Role: Lead Software Developer

Location: Southampton (hybrid available)

Salary: Competitive

We have the opportunity for a well-motivated Lead Software Developer to join AVASK. You will be required to undertake technical and architectural duties to drive forward the roadmap of the software department and mentor the team.

You will continuously review working processes / platforms / languages / documentation to ensure best practice and industry-standard methods are being followed.

You will gather technical requirements (workshops) from in-house departments specifications and the SME, responding to bugs and feature requests to continuously improve the software product and to organise these requests into coding sprints for CI/CD with the Scrum Master and Project Coordinator.

You will have experience of CI/CD/DevOps/Scrum/Agile management methodologies in DevOps and Azure.

You will have excellent programming skills in high-level language C# and a desire to be involved in development day-to-day in and out of the sprint cycle. You will have knowledge of web-service APIs (REST, JSON, XML) and integration techniques for external packages/libraries.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Software Manager when developing and support in-house web applications.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and propose the use of new technologies within role scope.
• Provide support to Developers.
• Write proof of concepts when researching new technologies and coding.
• Manage and maintain environments and deployment both manual and pipeline on DevOps.

Essential skills, knowledge, and experience:

• At least 10 years working experience in a development environment
• C#
• Blazor Preferred and advantageous (Razor, MVC or similar Web Technologies)
• RestFUL APIs
• Azure storage (queues / blobs / data tables).
• Azure DevOps
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• GitHub
• Experience with SignalR
• Experience with Postman API tool

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience

• Mediator Pattern Architecture
• SQL
• Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
• Terraform

What youll get in return:

• 22 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays with the option of purchasing up to 5 extra days through salary sacrifice.
• Birthday off after 1 year length of service.
• Pension scheme with Royal London with employee contributions of minimum 5% and employer contributions of 3%.
• A collaborative culture of continuous learning with Learning and Development opportunities for career progression, alongside support with professional qualifications where applicable.
• Private Healthcare Insurance with Vitality Health care after completing probationary period.
• Cycle2Work scheme available through salary sacrifice.
• DIS (Death in service) available after completing probationary period.
• Creative spacious offices with breakout areas, and subsidised canteen with Chef offering freshly cooked breakfast and lunches.

ABOUT AVASKAVASK

Accounting & Business Consultants is a rapidly expanding firm that specialises in international VAT and tax and accounting for e-commerce businesses that are located internationally and in the UK.

AVASK are recommended External Tax Advisors under the Amazon Global Selling Programme and assist hundreds of Amazon FBA sellers, eBay, Shopify and many other platforms. On top of this, it provides its clients with a comprehensive range of expertise - from providing practical guidance on cross-border transactions, making sure that they are fully compliant and assisting on their group structures and tax advisory services. #PRL