CSS
* Cloud computing, serverless functions, preferably Azure.
* MS SQL Server, Cosmos DB, other relational / NoSQL databases.
* Python, Java
* Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint
Contact
vacancies@smartertechnologies.com
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