Graduate Software Developer

The Business: Founded by a team of financial experts and ex-MAT professionals, IMP Software has a deep understanding of the challenges facing multi-academy trusts. Our mission is to empower multi-academy trusts with the tools and expertise they need to manage their finances more efficiently and effectively. We are trusted by trusts across the country to provide the only budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software designed specifically for them. From a standing start, in less than 5 years we are now used by most large trusts to help them deliver smarter MAT Finance. We are proud to be at the forefront of innovation in the MAT finance sector, and we are constantly looking for ways to improve our offering. We work closely with our customers to understand their requirements so that we can tailor our product to their specific needs, and our team is always available to provide expert advice and support. At our core, we are more than just a software company. We are a team of passionate and dedicated professionals, committed to helping multi-academy trusts achieve their financial goals. We believe that financial planning should be simpler, more accessible, and more transparent, and we are proud to be leading the way in supporting smarter MAT finance. At IMP we are very aware that the success of our business will be directly correlated to the quality of the team that we can attract and more importantly retain! Due to this core belief, IMP offers fantastic career progression within a business that places huge importance on the happiness of the team, through our respectful, fun and supportive culture, flexible working, regular socials and funded/encouraged CPD.

Role Description: We are looking for a Graduate Software Developer to join our team at IMP Software. Software Developers work on cross functional teams to deliver solutions such as IMP Planner and ICFP. The successful candidate will be a collaborative developer, who takes pride not just in the pragmatism of their solutions, but the quality of their code. We are looking for someone who prioritises creative problem solving, structured logical thinking, has a baseline fluency in code and recognises the importance of working in a close knit squad.

Key responsibilities:

• Agile Software Development
• Design, develop, and test software solutions in our tech stack including ASP.Net, MVC, C#, SQL.
• Collaborate with a team of peers, applying agile practices such as pair programming and code reviews.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as planning and refinement.
• Collaborate with product, development, and test specialists to model solutions for development.
• Participate in exploratory work such as spikes to explore new technology, patterns, and opportunities.
• Diagnose and resolve third line support issues.

Software Design

• Develop to maintainability standards
• Develop to security standards

Handling Data

• Develop to agreed data access patterns, including Entity Framework and migrations.

Skills, experience, and attributes:

Essential Skills: ASP.NET Core MVC, C#, SQL and Entity Framework

Desirable Skills: Familiarity with Telerik Kendo UI, Familiarity with Single Page Applications (SPA), Typescript with jQuery, Microsoft Azure

Benefits:

• 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days)
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave
• AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health
• Broadband allowance
• Home office stipend
• Life assurance (4 x basic salary)
• Encouraged and funded CPD