Digital Products -Junior Software Engineer

Job title:

Digital Products -Junior Software Engineer

Company

Xodus Group

Job description

Company: Xodus is a global energy consultancy powered by the expertise and experience of our unique and diverse people. We unite to solve the energy industry’s problems. Working collaboratively with our customers, rethinking how things are done to take on challenges, break down barriers, enable progress and deliver the energy transition. We bring energy, insight, and certainty, which when combined with our strategies, innovations, and knowledge, gives us the power to create change within our industry and really make a difference.Team: Within the Digital Technology department, the Digital Products team is responsible for designing, building, maintaining and supporting client facing online tools and services. Digital tools have always been a core part of Xodus (for more than 18 years) and we are now expanding our team to continue the growth of our newly rebuilt modern XAMIN web-based platform. XAMIN is the home of all our asset data management products, each of which is designed to modernise a different operational task for our Energy Industry clients and partners globally.Role: As a member of the growing Xodus Software Development team, you will work alongside your colleagues and Product Owners across our global locations to produce innovative, robust and well thought out digital solutions that will change the energy industry. The role encompasses all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle from design, build, testing and onto deployment and support.Ideal candidates for this role will strive to be part of an active member of a team that deliver timely, quality software solutions to business problems. They will be able to demonstrate their approach (and any relevant experience) to successfully design, build and release of web-based applications. This role is specifically targeted at people early in their Software Development careers, with additional resources and support for learning, hands-on experience and career progression.Location: we are flexible on location (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Orkney and London)RequirementsPrimary Responsibilities:

• Agile development of modern Angular, C#. NET web applications
• Liaising with product owners, project teams and customers to analyse and understand user requirements.
• Creating and reviewing design documentation and providing development estimates.
• Writing well designed, testable and efficient code that complies with industry and company standards.
• Performing testing and supporting end-to-end and user testing.
• Troubleshooting, problem solving, 2nd line support for system issues, escalating appropriately.
• Learning from fellow team-members and online training resources.

Supplemental Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and improving legacy VB.NET web applications by identifying areas of improvement and building updated replacements.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with the internal infrastructure and support teams.
• Researching and prototyping new innovative technologies and approaches to improve the quality and efficiency of our platforms and processes.
• Embody our three core values of Trust, Responsibility and Excellence.

Role Requirements:

• A software development qualification (degree or equivalent)
• A successful candidate will have strong understanding of:
• the Software Development Lifecycle.
• web security and building applications that do not expose sensitive data.
• UI, browser compatibility and general web functions.
• Agile software delivery methodologies.

• Demonstratable experience of:
• web development technologies on personal, professional or educational projects.
• database querying, development and maintenance
• use of source control systems.

• Proactive personality – with a can-do attitude and willingness work with a team at all levels, learning, absorbing and applying new information, skills, techniques and knowledge.
• Strong communicator – able to explain to document clearly and share information with others.
• Must be thorough and pay attention to detail to ensure quality software delivery, testing and maintenance.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience in any of the technologies listed below (or similar):
• C#.NET (ideally .NET Core), Angular
• VB.NET, ASP.NET
• Automated build & deploy (Azure Dev Ops)
• Web APIs (REST)
• Front-end framework experience (Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular, Telerik/Kendo)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, JSON
• SQL

NB: as this is a junior role in the team, we do not expect a candidate to have all/any of the experience listed but we want candidates to be aware of the technologies we use and successful candidates will be able to explain how they might approach learning and adopting these (with our support).

• Agile methodology experience, particularly SCRUM and KANBAN.
• Experience with receiving, prioritising and resolving customer support issues.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Cash Plan Benefit
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme

How we workThis role can be based in any of our UK offices and the hours can be worked flexibly across the week.Xodus employees attend the office at least twice a week and have the freedom to work flexibly.Our Commitment to Diversity and InclusionXodus is committed to promoting an equitable, diverse, and inclusive culture where everyone has a strong sense of belonging and can be themselves at work. We believe diversity drives innovation and we continually work to grow our network of people to give us the chance to be the best company that we can.We promote the freedom to work flexibly by empowering people with the autonomy to choose where and when to work and providing them with the technology to be connected to colleagues.Our Commitment to WellbeingXodus is committed to providing a healthy working environment and strives to continuously improve the quality of working life of our employees, their families and others who work closing with us. We do this through the integration of wellbeing throughout all business activities, to create a working environment and culture that is compatible to the wellbeing of all our colleagues.Apply for this roleIf this interests you or you know someone who would be suitable for the role, apply for the position or share with your network. We understand that some candidates may only apply if they meet all the criteria for the role, however, we all continue to learn so please consider applying as you may well have the skills and experience, we are looking for.Please apply by clicking ‘apply for this job’ or email at recruitment@xodusgroup.comWe look forward to receiving your application!

Expected salary

Location

Aberdeen

Job date

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:43:44 GMT

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