Role: Back End Developer (Junior to Mid)

Team | Reporting To: Product Development | Head of Engineering

Location: London / Hybrid / Remote (UK)

Type: Full time / Permanent

About us:

Connectr is for businesses where people belong. Connectr helps build a sense of belonging with all people, from candidates to employees, and creates a culture where everyone is included.

Through Connectr’s products and services, we put the ‘human’ back in HR and deliver a new way to form human connections, turn D&I strategy into reality, and build an engagement and mentoring platform that people love to use.

We are an award-winning, mission-locked company. We believe every person should have equal power and opportunity to shape their future, regardless of their background. Connectr works with over 40 employer partners, and last year supported over 40,000 people to take their next career steps.

Connectr champions an inclusive, respectful, and creative culture for our own people. We show care and candour in everything we do. We embrace new ideas, take calculated risks, communicate openly and proudly deliver our shared mission.
 

About the role:

As our Back End Developer, you’ll take pride in ensuring that our products are exceeding expectations and offering our users a brilliant experience. Working with some awesome tech - including .NET 6, GraphQL APIs, Docker & AWS - you'll be joining us as we grow the team and drive innovation. We will expect you to be an excellent collaborator, using your expertise to understand and solve user problems, challenge existing thinking and help others on the team do the same. We are a friendly and supportive team and sharing knowledge, through peer reviews and pairing, is the key to our success.

Key responsibilities: 

• Work as part of a Product engineering team to deliver new applications and features, and improve and fix existing software

• Understand business requirements and write clean, tested, maintainable code that meets acceptance criteria

• Continually aim to improve technical ability through a combination of pairing and self-directed learning

• Support & help other engineers to improve their knowledge, skills and processes through pairing, mentoring and code reviews

• Work and contribute to agreed standards and procedures 

Skills/Experience

Essential

• .NET C# - ideally with experience of at least Core 3.1
• Entity Framework Code-first or other ORM
• SQL Server
• Experience building and maintaining APIs (REST or GraphQL)
• Version control (Git)
• Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) 
  

Desirable

• AWS (RDS, S3, K8s)
• Testing mindset
• Experience of working in a CI/CD team
• Experience of developing web applications in a commercial environment
  

Qualifications

• Relevant professional experience/code school/degree in Computer Science or allied subject 
  
  

Your benefits:

• Internal mentoring scheme and career development
• Learning and development budget
• Volunteer days and ways to give back to our communities
• Flexible and remote working
• Reduced summer hours
• Enhanced maternity cover and paternity leave
• Wellbeing allowance, including an Airbnb wellbeing mini-break twice a year
• Competitive salary and annual review
• Company share options
• Team socials
  

Connectr’s commitment:
Connectr is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diverse companies are more innovative and better positioned to succeed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.