Senior Software Developer
Manchester City Centre
£55,000 per year
The first word that springs to mind with this team – personalities!
We are a dynamic, fun-loving group who work hard, celebrate our successes, and genuinely enjoy collaborating. Enthusiasm, confidence, and a bubbly personality will help you thrive in this team. You’ll have excellent management support, top-notch training, and colleagues who often become friends for life.
We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to join our in-office IT team. This is a pivotal role responsible for developing and maintaining our core platforms and applications to support business growth and innovation. You’ll play a central part in shaping our systems and improving processes across the organisation.
In this role, you will plan, develop, test, and implement software requirements, manage developments from inception to delivery, mentor and support junior developers whilst ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and agile principles. You'll document all development changes and produce clear development guides, review, re-factor, and optimise existing codebases for performance, reliability, and maintainability, maintain and update business documents and templates, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support Management Information (MI) and automation needs.
We require the following:
* Advanced proficiency in Laravel – PHP and C# / .NET frameworks
* Strong experience with Visual Studio and API development
* Expert-level SQL Server skills, including database design, maintenance, complex queries, views, stored procedures, and SSRS reporting
* Solid understanding of REST and SOAP services
* Skilled in XML / JSON data structures
* Excellent communication and mentoring skills, with the ability to lead by example and collaborate across multiple departments
* Proactive mindset with a track record of identifying and implementing process or system improvements
In return we offer:
* Employee of the month awards
* Lunches and treats provided in the office
* Day off for your birthday plus a gift
* Free access to well-being and mental health support
* Company social events all paid for (including overnight stays)
* Your child’s first day of school off work
* No bank holiday working
* Trips to the races, golf days, food and drink outings etc.
* Long service bonus
* End of year awards evening for the entire business
* Retail discounts
* Extra holidays given throughout the year for great attendance
* No weekends or late shifts
To be considered you must have 5 years worth of software developer experience.
Please apply now:
zandra.carter@thecityrecruiter.co.uk | 0161 526 3355