Job Specifications
Senior Developer
Location: Hybrid working - Mostly remote but visits to our Bath office will be necessary
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
The Vacancy
Fun, rewarding and with the opportunity to develop and grow your career. That’s life with L&C Mortgages, the UK’s leading fee free mortgage broker with over 160 awards to its name.
Join us and you’ll be part of a business that takes your progress seriously and wants you to enjoy being part of the L&C family. From ‘The Extra Mile’ colleague nominations – recognising those who go above and beyond, to in depth employee assistance and support programmes, comprehensive benefits hub via Perkbox, your birthday off and much more. This is a place that really wants to give back on the effort you put in.
Right now, we’re seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer to take a leading role in the development of a new business-critical system. This is an exciting opportunity to support the development of our new CRM platform, within a vibrant and forward-thinking finance organisation.
The Role
In this position, you will be responsible for supporting the designing, building, and deployment of robust, scalable software across backend and related technologies, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a dynamic new system that meet evolving business needs.
You’ll provide technical leadership and guidance to junior developers through extensive experience in high quality software development, contributing to architectural decisions and ensuring best practices are upheld across the development lifecycle. You’ll champion code quality through clean coding standards, design patterns, code reviews, and the implementation of automated testing, helping us maintain a reliable and maintainable codebase.
You will take an active role in project planning, task estimation, and progress tracking, ensuring delivery remains aligned with project goals. You’ll also tackle complex technical challenges, analysing and resolving issues effectively and efficiently. Clear, thorough documentation of designs, processes, and APIs will be an essential part of your contribution, ensuring clarity and consistency across the system.
Our technical environment spans a range of modern and established technologies, including .NET 8, C#, MVC, Web Services, Function Apps, and Azure. On the data side, we use SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos, Azure Storage, and Message Queues.
About You
We’re looking for an experienced software engineer holding at least 5 years experience, with a strong foundation in modern software development & practices, including excellent knowledge of Agile development methodologies and hands-on experience with unit testing and mocking. You’ll have strong technical expertise in C#, .NET, MVC and Azure Functions/App Services.
You’ll be a strong analytical thinker with good judgement and the ability to make sound decisions, coupled with excellent written and verbal communication skills and a high level of attention to detail, able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Experience with Azure cloud services, its associated practices, and tooling is essential, along with ample knowledge with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. Experience with SQL, Cosmos DB, APIs or microservices as well as familiarity with front end technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SASS etc) would be highly advantageous. You may also have mentoring experience coupled with your technical knowledge, able to support colleagues effectively and foster a positive, hands on environment to ultimately drive success
Why join L&C?
We care about our customers, but our employees are what make the magic happen. We’re always ready to listen and do what we can to make L&C even better for those receiving and providing our services. Working at L&C means being part of an environment of respect and equality. We’re entering an exciting period and it’s a great time to join us, we’re already the UK’s No.1 online mortgage broker but we don’t want to stop there.
As an employee of L&C, you’ll get:
A starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, plus your birthday & bank holidays off non inclusive of your holiday allowance
The challenges and opportunities that make us develop professionally & personally
Have access to our comprehensive Employee benefit and support schemes, from wellbeing to perks and discounts, we want to give our colleagues the best as thanks for their continued dedication
Being part of a respectful working environment
To come and celebrate at our annual Winter and Summer parties, and other adhoc events through the year
At London & Country Mortgages, we are committed to fostering a recruitment and selection process that is inherently diverse and inclusive. We believe in the strength that comes from a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively seek to create an environment where individuals from all walks of life feel welcome and value