Software Engineer - Settlement & Billing Engineering

The Developer role within the Settlement and Billing team will provide the right individual an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the revitalization of PayPoint’s financial Back Office systems. The team is currently progressing a major programme of systems renewal, replacement and augmentation across settlement and billing (S&B), as well as supporting the delivery of some high-profile major programmes over the next 3 years.

This position will primarily be based remotely with occasional visits to our office in Welwyn Garden City, as required to fulfil the role brief.

What will you be doing?

You will join a small team focusing on supporting existing and developing new solutions for the Enterprise Back Office, you will take technical guidance and direction from the Senior Developer. The aim is for the role holder to develop over time the capability, confidence, and experience to fully support the senior role through:

• Demonstrating the ability to lead independently on appropriately sized deliverables.

• Where required deputising for the Lead and acting as a representative for the team in stakeholder discussions.

• Building a track record of successful delivery, and gradually increasing your degree of autonomy commensurate with your growing understanding of PayPoint systems.

Your main responsibilities will include, (but not be limited to):

• Development of Finance and Settlement systems to the latest .Net framework.

• Support and maintenance of applications owned/looked after by the team.

• Undertaking a variety of tasks including analysis, estimating, design, coding, and unit testing.

• Developing clean and secure code which adheres to SOLID principles and follows the solution architecture.

• Showing a commitment to deliver high quality, well tested software as part of an Agile team.

• Contributing to better ways of working as the team continues to evolve and mature its Agile ways of working.

• Play a role in the team’s consideration and adoption of DevOps concepts and ways of working.

• Migration of existing applications from on premise heritage hardware to resilient virtual environments in our Data Centres., The Developer role within the Settlement and Billing team will provide the right individual an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the revitalization of PayPoint’s financial Back Office systems., You will join a small team focusing on supporting existing and developing new solutions for the Enterprise Back Office, you will take technical guidance and direction from the Senior Developer. The aim is for the role holder to develop over time the capability, confidence, and experience to fully support the senior role

• The ambition to grow and develop your systems knowledge and development capability, with a view to progressing your career to more senior levels over time.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are absolutely essential – the ability to clearly and concisely explain and/or walkthrough your work to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Deep experience and keen interest in Agile and DevOps ways of working.

• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Actively participate in driving continuous improvement within the team.

• A team player, with a love of technology and passion for quality.

• Be a self-starter that can manage own time effectively.

• Ability to deliver to deadlines in an environment where multiple competing requirements are a part of the job.

• A flexible approach – you need to be comfortable to undertake a variety of different tasks depending upon business need, from contributing to large scale project development, small enhancements, problem fixes and occasionally Live issue support.

What is essential for the role?

• Demonstrable experience within a commercial environment

• Experience of working in an Agile (Scrum, Kanban) environment

• Knowledge of DevOps environment and ways of working

• .NET Core / .NET 5+

• .NET Framework (version 3.5+) and C#

• ORM Technology (NHibernate and Entity Framework)

• Dependency injection (e.g. Ninject, Microsoft Extensions Dependency Injection)

• Experience of Extreme Programming (XP) principles (SOLID, clean code)

• Unit Test Framework (NUnit, MSTest or xUnit.net), Integration Testing

• Mocking frameworks (e.g. Moq)

• SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored procedures, relational database design)

• Source control, Build and Deployment tools, CICD (Azure DevOps).

It would be great if you already have…

• Recognised IT qualifications (such as a computing degree/diploma)

• Microsoft SSIS and SSRS

• Azure Cloud (Networking, Storage, Kubernetes, API Manager, Monitoring, ADF)

• MSMQ

• VB6 and VB.Net

• Postman/SOAP

• Financial systems knowledge

• A general appreciation and understanding of financial/accounting principles

• Experience in Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV implementation and configuration

• Proficiency in SQL, C/AL, AL, and Dynamics 365 configuration.

• Company pension

• Employee discount

• On-site gym

• Private medical insurance, * Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.

• On-site gym at our office, and nationwide corporate rate gym membership

• Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts – for example of shopping or holidays

• Contributory company pension scheme

• Private medical insurance

• Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover

• You’re also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme.