Developer in Chatham

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Bradford, Chatham, Petersfield

Working Pattern: Hybrid (usually a couple of days a week in the office). We welcome part‑time and flexible arrangements and will aim to match your current flexibility where possible.

What We Offer:

• Holidays: 25 days (rising to 30) + buy/sell up to 5 days + swap up to 4 bank holidays.
• Pension: Up to 10% employer contribution.
• Family Leave: Enhanced maternity and 4 weeks’ paternity from day‑one, shared parental leave, paid neonatal care leave and support for adoption and surrogacy.
• Fertility Support: Paid time off for fertility treatment and appointments, available to birth parents and partners, with confidential support and flexible adjustments where needed.
• Workations: Work abroad for up to 20 days a year in approved countries.
• Birthday Leave: Your birthday off—paid.
• Volunteering: 2 paid volunteering days.
• Learning: Access to LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.
• Financial Wellbeing: Free Snoop Premium subscription.
• Healthcare: Self‑pay Denplan & optional Private Medical Insurance.

Role:

The role will involve contributing strong application development skills and hands‑on commercial software development experience to the design, build, and delivery of high‑quality software solutions. Working as a developer within a high‑performing Agile team, you will play an active role across the full development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and delivered to a high standard while collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver and support software solutions: Implement enhancements and new capabilities, investigate and resolve defects (including live issues), and provide build scripts/packages for deployment across all environments.
• Operate effectively in Agile delivery: Contribute actively within Agile teams, attend ceremonies, provide timely updates in Agile tools, and adhere to agreed toolsets and delivery standards.
• Maintain technical quality and governance: Follow SDLC methodologies, apply branch/merge strategies, unit testing approaches, peer reviews, pair programming, and active documentation.
• Ensure collaboration and continuous improvement: Provide and receive peer code reviews, identify and champion process improvements, and contribute to technical standards.
• Mentor and lead by example: Coach and support colleagues, fostering best practices and high‑performing team behaviours.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in enterprise software delivery, using technologies such as Salesforce (Visualforce, Apex, Triggers, Lightning), .NET Core (C#), MuleSoft, OpenAPI/RAML, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Strong systems integration expertise, with hands‑on experience designing and consuming APIs and a solid understanding of relational database concepts and data modelling.
• Proven delivery in fast‑paced environments, supporting frequent releases to live systems, with sound knowledge of CI pipelines and unit testing practices.
• Experienced Agile team member, comfortable working in iterative delivery teams with regular ceremonies and collaboration.
• Excellent professional skills, including clear written and verbal communication, ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and rigorous attention to detail.

Equal Opportunities:

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value everyone’s unique background, identity and experience, and we’re committed to a workplace where all colleagues can thrive.