Overview
The RAC is on a journey to revolutionise the way we provide our differentiated range of driving services to our 13 million personal and business members. We’re looking for problem-solvers and passionate engineers to build digital products with cutting-edge technology.
We have an exciting opportunity to appoint an experienced mid-level Backend Software Engineer to support delivering projects, maintaining and improving our digital products and codebases. You will play a key part in the wider RAC Technology Design community, helping ensure good practice across all domains and adherence to principles.
You’ll collaborate on technical designs, influence architectural decisions, and champion best practices in coding and problem-solving. With a proactive mindset, you’ll identify opportunities to enhance customer experience and improve internal processes whilst supporting digital operations.
The successful person will need a high level of technical expertise in .NET Core, C#, SQL, and alongside experience using the Azure Cloud and Kubernetes.
Joining Digital Development Team on a permanent basis, this role will be a hybrid role, where you will spend two days in the office in Bradley Stoke and three days at home.
We offer more than a job. We offer a career with purpose.
What you’ll do
Day to day, you’ll take ownership of designing and delivering innovative technical solutions, creating practical recommendations, and sharing them with both your immediate team and the wider technology function. As well as;
* Develop high quality software and architecture
* Perform troubleshooting of operational and integration issues
* Attention to detail when writing code and obsessing over delivering high quality solutions to customers
* Keep up to date on emerging technologies ensuring any new tools adopted in the RAC are fit for purpose and commercially appropriate
* Develop solutions using .NET Core, C#, SQL alongside proficiency with the Azure Cloud Environment and Kubernetes
* Able to interface with the business and make sense of complicated or incomplete requests.
* Provide accurate estimates for business initiatives at concept as well as challenging existing estimates to ensure we’re routinely delivering value
* Able to own technical debt across the technology stack and make practical assessments about the relevant priorities.
What you’ll need
* Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic and timeline sensitive work environment.
* Proficient in industry-standard engineering practices and patterns, including event-driven design, service-to-service communication and building reusable services.
* Good understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
* Thorough understanding of best practice in the software engineering lifecycle.
* Understanding of and a passion for automation
* Must have good stakeholder management, communication, organisation, and time management skills.
* An allergy to duplication and proactively seeks conversations to delete/consolidate duplicate technology
* Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
Why RAC?
For more than 128 years, we’ve been keeping drivers moving, and today we’re trusted by over 15 million members. We’re also trusted by our people, with a 4.5-star Glassdoor rating showing that RAC is a place where support, ambition, and opportunity go hand in hand.
We welcome people from every background, value every voice, and back your growth every step of the way. At the RAC, you can bring your full self to work and we’ll be with you every step of the way to help you grow and develop your career.
Ready to make a difference? Your next career move starts here.
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