Software Engineer (Product Development)

Job Description

Background
Bridgeall is the longest-serving software company in the UK deregulated water markets. We designed and developed the central systems in the Scottish market and the market settlements system in the English market. We also develop and maintain trevi, our own suite software products for both markets. Our trevi product family comprises of solutions for wholesale charge forecasting and revenue recovery and a market-leading water billing solution.

The trevi products are built using the latest Microsoft Azure technologies and as a software engineer you will be expected to maintain and supplement the applications with new features and enhancements. You will also be expected to frequently liaise with customers to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction are maintained, and to resolve client issues when these arise.

Purpose
Ensure that client expectations are met and exceeded in terms of software and service.

Salary
Up to £45,000 + bonus + pension + private health care

Essential Job Functions
Elicit and document customer needs and requirements
Communicate directly with customers for development or support activities
Investigate and resolve complex data issues for customers
Advise customers on best use of product to maximise value
Full lifecycle and agile application development;
Designing and coding of applications
Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD);
Front end graphical user interface design;
Software testing
Performance tuning and improvement
Support and maintenance of developed software
Documenting software functionality;
Integration of developed software with existing systems;
Comply with and develop company standards and guidelines

General Requirements
Essential
Minimum of 5 years software development experience
Degree level education
Provide accurate estimates for development tasks
Good presentation skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Personally motivated to develop your skills
Work well within a team, sharing information and helping others when required
Analytical approach to problem solving
High attention to detail & consistently following procedure
Excellent customer service skills
Ability to multitask, work under pressure & meet deadlines
Flexible approach to time management

Desirable
Minimum of 2 years dealing directly with customers
Ideally, knowledge of the processes and transactions in the English and/or Scottish non-household water markets
Experience of developing products or custom applications in the UK Utilities sector

Technical Skills
Essential
Minimum of 3 years of experience in each of the following (unless otherwise stated):
C#
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Core (2 years)
.Net (Core, latterly .Net 6) (2 years)
Database schema design (2 years)
HTML
CSS
JavaScript (1 year)
Visual Studio
Microsoft Azure Services (2 years)
Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure AD B2C
Azure SQL (1 year)
SQL Management Studio (2 years)

Desirable
Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)
Test Driven Development
Agile/SCRUM
Selenium and/or other automated testing tools
jQuery
VueJS and/or React
KQL (Kusto Query Language)
Azure Data Factory