Job Specifications
Role: Back End Product Engineer (Mid 1)
Team | Reporting To: Head of Engineering | Connectr Talent Technology
Location: UK
Type: Permanent/Hybrid*
About us:
Connectr Talent Technology is a HR technology business, part of a wider group business – Connectr. The group business has Diversity & Inclusion baked into its DNA and this is at the heart of our mission. We are the SaaS technology of choice for Enterprise businesses – such as British Airways, M&S, Cisco, Lloyds Banking Group and GSK (to name a few) - that care about diversity and candidate experience.
We work as an Agile Product Engineering team to innovate and improve our product. Connectr for Candidates is focussed on improving the candidate experience and improving conversion of diverse talent through the recruitment process. We aim to level the playing field for underrepresented talent and reduce drop-out rates from job offer to day one.
Connectr champions an inclusive, respectful, and creative culture for our own people, values which are reflected in our Engineering team (50% female). We show care and candour in everything we do. We embrace new ideas, take calculated risks, communicate openly and proudly deliver our shared mission. When we are not working remotely, we are based in the Southbank Technopark, alongside other tech start-ups, in the vibrant Elephant and Castle, with its excellent transport links and Mercato Metropolitano food market.
About the role:
We are looking for a Back End Engineer to join our hybrid/London based Engineering team on a permanent basis. As a member of our Engineering team, you will take pride in ensuring that our platform is exceeding expectations and is offering our users a brilliant online experience. Working with the latest tech – including .NET 8, DotNet GraphQL APIs, Docker, AWS, etc. – you will be joining us as we work towards delivering new features to delight our users.
We will expect you to be an excellent collaborator, using your expertise to understand and solve user problems, challenge existing thinking and help others in the team to do the same. You will be working on web applications using cloud services, and naturally we'll need you to have sound C# skills preferably with some experience of building and maintaining APIs. We are always impressed by an eagerness to learn and a proactive attitude.
We are a friendly and supportive team and sharing knowledge and expertise, through peer reviews and pairing, is key to our success. We all contribute to Product discovery and our collective experience results in great outcomes for our users.
Principal Accountabilities:
· Work as part of a Product engineering team to deliver new applications and features, and improve and fix existing software
· Understand business requirements and write clean, tested, maintainable code that meets acceptance criteria
· Continually aim to improve technical ability through a combination of pairing and self-directed learning
· Support & help other engineers to improve their knowledge, skills and processes through pairing, mentoring and code reviews
· Work and contribute to agreed standards and procedures
Key Performance Indicators:
· Successful delivery of software to agreed timeframes and standards
· Proactive collaboration with Product and other teams
· Contributions to meetings, informal training and technical discussions
· Contributions to engineering team culture; collaboration, learning and innovation
· Actively improves own skills through self-directed learning
· Standard of peer reviewed documentation (where relevant)
Skills/Experience:
Essential
· Demonstrable experience of developing web applications in a commercial environment
· .NET C# - ideally with experience of .NET 8
· Entity Framework Code-First or other ORM
· SQL and SQL Server (as a developer rather than administrator)
· Experience building and maintaining APIs (REST or GraphQL)
· Version control – ideally Git and GitFlow
· Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban)
Desirable
· AWS (RDS, S3, K8s)
· Testing mindset
· Experience of working with CI/CD
Your benefits:
· Flexible and remote working
· Competitive salary and annual review
· Salary sacrifice pension scheme
· Finish at 4 Fridays
· Life insurance
· Enhanced maternity cover and paternity leave
· Wellbeing allowance including activity rewards from Yulife
· Christmas and Summer team parties.
· Volunteer days and ways to give back to our communities
Information Security:
Ensure compliance of your team to all rules, policies, and regulations at Connectr including HR policies, D&I best practice and information security and data privacy guidelines. All positions at Connectr hold responsibility for being up to date and in adherence to information security training, guidance and policies provided by Connectr on information security, including GDPR.
Connectr’s commitment:
Connectr is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diverse companies are more innovative and better positioned to succeed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Currently Hybrid working at Connectr means 1 day in the office per week if under 50 miles, 1 day in the office per month if over 50 miles. There maybe other times that we require in person attendance depending on product/company priorities