Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software and services and one of UK’s largest privately held software companies.

We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient and give more time to do what’s valued.

We started 45 years ago with accountancy software and have evolved to be trusted by more than 100,000 customers in 135 countries around the world. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes and technologies, driven by our Indian and Romanian Product Development Centres to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR and education solutions.

Our global and domestic payroll and HR solutions are used nearly five million employees. Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, and one in eight UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with UK Government, and we are used by 54 of the top 100 US and 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 13,000 schools and academies, and almost five million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school.

In the last year, we have been awarded Technology Company of the Year in the UK Tech Awards; Employer of the Year in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; and the Americas Prime Award from the K2 Enterprise Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, and crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023.

Purpose :

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior software engineer to join our Education development team. As a successful candidate you will be working as part of the IRIS Engineering function specifically on our HR & Compliance portfolio.

This is a ‘hands-on’ technical role working with a team to deliver features, product integrations, defect resolution and technical debt changes across web and cloud products. You will be a part of a full-stack team that is accountable for all aspects of ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching. You will be responsible for the quality and on-time delivery of the software you create, liaising with other development, quality and technical staff to ensure that compliance, and other governance standards are met.

You will need to be highly motivated, have strong communication and problem-solving skills. A team player that can rise to the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment and prepared to learn and apply new technical skills.

This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset.

Skills :

Required Skills: –

• Solid technical grounding in Microsoft stack, Azure and the following technologies:

C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, Entity Framework, LINQ, MVC5, MVC Core, Razor Views, IIS management

AutoMapper, Mediator

jQuery, Bootstrap, SCSS, LESS

Microsoft SQL Server, Rabbit MQ

• Experience implementing development tooling for Microsoft stack (AZURE, JIRA, GIT)
• Significant track record of delivering quality software using agile methodologies.
• Create and review designs to ensure that they are feasible and meet industry and IRIS standards
• Review code, mentor new team members and provide constructive feedback to ensure it meets coding, functional and non-functional standards
• Manage technical projects from inception to in-life maintenance and support
• Strong analysis and problem solving skills used to troubleshoot and fix technical issues

Responsibilities :

Delivery

• Be cognizant of and working towards release schedules for releases including dates and stage gates for all major milestones.
• Build strong working relationships to liaise with other IRIS teams for release purposes e.g. DevOps, Support, QA
• Input to estimation process for requests coming from the business.

General

• Hands on troubleshooting and problem-solving of software to including defect resolution and resolving production issues.
• Ensure consistency and adherence to SDLC and governance processes across team reporting to you.
• Champion nonfunctional requirements, embracing DevOps and shift to left using CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure development tooling is being used consistently & effectively.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts within the team and efficiency.

People

• Contribute a learning mindset within the team
• Supports team members and promotes healthy respectful communications